P-Socket: optimizing a communication library for a PCIe-based intra-rack interconnect

L Zhang, R Hou, SA McKee, J Dong… - Proceedings of the ACM …, 2016 - dl.acm.org
Data centers require efficient, low-cost, flexible interconnects to manage the rapidly growing
internal traffic generated by an increasingly diverse set of applications. To meet these …

Bridging the gap between applications and networks in data centers

P Costa - ACM SIGOPS Operating Systems Review, 2013 - dl.acm.org
Modern data centers host tens (if not hundreds) of thousands of servers and are used by
companies such as Amazon, Google, and Microsoft to provide online services to millions of …

[PDF][PDF] Sharing the data center network

A Shieh, S Kandula, A Greenberg, C Kim… - 8th USENIX Symposium …, 2011 - usenix.org
While today's data centers are multiplexed across many non-cooperating applications, they
lack effective means to share their network. Relying on TCP's congestion control, as we …

[PDF][PDF] Ripcord: A modular platform for data center networking

M Casado, D Erickson, IA Ganichev… - … University of California …, 2010 - academia.edu
Data centers present many interesting challenges, such as extreme scalability, location
independence of workload, fault-tolerant operation, and server migration. While many data …

DCTCP: Efficient packet transport for the commoditized data center

M Alizadeh, A Greenberg, D Maltz, J Padhye, P Patel… - 2010 - microsoft.com
Cloud data centers host diverse applications, mixing in the same network a plethora of
workflows that require small predictable latency with others requiring large sustained …

RepNet: Cutting latency with flow replication in data center networks

S Liu, H Xu, L Liu, W Bai, K Chen… - IEEE Transactions on …, 2018 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Data center networks need to provide low latency, especially at the tail, as demanded by
many interactive applications. To improve tail latency, existing approaches require …

RepNet: Cutting tail latency in data center networks with flow replication

S Liu, W Bai, H Xu, K Chen, Z Cai - arXiv preprint arXiv:1407.1239, 2014 - arxiv.org
Data center networks need to provide low latency, especially at the tail, as demanded by
many interactive applications. To improve tail latency, existing approaches require …

Attaining the promise and avoiding the pitfalls of {TCP} in the datacenter

G Judd - 12th USENIX Symposium on Networked Systems …, 2015 - usenix.org
Over the last several years, datacenter computing has become a pervasive part of the
computing landscape. In spite of the success of the datacenter computing paradigm, there …

VL2: a scalable and flexible data center network

A Greenberg, JR Hamilton, N Jain, S Kandula… - Communications of the …, 2011 - dl.acm.org
To be agile and cost effective, data centers must allow dynamic resource allocation across
large server pools. In particular, the data center network should provide a simple flat …

A scalable, commodity data center network architecture

M Al-Fares, A Loukissas, A Vahdat - ACM SIGCOMM computer …, 2008 - dl.acm.org
Today's data centers may contain tens of thousands of computers with significant aggregate
bandwidth requirements. The network architecture typically consists of a tree of routing and …