User-facing services are now evolving towards the microservice architecture where a
service is built by connecting multiple microservice stages. Since the entire service is heavy …

The global scale and challenging requirements of modern cloud applications have led to the
development of complex, widely distributed, service-oriented applications. One enabler of …

Data serialization is critical for many datacenter applications, but the memory copies
required to move application data into packets are costly. Recent zero-copy APIs expose …

FlexTOE is a flexible, yet high-performance TCP offload engine (TOE) to SmartNICs.
FlexTOE eliminates almost all host data-path TCP processing and is fully customizable …

Responding to the" datacenter tax" and" killer microseconds" problems for memory-intensive
datacenter applications, diverse solutions including Smart NIC-based ones have been …

The emerging paradigm of microservices decomposes online services into fine-grained
software modules frequently communicating over the datacenter network, often using …

Today, most communication between the NIC and software involves exchanging fixed-size
packet buffers. This packetized interface was designed for an era when NICs implemented …

Emerging interconnects make peripherals, such as the network interface controller (NIC),
accessible through the processor's cache hierarchy, allowing these devices to participate in …

The widespread deployment of storage disaggregation in the cloud has facilitated flexible
scaling and storage overprovisioning, allowing for high utilization of storage capacity and …

We propose to use the small, newly available on-NIC memory (" nicmem") to keep pace with
the rapidly increasing performance of NICs. We motivate our proposal by accelerating two …