Data centers form a key part of the infrastructure upon which a variety of information
technology services are built. As data centers continue to grow in size and complexity, it is …

This paper presents our design and experience with a microkernel-inspired approach to
host networking called Snap. Snap is a userspace networking system that supports Google's …

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 …

As datacenter network speeds rise, an increasing fraction of server CPU cycles is consumed
by TCP packet processing, in particular for remote procedure calls (RPCs). To free server …

Recent I/O technologies such as PCI-Express and 10 Gb Ethernet enable unprecedented
levels of I/O bandwidths in mainstream platforms. However, in traditional architectures …

Roughly described, incoming data packets are delivered by the NIC directly to at least two
user level endpoints. In an aspect, only filters that cannot be ambiguous are created in the …

A method for transmitting data by means of a data processing system, the system supporting
an operating system and at least one application and having access to a memory and a …

(54) METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR 370/402,412,413,469,390; 709/250, 225,
MULTICAST PACKET RECEPTION 709/246, 236; 713/153, 154; 726/13 See application file …

Counting Bloom filters (CBF) and their variants are data structures that support membership
or multiplicity queries with a low probabilistic error. Yet, they incur a significant memory …

Abstract Adoption of the 10GbE Ethernet standard as a high performance interconnect has
been impeded by two important performance-oriented considerations:(1) processing …