Memory is the most contended and least elastic resource in datacenter servers today.
Applications can use only local memory—which may be scarce—even though memory …

The microservice architecture is a popular software engineering approach for building
flexible, large-scale online services. Serverless functions, or function as a service (FaaS) …

Memory disaggregation has attracted great attention recently because of its benefits in
efficient memory utilization and ease of management. So far, memory disaggregation …

The conventional wisdom is that CPU resources such as cores, caches, and memory
bandwidth must be partitioned to achieve performance isolation between tasks. Both the …

Emerging Multicore SoC SmartNICs, enclosing rich computing resources (eg, a multicore
processor, onboard DRAM, accelerators, programmable DMA engines), hold the potential to …

Datacenter systems and I/O devices now run at single-digit microsecond latencies, requiring
ns-scale operating systems. Traditional kernel-based operating systems impose an …

This paper presents our design and experience with a microkernel-inspired approach to
host networking called Snap. Snap is a userspace networking system that supports Google's …

Resource-disaggregated architectures have risen in popularity for large datacenters.
However, prior disaggregation systems are designed for native applications; in addition, all …

Far memory systems allow an application to transparently access local memory as well as
memory belonging to remote machines. Fault tolerance is a critical property of any practical …

Serverless computing has seen rapid growth due to the ease-of-use and cost-efficiency it
provides. However, function scheduling, a critical component of serverless systems, has …