Modern web services use in-memory caching extensively to increase throughput and reduce
latency. There have been several workload analyses of production systems that have fueled …

Memory is the most contended and least elastic resource in datacenter servers today.
Applications can use only local memory—which may be scarce—even though memory …

Memory disaggregation has attracted great attention recently because of its benefits in
efficient memory utilization and ease of management. So far, memory disaggregation …

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

Datacenter systems and I/O devices now run at single-digit microsecond latencies, requiring
ns-scale operating systems. Traditional kernel-based operating systems impose an …

In recent years, spurred on by the development and availability of programmable NICs, end
hosts have increasingly become the enforcement point for core network functions such as …

Emerging hardware like persistent memory (PM) and high-speed NICs are promising to
build efficient key-value stores. However, we observe that the small-sized access pattern in …

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

Load balancing is critical for distributed storage to meet strict service-level objectives
(SLOs). It has been shown that a fast cache can guarantee load balancing for a clustered …

The network interface cards (NICs) of modern computers are changing to adapt to faster
data rates and to help with the scaling issues of general-purpose CPU technologies. Among …