Memory disaggregation architecture physically separates CPU and memory into
independent components, which are connected via high-speed RDMA networks, greatly …

Remote Direct Memory Access (RDMA) based network devices are increasingly being
deployed in modern data centers. RDMA brings significant performance improvements over …

Implementing distributed protocols under a standard Linux kernel networking stack enjoys
the benefits of load-aware CPU scaling, high compatibility, and robust security and isolation …

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

SmartNICs are on the rise as a packet processing platform, with the trend towards a uniform
P4 programming model. However, unleashing SmartNIC packet processing performance in …

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

High-performance transaction processing needs to schedule numerous requests from the
network. However, such request scheduling comes with costs of complex information …

SmartNICs have become an indispensable communication fabric and computing substrate
in today's data centers and enterprise clusters, providing in-network computing capabilities …

Memory optimization kernel features, such as memory deduplication, are designed to
improve the overall efficiency of systems like datacenter servers, and they have proven to be …

State machine replication (SMR) is a core mechanism for building highly available and
consistent systems. In this paper, we propose Waverunner, a new approach to accelerate …