Peter X. Gao, Akshay Narayan, Sagar Karandikar, Joao Carreira, and Sangjin Han, University of California, Berkeley; Rachit Agarwal, Cornell University; Sylvia Ratnasamy, University of California, Berkeley; Scott Shenker, University of California, Berkeley, and International Computer Science Institute
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 to a disaggregated datacenter (DDC) architecture containing a pool of resources, each built as a standalone resource blade and interconnected using a network fabric.
A key enabling (or blocking) factor for disaggregation will be the network—to support good application-level performance it becomes critical that the network fabric provide low latency communication even under the increased traffic load that disaggregation introduces. In this paper, we use a workload-driven approach to derive the minimum latency and bandwidth requirements that the network in disaggregated datacenters must provide to avoid degrading application-level performance and explore the feasibility of meeting these requirements with existing system designs and commodity networking technology.
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author = {Peter X. Gao and Akshay Narayan and Sagar Karandikar and Joao Carreira and Sangjin Han and Rachit Agarwal and Sylvia Ratnasamy and Scott Shenker},
title = {Network Requirements for Resource Disaggregation},
booktitle = {12th USENIX Symposium on Operating Systems Design and Implementation (OSDI 16)},
year = {2016},
isbn = {978-1-931971-33-1},
address = {Savannah, GA},
pages = {249--264},
url = {https://www.usenix.org/conference/osdi16/technical-sessions/presentation/gao},
publisher = {USENIX Association},
month = nov
}