Office of Corporate Research, Technology, and Innovation Management (HRTM)

This fact sheet provides and overview of the Office of Corporate Research, Technology, and Innovation Management (HRTM) division of Turner-Fairbank Highway Research Center (TFHRC). HRTM oversees a national highway research agenda that closes critical knowledge gaps, identifies collaboration opportunities, and accelerates the deployment of innovations and technologies. The office\u2019s key responsibilities include providing strategic direction and coordination for the Federal Highway Administration\u2019s (FHWA) research agenda and programs, implementing research innovations, and communicating research results

Enterprise Client Management with Internet Suspend/Resume

Internet Suspend/Resume (ISR) is an exciting new model for managing client machines in the enterprise. ISR provides the administrative benefits of central management without sacrificing the performance benefits of thick-client, personal computing. This capability is made possible through the novel combination of two wellunderstood technologies: virtual machines and distributed storage management

Scaling up: a research agenda for software engineering

The following excerpts have been gleaned from a report by the Computer Science and Technology Board that summarizes the deliberations of a group of software engineers participating in a CSTB workshop that focused on setting research priorities.</jats:p

Addressing TCP/IP processing challenges using the IA and IXP processors

The majority of datacenter applications such as web services, e-commerce, storage, and firewall use Transmission Control Protocol/Internet Protocol (TCP/IP) as the data communication protocol of choice. As such, the performance of these applications is largely dependent upon the efficient processing of TCP/IP packets. In addition, with the arrival of the 10 Gigabit Ethernet, the TCP/IP packet processing needs to become faster and more efficient to let the applications benefit from higher bandwidths. Motivated by this, the material presented in this paper focuses on (a) network bandwidth and the associated TCP/IP processing requirements of typical datacenter applications, (b) challenges of scaling TCP/IP packet processing to 10 Gigabit speeds, and (c) exploring to what extent these challenges can be addressed by the Intel IA32 and IXP network processors. We also discuss potential techniques that further help TCP/IP processing