Emerging SmartNIC-based disaggregated NVMe storage has become a promising storage
infrastructure due to its competitive IO performance and low cost. These SmartNIC JBOFs …

Cloud block storage (CBS) is a key pillar of public clouds. Today's CBS distinguishes itself
from physical counterparts (eg, SSDs) by offering unique burst capability as well as …

In many important cloud services, different tenants execute their requests in the thread pool
of the same process, requiring fair sharing of resources. However, using fair queue …

Container storage commonly relies on overlay file systems to interpose read-only container
images upon backing file systems. While being transparent to and compatible with most …

In clouds where CPU cores are time-shared by virtual CPUs (vCPU), vCPUs are scheduled
and descheduled by the virtual machine monitor (VMM) periodically. In each virtual machine …

The paper focuses on an under-studied yet fundamental issue on Simultaneous Multi-
Threading (SMT) processors—how to schedule I/O workloads, so as to improve I/O …

Solid-state disk (SSD)-based redundant array of independent disks (RAIDs) have been
widely deployed in high-end enterprize systems to provide high-performance and highly …

For a production high-performance computing (HPC) system, where storage devices are
shared between multiple applications and managed in a best effort manner, I/O contention is …

Flash SSDs have become the de-facto choice to deliver high I/O performance to modern
data-intensive workloads. These workloads are often deployed in the cloud, where multiple …

Achieving high performance in virtualized data centers requires both deploying high
throughput storage clusters, ie based on Solid State Disks (SSDs), as well as optimally …