NDN-DPDK works with a number of hardware devices. This page lists some hardware known to work with NDN-DPDK. Note that this is not a complete list.
NDN-DPDK only works on x86_64 (amd64) architecture. See DPDK getting started guide for Linux for system requirements of DPDK. In particular, SSE 4.2 instruction set is required.
The developers have tested NDN-DPDK on servers with one, two, and four NUMA sockets.
Default configuration of NDN-DPDK requires at least 6 CPU cores (total) and 8 GB hugepages memory (per NUMA socket). With a custom configuration, NDN-DPDK might work on 2 CPU cores and 2 GB memory, albeit at reduced performance; see performance tuning "lcore allocation" and "memory usage insights" for some hints on how to do so.
Generally, you should allow at least 1 GB memory on NUMA socket 0 and on each NUMA socket where you have Ethernet adapters that you want to use with PCI driver. DPDK device drivers are not well-tested when they cannot allocate memory on NUMA socket 0 or the NUMA socket of the PCI device. In that case, you would see "Cannot allocate memory" error in NDN-DPDK service logs.
See Ethernet adapters known to work.
NDN-DPDK can use NVMe storage device as forwarder Content Store expansion. It can work with most NVMe devices.
Best efficiency is achieved on a NVMe controller that supports "scatter-gather lists" (SGLs) feature.
Run nvme id-ctrl -H /dev/nvme0 and look at "sgls" field to identify this feature.