In order to facilitate flexible network service virtualization and migration, network functions
(NFs) are increasingly executed by software modules as so-called “softwarized NFs” on …

It is commonly believed that datacenter networking software must sacrifice generality to
attain high performance. The popularity of specialized distributed systems designed …

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

Modern RDMA hardware offers the potential for exceptional performance, but design
choices including which RDMA operations to use and how to use them significantly affect …

FaSST is an RDMA-based system that provides distributed in-memory transactions with
serializability and durability. Existing RDMA-based transaction processing systems use one …

Many datacenters and clouds manage storage systems separately from computing services
for better manageability and resource utilization. These existing disaggregated storage …

Performance of in-memory key-value store (KVS) continues to be of great importance as
modern KVS goes beyond the traditional object-caching workload and becomes a key …

Programmable switches have been touted as an attractive alternative for deploying network
functions (NFs) such as network address translators (NATs), load balancers, and firewalls …

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

We present the nanoPU, a new NIC-CPU co-design to accelerate an increasingly pervasive
class of datacenter applications: those that utilize many small Remote Procedure Calls …