The conventional wisdom is that aggressive networking requirements, such as high packet
rates for small messages and microsecond-scale tail latency, are best addressed outside the …

The recent surge of network I/O performance has put enormous pressure on memory and
software I/O processing sub systems. We argue that the primary reason for high memory and …

As CPU cores become both faster and more numerous, the limiting factor for most programs
is now, and will be for some time, memory access. Hardware designers have come up with …

Distributed in-memory key-value stores, such as memcached, are central to the scalability of
modern internet services. Current deployments use commodity servers with high-end …

Memory channel contention is a critical performance bottleneck in modern systems that have
highly parallelized processing units operating on large data sets. The memory channel is …

Distributed in-memory key-value stores (KVSs), such as memcached, have become a critical
data serving layer in modern Internet-oriented datacenter infrastructure. Their performance …

Increased peripheral performance is causing strain on the memory subsystem of modern
processors. For example, available DRAM throughput can no longer sustain the traffic of a …

Memory access is the major bottleneck in realizing multi-hundred-gigabit networks with
commodity hardware, hence it is essential to make good use of cache memory that is a …

One of the main predictability bottlenecks of modern multi-core embedded systems is
contention for access to shared memory resources. Partitioning and software-driven …

This paper presents how the Pangu storage system continuously evolves with hardware
technologies and the business model to provide high-performance, reliable storage services …