Infrastructure Processing (IPUs): Not Regular Computer Chips ###loading Intensive Infrastructure Tasks Giving CPUs a BreatherHey, remember those marathon you used to do back in school days Imagine if there was a who would take half the distance for you, so you could save your breath for the last few meters That's what an Infrastructure Processing Unit orPU does for Central Processing (CPUs) in the cyber realm These IPUs are hardware accelerators designed to the burden of compute-intensive infrastructure tasks, effectively reducing the pressure on CPUs. In a way, they save the day for CPUs, like Superman does when Lois Lane is in distress. You may wonder about these compute-intensive infrastructure tasks. Let's simplify: packet processing, traffic shaping, and virtual switching are among them. Ever stuck in a terrible traffic jam, where everyone is honking their horns, bringing out the worst road rage in you? Yeah, that's how your CPU would feel if it were to handle these ta...