Stateless datacenter load-balancing with Beamer

May 3, 2018 ~ Adrian Colyer ~ 3 Comments

Stateless datacenter load-balancing with Beamer Olteanu et al., NSDI'18 We’ve spent the last couple of days looking at datacenter network infrastructure, but we didn’t touch on the topic of load balancing. For a single TCP connection, you want all of the packets to end up at the same destination. Logically, a load balancer (a.k.a. ‘mux’) ... Continue Reading

Andromeda: performance, isolation, and velocity at scale in cloud network virtualization

May 2, 2018 ~ Adrian Colyer ~ 2 Comments

Andromeda: performance, isolation, and velocity at scale in cloud network virtualization Dalton et al., NSDI'18 Yesterday we took a look at the Microsoft Azure networking stack, today it’s the turn of the Google Cloud Platform. (It’s a very handy coincidence to have two such experience and system design report papers appearing side by side so ... Continue Reading

Azure accelerated networking: SmartNICs in the public cloud

May 1, 2018 ~ Adrian Colyer ~ 5 Comments

Azure accelerated networking: SmartNICs in the public cloud Firestone et al., NSDI'18 We’re still on the ‘beyond CPUs’ theme today, with a great paper from Microsoft detailing their use of FPGAs to accelerate networking in Azure. Microsoft have been doing this since 2015, and hence this paper also serves as a wonderful experience report documenting ... Continue Reading

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Month: May 2018

Stateless datacenter load-balancing with Beamer

Andromeda: performance, isolation, and velocity at scale in cloud network virtualization

Azure accelerated networking: SmartNICs in the public cloud