Distributed in-memory key-value (KV) stores are embracing the disaggregated memory (DM)
architecture for higher resource utilization. However, existing KV stores on DM employ …

SmartNICs have recently emerged as an appealing device for accelerating distributed
systems. However, there has not been a comprehensive characterization of SmartNICs, and …

Responding to the" datacenter tax" and" killer microseconds" problems for memory-intensive
datacenter applications, diverse solutions including Smart NIC-based ones have been …

Recent years have witnessed the wide adoption of RDMA in the cloud to accelerate first-
party workloads and achieve cost savings by freeing up CPU cycles. Now cloud providers …

The efficiency of distributed shared memory (DSM) has been greatly improved by recent
hardware technologies. But, the difficulty of distributed memory management can still be a …

The sharing of clusters with various on-NIC offloads by high-level entities (users, containers,
etc.) has become increasingly common. Performance isolation across these entities is …

RDMA-enabled remote memory (RM) systems are gaining popularity with improved memory
utilization and elasticity. However, since it is commonly believed that fine-grained RDMA …

Hypervisors have played a critical role in cloud security, but they introduce a large trusted
computing base (TCB) and incur a heavy performance tax. As of late, hypervisor offloading …

Relational databases have gone through a phase of architectural transition from a
monolithic to a distributed architecture to take full advantage of cloud technology. These …

We propose logical memory pools, a memory disaggregation architecture for the emerging
Compute Express Link (CXL) technology in datacenters. The key idea is to create a memory …