Characterizing Off-path {SmartNIC} for Accelerating Distributed Systems

X Wei, R Cheng, Y Yang, R Chen, H Chen - 17th USENIX Symposium …, 2023 - usenix.org
SmartNICs have recently emerged as an appealing device for accelerating distributed
systems. However, there has not been a comprehensive characterization of SmartNICs, and …

Dds: Dpu-optimized disaggregated storage

Q Zhang, P Bernstein, B Chandramouli, J Hu… - arXiv preprint arXiv …, 2024 - arxiv.org
This extended report presents DDS, a novel disaggregated storage architecture enabled by
emerging networking hardware, namely DPUs (Data Processing Units). DPUs can optimize …

Zero-sided RDMA: Network-driven Data Shuffling for Disaggregated Heterogeneous Cloud DBMSs

M Jasny, L Thostrup, S Tamimi, A Koch… - Proceedings of the …, 2024 - dl.acm.org
In this paper, we present a novel communication scheme called zero-sided RDMA, enabling
data exchange as a native network service using a programmable switch. In contrast to one …

MTDA: Efficient and Fair DPU Offloading Method for Multiple Tenants

Z Huang, Y Tan, Y Zhu, H Tan… - IEEE Transactions on …, 2024 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
In modern cloud computing environment, the offloading potential of DPU must be fully
exploited for multiple tenants. Existing DPU offloading techniques lack the capability to …

Battle of the BlueFields: An In-Depth Comparison of the BlueField-2 and BlueField-3 SmartNICs

B Michalowicz, KK Suresh, H Subramoni… - … IEEE Symposium on …, 2023 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Over the past several years, Smart Network Interface Cards (NIC/SmartNICs) have rapidly
evolved in popularity. In particular, NVIDIA's BlueField line of SmartNICs has been effective …

DPDPU: Data Processing with DPUs

J Hu, PA Bernstein, J Li, Q Zhang - arXiv preprint arXiv:2407.13658, 2024 - arxiv.org
Improving the performance and reducing the cost of cloud data systems is increasingly
challenging. Data processing units (DPUs) are a promising solution, but utilizing them for …

Disaggregated Memory with SmartNIC Offloading: a Case Study on Graph Processing

J Wahlgren, G Schieffer, M Gokhale… - 2024 IEEE 36th …, 2024 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Disaggregated memory breaks the boundary of monolithic servers to enable memory
provisioning on demand. Using network-attached memory to provide memory expansion for …

SmartNICs in the Cloud: The Why, What and How of In-network Processing for Data-Intensive Applications

F Faghih, T Ziegler, Z István, C Binnig - Companion of the 2024 …, 2024 - dl.acm.org
In modern datacenters and clouds, Resource Disaggregation has been adopted as a way of
offering scalability and efficient resource utilization for large-scale applications. Provisioning …

Geospatial Filter and Refine Computations on NVidia Bluefield Data Processing Units (DPU)

D Kaymak, S Puri - The International Conference for High Performance …, 2023 - par.nsf.gov
In this poster, we will show how to leverage NVidia's Bluef ield Data Processing Unit (DPU)
in geospatial systems. Existing work in literature has explored DPUs in the context of …

[HTML][HTML] Towards Network-Accelerated Databases

LB Thostrup - tuprints.ulb.tu-darmstadt.de
Throughout the last years, data processing systems have seen substantial changes, notably
moving towards disaggregation of resources. This shift separates compute and storage …