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Proceedings of the 25th annual international symposium on Computer architecture
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Supercomputing '96 Proceedings of the 1996 ACM/IEEE conference on Supercomputing
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ICPP '04 Proceedings of the 2004 International Conference on Parallel Processing
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SAINT '07 Proceedings of the 2007 International Symposium on Applications and the Internet
Dual Processor Performance Characterization for XML Application-Oriented Networking
ICPP '07 Proceedings of the 2007 International Conference on Parallel Processing
Performance Characterization of a Dual Quad-Core Based Application Oriented Networking System
NAS '08 Proceedings of the 2008 International Conference on Networking, Architecture, and Storage
Shared memory multiprocessor architectures for software IP routers
IEEE Transactions on Parallel and Distributed Systems
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There is a growing trend to insert application intelligence into network devices. Processors in this type of Application Oriented Networking (AON) devices are required to handle both packet-level network I/O intensive operations as well as XML message-level CPU intensive operations. In this paper, we investigate the performance effect of symmetric multi-processing (SMP) via (1) hardware multi-threading, (2) uni-processor to dual-processor architectures, and (3) single to dual and quad core processing, on both packet-level and XML message-level traffic. We use AON systems based on Intel Xeon processors with hyperthreading, Pentium M based dual-core processors, and Intel's dual quad-core Xeon E5335 processors. We analyze and cross-examine the SMP effect from both highlevel performance as well as processor microarchitectural perspectives. The evaluation results will not only provide insight to microprocessor designers, but also help system architects of AON types of device to select the right processors.