Modern interactive and data-intensive applications must operate under demanding time
constraints, prompting a shift toward the adoption of specialized software and hardware …

The nature of machine learning (ML) applications exposes rich characteristics to underlying
network transport, yet little work has been done so far to systematically exploit these …

Modern cloud networks are a fundamental pillar of data-intensive applications. They provide
high-speed transaction (packet) rates and low overhead, enabling, for instance, truly …

Modern network hardware is able to meet the stringent bandwidth demands of applications
like GPU-accelerated AI. However, existing host network stacks offer a hard tradeoff …

Many existing load balancing mechanisms work effectively in lossy datacenter networks
(DCNs), but they suffer from serious packet reordering in lossless Ethernet DCNs deployed …

The TCP remains the workhorse protocol for many modern large-scale data centers.
However, the increasingly demanding performance expectations—led by advancement in …

Cloud block storage (CBS) is a key pillar of public clouds. Today's CBS distinguishes itself
from physical counterparts (eg, SSDs) by offering unique burst capability as well as …

Various datacenter network (DCN) load balancing schemes have been proposed in the past
decade. Unfortunately, most of these solutions designed for lossy DCNs do not work well for …

Various datacenter network (DCN) load balancing schemes have been proposed in the past
decade. Unfortunately, most of these solutions designed for lossy DCNs do not work well for …

Disaggregated database systems achieve unprecedented excellence in elasticity and
resource utilization at the cloud scale and have gained great momentum from both industry …