The demand-led growth of datacenter networks has
meant that many constituent technologies are beyond the budget
of the research community. In order to make and validate
timely and relevant research contributions, the wider research
community requires accessible evaluation, experimentation and
demonstration environments with specification comparable to
the subsystems of the most massive datacenter networks. We
present NetFPGA SUME, an FPGA-based PCIe board with I/O
capabilities for 100Gb/s operation as NIC, multiport switch,
firewall, or test/measurement environment. As a powerful new
NetFPGA platform, SUME provides an accessible development
environment that both reuses existing codebases and enables new
designs.This work was jointly supported by EPSRC INTERNET
Project EP/H040536/1, National Science Foundation under
Grant No. CNS-0855268, and Defense Advanced Research
Projects Agency (DARPA) and Air Force Research Laboratory (AFRL), under contract FA8750-11-C-0249.This is the author accepted manuscript. The final version is available from IEEE at http://ieeexplore.ieee.org/xpl/articleDetails.jsp?arnumber=6866035&sortType%3Dasc_p_Sequence%26filter%3DAND%28p_IS_Number%3A5210076%29