An introduction to the compute express link (cxl) interconnect

D Das Sharma, R Blankenship, D Berger - ACM Computing Surveys, 2024 - dl.acm.org
The Compute Express Link (CXL) is an open industry-standard interconnect between
processors and devices such as accelerators, memory buffers, smart network interfaces …

Flexible advancement in asynchronous bft consensus

S Liu, W Xu, C Shan, X Yan, T Xu, B Wang… - Proceedings of the 29th …, 2023 - dl.acm.org
Byzantine fault tolerant (BFT) consensus protocols are becoming an appealing solution to
blockchains. As most blockchain systems are deployed on Wide Area Networks (WANs) …

Ditto: An elastic and adaptive memory-disaggregated caching system

J Shen, P Zuo, X Luo, Y Su, J Gu, H Feng… - Proceedings of the 29th …, 2023 - dl.acm.org
In-memory caching systems are fundamental building blocks in cloud services. However,
due to the coupled CPU and memory on monolithic servers, existing caching systems …

Dissecting bft consensus: In trusted components we trust!

S Gupta, S Rahnama, S Pandey, N Crooks… - Proceedings of the …, 2023 - dl.acm.org
The growing interest in reliable multi-party applications has fostered widespread adoption of
Byzantine Fault-Tolerant (bft) consensus protocols. Existing bft protocols need f more …

Chop chop: Byzantine atomic broadcast to the network limit

M Camaioni, R Guerraoui, M Monti, PL Roman… - … USENIX Symposium on …, 2024 - usenix.org
At the heart of state machine replication, the celebrated technique enabling decentralized
and secure universal computation, lies Atomic Broadcast, a fundamental communication …

Trusted hardware-assisted leaderless byzantine fault tolerance consensus

L Zhao, J Decouchant, J Liu, Q Lu… - IEEE Transactions on …, 2024 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Byzantine Fault Tolerance (BFT) Consensus protocols with trusted hardware assistance
have been extensively explored for their improved resilience to tolerate more faulty …

{DSig}: Breaking the Barrier of Signatures in Data Centers

MK Aguilera, C Burgelin, R Guerraoui, A Murat… - … USENIX Symposium on …, 2024 - usenix.org
Data centers increasingly host mutually distrustful users on shared infrastructure. A powerful
tool to safeguard such users are digital signatures. Digital signatures have revolutionized …

SplitFT: Fault Tolerance for Disaggregated Datacenters via Remote Memory Logging

X Luo, R Alagappan, A Ganesan - Proceedings of the Nineteenth …, 2024 - dl.acm.org
We introduce SplitFt, a new fault-tolerance approach for storage-centric applications in
disaggregated data centers. SplitFt uses a novel split architecture, where large writes are …

Mozart: Taming taxes and composing accelerators with shared-memory

V Suresh, B Mishra, Y **g, Z Zhu, N **… - Proceedings of the …, 2024 - dl.acm.org
Resource-constrained system-on-chips (SoCs) are increasingly heterogeneous with
specialized accelerators for various tasks. Acceleration taxes due to control and data …

CHIME: A Cache-Efficient and High-Performance Hybrid Index on Disaggregated Memory

X Luo, J Shen, P Zuo, X Wang, MR Lyu… - Proceedings of the ACM …, 2024 - dl.acm.org
Disaggregated memory (DM) is a widely discussed datacenter architecture in academia and
industry. It decouples computing and memory resources from monolithic servers into two …