The widespread use and continuous improvements of machine tools have had a significant
impact on productivity in manufacturing industry ever since the Industrial Revolution. At the …

Latency is increasingly becoming a performance bottleneck for Internet Protocol (IP)
networks, but historically, networks have been designed with aims of maximizing throughput …

Datacenter applications demand microsecond-scale tail latencies and high request rates
from operating systems, and most applications handle loads that have high variance over …

Distributed computing remains inaccessible to a large number of users, in spite of many
open source platforms and extensive commercial offerings. While distributed computation …

Traditional datacenters are designed as a collection of servers, each of which tightly couples
the resources required for computing tasks. Recent industry trends suggest a paradigm shift …

We present FireSim, an open-source simulation platform that enables cycle-exact
microarchitectural simulation of large scale-out clusters by combining FPGA-accelerated …

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 …

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 …

Recently, there is an increasing interest in building data-center applications with RDMA
because of its low-latency, high-throughput, and low-CPU-utilization benefits. However …

As the main gateway for network traffic to a server, the network interface card (NIC) is an
ideal place to incorporate diverse network functionality, such as traffic control, protocol …