This paper provides an overview of software-defined “hardware” infrastructures (SDHI).
SDHI builds upon the concept of hardware (HW) resource disaggregation. HW resource …

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

The emerging paradigm of microservices decomposes online services into fine-grained
software modules frequently communicating over the datacenter network, often using …

Modern online services come with stringent quality requirements in terms of response time
tail latency. Because of their decomposition into fine-grained communicating software …

Large-scale online services are commonly structured as a network of software tiers, which
communicate over the datacenter network using RPCs. Ongoing trends towards software …

Rack-scale computers, comprising a large number of micro-servers connected by a direct-
connect topology, are expected to replace servers as the building block in data centers. We …

Rack-scale computers are dense clusters with hundreds of micro-servers per rack. Designed
for data center workloads, they can have significant power, cost and performance benefits …

With the growing importance of in-memory data processing, cloud service providers have
launched large memory virtual machine services to accommodate memory intensive …

To provide low latency and high throughput guarantees, most large key-value stores keep
the data in the memory of many servers. Despite the natural parallelism across lookups, the …

The large variety of compute-heavy and data-driven applications accelerate the need for a
distributed I/O solution that enables cost-effective scaling of resources between networked …