… We propose a new Exokernel-like layer to allow mutually untrusting physically deployed
services to efficiently share the resources of a data center. We believe that such a layer offers …

… the data center while allowing resources to move back and forth between them. We take an
Exokernel-… With HIL, we partition physical hardware and connectivity, while enabling direct …

… Hill, P. Desnoyers, and O. Krieger, “Hil: Designing an exokernel for the data center,” 2016,
submitted to ACM Symposium on Cloud Computing (SoCC 16). [6] A. Turk, RS Gudimetla, EU …

… M2 DESIGN When designing M2 we first listed the set of features we … HIL is a lightweight
Pythonbased layer-2 bare-metal isolation framework that orchestrates allocation of data center …

… and mutually non-trusting tenants of the Data Center. ESI enables the borrowing tenant to …
design of such a layer, called the Hardware Isolation Layer (HIL), which adopts an Exokernel…

… The Exokernel is a tiny kernel that implements only resource … Our current design optimizes
performance and minimizes … n frontends in different data centers to collect and forward client …

… can obtain in their own private data centers. It allows tenants to … This principle has a number
of implications for our design. … We designed HIL, for example, to be a simple micro-service …

… eg, because memory capacity is oftentimes the bottleneck resource in today’s datacenters
[7… We design and implement such support for InfiniBand and Ethernet NICs and show that it …

… over wide area networks with end systems in data centers will be possible. 2) Northeast …
HIL: Designing an exokernel for the data center. In Proceedings of the 7th ACM Symposium …

… The Exokernel [13] introduced the library operating system structure — where system … ,
Chris Hill, Peter Desnoyers, and Orran Krieger. HIL: Designing an Exokernel for the Data Center. …