It is commonly believed that datacenter networking software must sacrifice generality to
attain high performance. The popularity of specialized distributed systems designed …

Remote Procedure Calls are widely used to connect datacenter applications with strict tail-
latency service level objectives in the scale of μs. Existing solutions utilize streaming or …

As one of the fundamental infrastructures for cloud computing, data center networks (DCN)
have recently been studied extensively. We currently use pure software-based systems …

The emerging paradigm of microservices decomposes online services into fine-grained
software modules frequently communicating over the datacenter network, often using …

Datacenter workloads have evolved from the data intensive, loosely-coupled workloads of
the past decade to more tightly coupled ones, wherein ultra-low latency communication is …

RDMA is expected to be highly scalable: to perform well in large-scale data center networks
where packet losses are inevitable (ie, high network scalability), and to support a large …

We present the nanoPU, a new NIC-CPU co-design to accelerate an increasingly pervasive
class of datacenter applications: those that utilize many small Remote Procedure Calls …

Cloud platform services must simultaneously be scalable, meet low tail latency service-level
objectives, and be resilient to a combination of software, hardware, and network failures …

The importance of minimizing flow completion times (FCT) in datacenters has led to a
growing literature on new network transport designs. Of particular note is pFabric, a protocol …

Modern datacenter networks provide very high capacity via redundant Clos topologies and
low switch latency, but transport protocols rarely deliver matching performance. We present …