A survey on sliding window sketch for network measurement

Z Zeng, L Cui, M Qian, Z Zhang, K Wei - Computer Networks, 2023 - Elsevier
As an important basis for network management, effective network measurement is critical for
improving network performance and security. As an efficient tool for network measurement …

A Survey of Storage Systems in the RDMA era

S Ma, T Ma, K Chen, Y Wu - IEEE Transactions on Parallel and …, 2022 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Remote Direct Memory Access (RDMA) based network devices are increasingly being
deployed in modern data centers. RDMA brings significant performance improvements over …

RAMBDA: RDMA-driven Acceleration Framework for Memory-intensive µs-scale Datacenter Applications

Y Yuan, J Huang, Y Sun, T Wang… - … Symposium on High …, 2023 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Responding to the" datacenter tax" and" killer microseconds" problems for memory-intensive
datacenter applications, diverse solutions including Smart NIC-based ones have been …

Characterizing Off-path {SmartNIC} for Accelerating Distributed Systems

X Wei, R Cheng, Y Yang, R Chen, H Chen - 17th USENIX Symposium …, 2023 - usenix.org
SmartNICs have recently emerged as an appealing device for accelerating distributed
systems. However, there has not been a comprehensive characterization of SmartNICs, and …

LogNIC: A High-Level Performance Model for SmartNICs

Z Guo, J Lin, Y Bai, D Kim, M Swift, A Akella… - Proceedings of the 56th …, 2023 - dl.acm.org
SmartNICs have become an indispensable communication fabric and computing substrate
in today's data centers and enterprise clusters, providing in-network computing capabilities …

{OSMOSIS}: Enabling {Multi-Tenancy} in Datacenter {SmartNICs}

M Khalilov, M Chrapek, S Shen, A Vezzu… - 2024 USENIX Annual …, 2024 - usenix.org
Multi-tenancy is essential for unleashing SmartNIC's potential in datacenters. Our systematic
analysis in this work shows that existing on-path SmartNICs have resource multiplexing …

Conspirator:{SmartNIC-Aided} Control Plane for Distributed {ML} Workloads

Y **ao, DZ Tootaghaj, A Dhakal, L Cao… - 2024 USENIX Annual …, 2024 - usenix.org
Modern machine learning (ML) workloads heavily depend on distributing tasks across
clusters of server CPUs and specialized accelerators, such as GPUs and TPUs, to achieve …

Demystifying datapath accelerator enhanced off-path smartnic

X Chen, J Zhang, T Fu, Y Shen, S Ma, K Qian… - arxiv preprint arxiv …, 2024 - arxiv.org
Network speeds grow quickly in the modern cloud, so SmartNICs are introduced to offload
network processing tasks, even application logic. However, typical multicore SmartNICs …

Accelerator-aware in-network load balancing for improved application performance

H Tajbakhsh, R Parizotto, M Neves… - 2022 IFIP …, 2022 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
The end of Moore's law has sparked a surge on programmable accelerators (eg, SmartNICs,
TPUs) for continued scaling of application performance. However, despite the great success …

Building blocks for network-accelerated distributed file systems

S Di Girolamo, D De Sensi, K Taranov… - … Conference for High …, 2022 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
High-performance clusters and datacenters pose increasingly demanding requirements on
storage systems. If these systems do not operate at scale, applications are doomed to …