Pond: Cxl-based memory pooling systems for cloud platforms

H Li, DS Berger, L Hsu, D Ernst, P Zardoshti… - Proceedings of the 28th …, 2023 - dl.acm.org
Public cloud providers seek to meet stringent performance requirements and low hardware
cost. A key driver of performance and cost is main memory. Memory pooling promises to …

{AIFM}:{High-Performance},{Application-Integrated} far memory

Z Ruan, M Schwarzkopf, MK Aguilera… - 14th USENIX Symposium …, 2020 - usenix.org
Memory is the most contended and least elastic resource in datacenter servers today.
Applications can use only local memory—which may be scarce—even though memory …

Rethinking software runtimes for disaggregated memory

I Calciu, MT Imran, I Puddu, S Kashyap… - Proceedings of the 26th …, 2021 - dl.acm.org
Disaggregated memory can address resource provisioning inefficiencies in current
datacenters. Multiple software runtimes for disaggregated memory have been proposed in …

Enzian: an open, general, CPU/FPGA platform for systems software research

D Cock, A Ramdas, D Schwyn, M Giardino… - Proceedings of the 27th …, 2022 - dl.acm.org
Hybrid computing platforms, comprising CPU cores and FPGA logic, are increasingly used
for accelerating data-intensive workloads in cloud deployments, and are a growing topic of …

Effectively prefetching remote memory with leap

H Al Maruf, M Chowdhury - 2020 USENIX Annual Technical Conference …, 2020 - usenix.org
Memory disaggregation over RDMA can improve the performance of memory-constrained
applications by replacing disk swap** with remote memory accesses. However, state-of …

Mira: A program-behavior-guided far memory system

Z Guo, Z He, Y Zhang - Proceedings of the 29th Symposium on …, 2023 - dl.acm.org
Far memory, where memory accesses are non-local, has become more popular in recent
years as a solution to expand memory size and avoid memory stranding. Prior far memory …

Disaggregated memory in the datacenter: A survey

M Ewais, P Chow - IEEE Access, 2023 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Datacenters of today have maintained the same architecture for decades. The building block
of the datacenter remains the server, which tightly couples the necessary compute …

Hermit:{Low-Latency},{High-Throughput}, and Transparent Remote Memory via {Feedback-Directed} Asynchrony

Y Qiao, C Wang, Z Ruan, A Belay, Q Lu… - … USENIX Symposium on …, 2023 - usenix.org
Remote memory techniques are gaining traction in datacenters because they can
significantly improve memory utilization. A popular approach is to use kernel-level, page …

A Tale of Two Paths: Toward a Hybrid Data Plane for Efficient {Far-Memory} Applications

L Chen, S Liu, C Wang, H Ma, Y Qiao, Z Wang… - … USENIX Symposium on …, 2024 - usenix.org
With rapid advances in network hardware, far memory has gained a great deal of traction
due to its ability to break the memory capacity wall. Existing far memory systems fall into one …

Breakfast of champions: towards zero-copy serialization with NIC scatter-gather

D Raghavan, P Levis, M Zaharia, I Zhang - Proceedings of the Workshop …, 2021 - dl.acm.org
Microsecond I/O will make data serialization a major bottleneck for datacenter applications.
Serialization is fundamentally about data movement: serialization libraries coalesce and …