The monolithic server model where a server is the unit of deployment, operation, and failure
is meeting its limits in the face of several recent hardware and application trends. To improve …

We propose an intuitive abstraction for a process to export its memory to remote hosts, and
to access the memory exported by others. This abstraction provides a simpler interface to …

Recent advancements in high-performance networking interconnect significantly narrow the
performance gap between intra-node and inter-node communications, and open up …

Storage systems in data centers are an important component of large-scale online services.
They typically perform replicated transactional operations for high data availability and …

Persistent memory is a new tier of memory that functions as a hybrid of traditional storage
systems and main memory. It combines the benefits of both: the data persistence of storage …

Network switches are an attractive vantage point to serve various network applications and
functions such as load balancing and virtual switching because of their in-network location …

Emerging non-volatile memories (NVM), such as phase change memory (PCM) and
Resistive RAM (ReRAM), incorporate the features of fast byte-addressability and data …

During the past decade, network and storage devices have undergone rapid performance
improvements, delivering ultra-low latency and several Gbps of bandwidth. Nevertheless …

For promising performance boost, recent trends of modern data centers tend to use
Persistent Memory (PM) as storage and utilize the one-sided feature of Remote Direct …

While disaggregation has been successfully used for more than two decades to separate
storage from compute (ie, SAN/NAS systems), disaggregating tightly coupled resources like …