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- Real-time kernel and hypervisor
- Single Root I/O Virtualization (SR-IOV)
- CPU Pinning
- NUMA Awareness
- Huge Pages
- PCIe Passthrough (Example: GPUs, FPGA etc..)
- Resource Director Technology (DDR bandwidth allocation, Cache size allocation etc..)
- Accelerated virtual switch using Data Plan Development Kit (DPDK)
- Accelerated virtual switch using smartNIC
- Cryptography accelerators such as AES-NI, SIMD/AVX, QAT
- Random Data Generation using native instructions such as RDRAND
- Compression Accelerators such as QAT
- Data Plane VNF acceleration
- Security features such as TPM, SGX
- Hardened Kernel and Hypervisor
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