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CSP: A Novel System Architecture for Scalable Internet and Communication Services
The boundary between the network edge and the front-end servers of the data center is blurring. Appliance vendors are flooding the market with new capabilities, while switch/router vendors scramble to add these services to their traditional transport services. The result of this competition is a set of ad-hoc technologies and capabilities to provide services at the network edge. This paper describes the Comm Services Platform (CSP); a system architecture for this new ‘communication services tier’ of the data center. CSP enumerates a set of architectural components to provide scalable communication services built from standard building blocks that utilize emerging server, I/O and network technologies. The building blocks of CSP include a System Area Network, the Virtual Interface Architecture, programmable network processors, and standard high-density servers.
author = {Hemal V. Shah and Dave B. Minturn and Annie Foong and Gary L. McAlpine and Rajesh S. Madukkarumukumana and Greg J. Regnier},
title = {{CSP}: A Novel System Architecture for Scalable Internet and Communication Services},
booktitle = {3rd USENIX Symposium on Internet Technologies and Systems (USITS 01)},
year = {2001},
address = {San Francisco, CA},
url = {https://www.usenix.org/conference/usits-01/csp-novel-system-architecture-scalable-internet-and-communication-services},
publisher = {USENIX Association},
month = mar
}