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Intel® QuickAssist Technology (Intel® QAT)

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Overview

As the complexity of applications continues to grow, systems need more and more computational resources for workloads, including cryptography and data compression.

The drivers and patches offered here assist application developers to take advantage of Intel® QuickAssist Integrated Accelerator that is offered with platforms based on Intel processors.

 

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Intel QAT Drivers

Linux* Hardware v2.0

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Quick Start Guide
Intel QAT Software for Linux—Web Documentation: Hardware v2.0
Intel QAT Software for Linux—Getting Started Guide: Hardware v2.0
Intel QAT Software for Linux—Programmer's Guide: Hardware v2.0
Intel QAT Software for Linux—Release Notes: Hardware v2.0
Intel QAT Software for Linux—Getting Started Guide: Hardware v1.x Customer Enabling (CE) Release
Intel QAT Software for Linux—Programmer's Guide: Hardware v1.x CE Release
Intel QAT Software for Linux—Release Notes: Hardware v1.x CE Release
Cryptographic API Reference Manual
Data Compression API Reference Manual
Combined Cryptographic and Compression API Reference Manual
Intel® QuickAssist Technology for Windows – API Guide

Virtualization, Containers, and Orchestration

Intel QAT Plug-in for Kubernetes*
Run Intel QAT on a Bare-Metal Kubernetes Cluster (GitHub)

Applications and Libraries Enabled for Intel QAT

Intel QAT Engine (GitHub)
Intel QAT for Java* (GitHub)
Sample Patch for NGINX
QATzip
Codec for Big Data (Apache Hadoop* & Apache Spark*)

Case Studies & Solutions Briefs

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Internet Engineering Task Force (IETF) QUIC Acceleration Using Intel® QAT
Intel QAT Performance on 4th Gen Intel® Xeon® Processors: Microsoft SQL Server* 2022 Backup Compression
Intel® QuickAssist Technology ZSTD Plugin—An External Sequence Producer for Zstd
Accelerate the Exploration of the Value of Genomic Data with Intel QAT
Predictable and Scalable Architecture Using Intel Xeon Scalable Processors
Accelerate HAProxy* with Intel QAT
QZFS: Accelerated Compression from Intel QAT in a File System for Application-Agnostic, Cost-Efficient Data Storage

 

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