Jupiter evolving: transforming google's datacenter network via optical circuit switches and software-defined networking

L Poutievski, O Mashayekhi, J Ong, A Singh… - Proceedings of the …, 2022 - dl.acm.org
We present a decade of evolution and production experience with Jupiter datacenter
network fabrics. In this period Jupiter has delivered 5x higher speed and capacity, 30 …

Sundial: Fault-tolerant clock synchronization for datacenters

Y Li, G Kumar, H Hariharan, H Wassel… - … USENIX symposium on …, 2020 - usenix.org
Clock synchronization is critical for many datacenter applications such as distributed
transactional databases, consistent snapshots, and network telemetry. As applications have …

A throughput-centric view of the performance of datacenter topologies

P Namyar, S Supittayapornpong, M Zhang… - Proceedings of the …, 2021 - dl.acm.org
While prior work has explored many proposed datacenter designs, only two designs, Clos-
based and expander-based, are generally considered practical because they can scale …

Poseidon: Efficient, Robust, and Practical Datacenter {CC} via Deployable {INT}

W Wang, M Moshref, Y Li, G Kumar, TSE Ng… - … USENIX Symposium on …, 2023 - usenix.org
The difficulty in gaining visibility into the fine-timescale hop-level congestion state of
networks has been a key challenge faced by congestion control (CC) protocols for decades …

Realizing RotorNet: Toward Practical Microsecond Scale Optical Networking

WM Mellette, A Forencich, R Athapathu… - Proceedings of the …, 2024 - dl.acm.org
We describe our experience building and deploying a demand-oblivious optically-switched
network based on the RotorNet and Opera architectures. We detail the design, manufacture …

Performance trade-offs in reconfigurable networks for HPC

MY Teh, Z Wu, M Glick, S Rumley… - Journal of Optical …, 2022 - opg.optica.org
Designing efficient interconnects to support high-bandwidth and low-latency communication
is critical toward realizing high performance computing (HPC) and data center (DC) systems …

Understanding lifecycle management complexity of datacenter topologies

M Zhang, RN Mysore, S Supittayapornpong… - … USENIX Symposium on …, 2019 - usenix.org
Most recent datacenter topology designs have focused on performance properties such as
latency and throughput. In this paper, we explore a new dimension, life cycle management …

Gemini: Practical reconfigurable datacenter networks with topology and traffic engineering

M Zhang, J Zhang, R Wang, R Govindan… - arXiv preprint arXiv …, 2021 - arxiv.org
To reduce cost, datacenter network operators are exploring blocking network designs. An
example of such a design is a" spine-free" form of a Fat-Tree, in which pods directly connect …

Experiences with modeling network topologies at multiple levels of abstraction

JC Mogul, D Goricanec, M Pool, A Shaikh… - … USENIX Symposium on …, 2020 - usenix.org
Network management is becoming increasingly automated, and automation depends on
detailed, explicit representations of data about the state of a network and about an operator's …

Enabling quasi-static reconfigurable networks with robust topology engineering

MY Teh, S Zhao, P Cao… - IEEE/ACM Transactions …, 2022 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Many optical circuit switched data center networks (DCN) have been proposed in the last
decade to attain higher capacity and topology reconfigurability, though commercial adoption …