Jupiter evolving: transforming google's datacenter network via optical circuit switches and software-defined networking

L Poutievski, O Mashayekhi, J Ong, A Singh… - Proceedings of the …, 2022 - dl.acm.org
We present a decade of evolution and production experience with Jupiter datacenter
network fabrics. In this period Jupiter has delivered 5x higher speed and capacity, 30 …

Expanding across time to deliver bandwidth efficiency and low latency

WM Mellette, R Das, Y Guo, R McGuinness… - … USENIX Symposium on …, 2020 - usenix.org
Datacenters need networks that support both low-latency and high-bandwidth packet
delivery to meet the stringent requirements of modern applications. We present Opera, a …

Cerberus: The power of choices in datacenter topology design-a throughput perspective

C Griner, J Zerwas, A Blenk, M Ghobadi… - Proceedings of the …, 2021 - dl.acm.org
The bandwidth and latency requirements of modern datacenter applications have led
researchers to propose various topology designs using static, dynamic demand-oblivious …

Xpander: Towards optimal-performance datacenters

A Valadarsky, G Shahaf, M Dinitz… - Proceedings of the 12th …, 2016 - dl.acm.org
Despite extensive efforts to meet ever-growing demands, today's datacenters often exhibit
far-from-optimal performance in terms of network utilization, resiliency to failures, cost …

Beyond fat-trees without antennae, mirrors, and disco-balls

S Kassing, A Valadarsky, G Shahaf… - Proceedings of the …, 2017 - dl.acm.org
Recent studies have observed that large data center networks often have a few hotspots
while most of the network is underutilized. Consequently, numerous data center network …

A throughput-centric view of the performance of datacenter topologies

P Namyar, S Supittayapornpong, M Zhang… - Proceedings of the …, 2021 - dl.acm.org
While prior work has explored many proposed datacenter designs, only two designs, Clos-
based and expander-based, are generally considered practical because they can scale …

Management of an academic HPC & research computing facility: the ULHPC experience 2.0

S Varrette, H Cartiaux, S Peter, E Kieffer… - Proceedings of the …, 2022 - dl.acm.org
With the advent of the technological revolution and the digital transformation that made all
scientific disciplines becoming computational, the need for High Performance Computing …

Realizing RotorNet: Toward Practical Microsecond Scale Optical Networking

WM Mellette, A Forencich, R Athapathu… - Proceedings of the …, 2024 - dl.acm.org
We describe our experience building and deploying a demand-oblivious optically-switched
network based on the RotorNet and Opera architectures. We detail the design, manufacture …

High-performance routing with multipathing and path diversity in ethernet and HPC networks

M Besta, J Domke, M Schneider… - … on Parallel and …, 2020 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
The recent line of research into topology design focuses on lowering network diameter.
Many low-diameter topologies such as Slim Fly or Jellyfish that substantially reduce cost …

High throughput data center topology design

A Singla, PB Godfrey, A Kolla - 11th USENIX Symposium on Networked …, 2014 - usenix.org
With high throughput networks acquiring a crucial role in supporting data-intensive
applications, a variety of data center network topologies have been proposed to achieve …