Elena Agostini

Elena Agostini is a senior software engineer at NVIDIA. She received her Ph.D. in computer science and engineering from the University of Rome “La Sapienza” in collaboration with the National Research Council of Italy. Her research interests include high-performance interconnects, GPUDirect technologies, network protocols, fast packet processing and DOCA. Elena's current focus is on the NVIDIA GPUDirect technologies applied to the NVIDIA DOCA framework. She is also a DPDK contributor.
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Posts by Elena Agostini

Networking / Communications Oct 06, 2026

How DOCA GPUNetIO Unifies GPU-Initiated Networking Across the NVIDIA Software Stack

GPU applications increasingly need networking and data movement to behave like first-class GPU-controlled operations rather than host-driven services. When the... 19 MIN READ
Networking / Communications Jun 13, 2024

Unlocking GPU-Accelerated RDMA with NVIDIA DOCA GPUNetIO

NVIDIA DOCA GPUNetIO is a library within the NVIDIA DOCA SDK, specifically designed for real-time inline GPU packet processing. It combines technologies like... 11 MIN READ
Data Center / Cloud Jul 24, 2023

Realizing the Power of Real-Time Network Processing with NVIDIA DOCA GPUNetIO

Real-time processing of network traffic can be leveraged by the high degree of parallelism GPUs offer. Optimizing packet acquisition or transmission in these... 14 MIN READ
Networking / Communications Dec 14, 2022

Inline GPU Packet Processing with NVIDIA DOCA GPUNetIO

This post was updated May 8, 2023. A growing number of network applications need to exercise GPU real-time packet processing in order to implement high data... 19 MIN READ
Simulation / Modeling / Design Apr 28, 2022

Boosting Inline Packet Processing Using DPDK and GPUdev with GPUs

The inline processing of network packets using GPUs is a packet-analysis technique useful to a number of different application domains: signal processing,... 14 MIN READ