SiP-ML: high-bandwidth optical network interconnects for machine learning training

M Khani, M Ghobadi, M Alizadeh, Z Zhu… - Proceedings of the …, 2021 - dl.acm.org
This paper proposes optical network interconnects as a key enabler for building high-
bandwidth ML training clusters with strong scaling properties. Our design, called SiP-ML …

Cerberus: The power of choices in datacenter topology design-a throughput perspective

C Griner, J Zerwas, A Blenk, M Ghobadi… - Proceedings of the …, 2021 - dl.acm.org
The bandwidth and latency requirements of modern datacenter applications have led
researchers to propose various topology designs using static, dynamic demand-oblivious …

Duo: A high-throughput reconfigurable datacenter network using local routing and control

J Zerwas, C Györgyi, A Blenk, S Schmid… - Proceedings of the ACM …, 2023 - dl.acm.org
The performance of many cloud-based applications critically depends on the capacity of the
underlying datacenter network. A particularly innovative approach to improve the throughput …

Mars: Near-optimal throughput with shallow buffers in reconfigurable datacenter networks

V Addanki, C Avin, S Schmid - Proceedings of the ACM on Measurement …, 2023 - dl.acm.org
The performance of large-scale computing systems often critically depends on high-
performance communication networks. Dynamically reconfigurable topologies, eg, based on …

Dynamic demand-aware link scheduling for reconfigurable datacenters

K Hanauer, M Henzinger, L Ost… - IEEE INFOCOM 2023 …, 2023 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Emerging reconfigurable datacenters allow to dynamically adjust the network topology in a
demand-aware manner. These datacenters rely on optical switches which can be …

Push-down trees: optimal self-adjusting complete trees

C Avin, K Mondal, S Schmid - IEEE/ACM Transactions on …, 2022 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
This paper studies a fundamental algorithmic problem related to the design of demand-
aware networks: networks whose topologies adjust toward the traffic patterns they serve, in …

Optimizing Reconfigurable Optical Datacenters: The Power of Randomization

M Bienkowski, D Fuchssteiner, S Schmid - Proceedings of the …, 2023 - dl.acm.org
Reconfigurable optical topologies are a promising new technology to improve datacenter
network performance and cope with the explosive growth of traffic. In particular, these …

SeedTree: A Dynamically Optimal and Local Self-Adjusting Tree

A Pourdamghani, C Avin, R Sama… - IEEE INFOCOM 2023 …, 2023 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
We consider the fundamental problem of designing a self-adjusting tree, which efficiently
and locally adapts itself towards the demand it serves (namely accesses to the items stored …

D3: An Adaptive Reconfigurable Datacenter Network

J Zerwas, C Griner, S Schmid, C Avin - arXiv preprint arXiv:2406.13380, 2024 - arxiv.org
The explosively growing communication traffic in datacenters imposes increasingly stringent
performance requirements on the underlying networks. Over the last years, researchers …

Kevin: de Bruijn-based topology with demand-aware links and greedy routing

J Zerwas, C Györgyi, A Blenk, S Schmid… - arXiv preprint arXiv …, 2022 - arxiv.org
We propose Kevin, a novel demand-aware reconfigurable rack-to-rack datacenter network
realized with a simple and efficient control plane. In particular, Kevin makes effective use of …