This looks pretty cool...
*** HPC News *** Solarflare turns network adapters into servers When a CPU just isn't fast enough http://www.theregister.co.uk/2012/02/08/solarflare_application_onload_engine/ Solarflare, a maker of 10 Gigabit Ethernet server adapter cards for performance-obsessed companies like stock exchanges, hedge funds, and supercomputer centers, is turning its network interface cards into servers, more or less. Solarflare is doing this by adding field programmable gate arrays (FPGAs) to the NICs and special software to onload calculations and algorithms from servers to those FPGAs. ----
