TY - GEN
T1 - Network support for resource disaggregation in next-generation datacenters
AU - Han, Sangjin
AU - Egi, Norbert
AU - Panda, Aurojit
AU - Ratnasamy, Sylvia
AU - Shi, Guangyu
AU - Shenker, Scott
PY - 2013
Y1 - 2013
N2 - Datacenters have traditionally been architected as a collection of servers wherein each server aggregates a fixed amount of computing, memory, storage, and communication resources. In this paper, we advocate an alternative construction in which the resources within a server are disaggregated and the datacenter is instead architected as a collection of standalone resources. Disaggregation brings greater modularity to datacenter infrastructure, allowing operators to optimize their deployments for improved efficiency and performance. However, the key enabling or blocking factor for disag-gregation will be the network since communication that was previously contained within a single server now traverses the datacenter fabric. This paper thus explores the question of whether we can build networks that enable disaggregation at datacenter scales.
AB - Datacenters have traditionally been architected as a collection of servers wherein each server aggregates a fixed amount of computing, memory, storage, and communication resources. In this paper, we advocate an alternative construction in which the resources within a server are disaggregated and the datacenter is instead architected as a collection of standalone resources. Disaggregation brings greater modularity to datacenter infrastructure, allowing operators to optimize their deployments for improved efficiency and performance. However, the key enabling or blocking factor for disag-gregation will be the network since communication that was previously contained within a single server now traverses the datacenter fabric. This paper thus explores the question of whether we can build networks that enable disaggregation at datacenter scales.
KW - Design
KW - Performance
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U2 - 10.1145/2535771.2535778
DO - 10.1145/2535771.2535778
M3 - Conference contribution
AN - SCOPUS:84893293973
SN - 9781450325967
T3 - Proceedings of the 12th ACM Workshop on Hot Topics in Networks, HotNets 2013
BT - Proceedings of the 12th ACM Workshop on Hot Topics in Networks, HotNets 2013
T2 - 12th ACM Workshop on Hot Topics in Networks, HotNets 2013
Y2 - 21 November 2013 through 22 November 2013
ER -