We investigate the use of SmartNIC-accelerated servers to execute microservice-based
applications in the data center. By offloading suitable microservices to the SmartNIC's low …

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

PCIe-based Flash is commonly deployed to provide datacenter applications with high IO
rates. However, its capacity and bandwidth are often underutilized as it is difficult to design …

Erasure coding is a low-cost redundancy mechanism for distributed storage systems by
storing stripes of data and parity chunks. Wide stripes are recently proposed to suppress the …

Disaggregated racks comprise a dense cluster of separate pools of compute, memory and
storage blades, all inter-connected through an internal network within a single rack …

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COMMUNICATIONS OF THE ACM | NOVEMBER 2019 | VOL. 62 | NO. 11 contributed articles …

To cope with the ever growing availability of training data, there have been several
proposals to scale machine learning computation beyond a single server and distribute it …

Sustainable and cost-effective long-term storage remains an unsolved problem. The most
widely used storage technologies today are magnetic (hard disk drives and tape). They use …

The rapid growth of cloud computing, both in terms of the spectrum and volume of cloud
workloads, necessitates re-visiting the traditional rack-mountable servers based datacenter …

The demand for data-driven decision making coupled with need to retain data to meet
regulatory compliance requirements has resulted in a rapid increase in the amount of …