Prekas, GeorgeBelay, AdamPrimorac, MiaKlimovic, AnaGrossman, SamuelKogias, MariosGütermann, BernardKozyrakis, ChristosBugnion, Edouard2016-05-272016-05-272016-05-272016https://infoscience.epfl.ch/handle/20.500.14299/126357This Technical Report provides the deployment and evaluation guide of the IX dataplane operating system, as of its first open-source release on May 27, 2016. To facilitate the reproduction of our results, we include in this report the precise steps needed to install, deploy and configure IX and its workloads. We reproduce all benchmarks previously published in two peer-reviewed publications at OSDI '14 and SoCC '15 using this up-to-date, open-source code base.text::report