In comparison with cloud computing, edge computing offers processing at locations closer to
end devices and reduces the user experienced latency. The new recent paradigm of in …

In this article, we survey existing academic and commercial efforts to provide Field-
Programmable Gate Array (FPGA) acceleration in datacenters and the cloud. The goal is a …

Emerging Multicore SoC SmartNICs, enclosing rich computing resources (eg, a multicore
processor, onboard DRAM, accelerators, programmable DMA engines), hold the potential to …

Existing serverless computing platforms are built upon homogeneous computers, limiting the
function density and restricting serverless computing to limited scenarios. We introduce …

We present ghOSt, our infrastructure for delegating kernel scheduling decisions to
userspace code. ghOSt is designed to support the rapidly evolving needs of our data center …

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

Big data applications often incur large costs in I/O, data transfer and copying overhead,
especially when operating in cloud environments. Since most such computations are …

Programmable data plane technologies enable the systematic reconfiguration of the low-
level processing steps applied to network packets and are key drivers toward realizing the …

The network interface cards (NICs) of modern computers are changing to adapt to faster
data rates and to help with the scaling issues of general-purpose CPU technologies. Among …

High-performance distributed transactions require efficient remote operations on database
memory and protocol metadata. The high communication cost of this workload calls for …