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RDMA over Converged Ethernet (RoCE) has gained significant attraction for datacenter networks due to its compatibility with conventional Ethernet-based fabric. However, the RDMA protocol is efficient only on (nearly) lossless networks,…
We observe that emerging artificial intelligence, high-performance computing, and storage workloads pose new challenges for large-scale datacenter networking. RDMA over Converged Ethernet (RoCE) was an attempt to adopt modern Remote Direct…
We present NetReduce, a novel RDMA-compatible in-network reduction architecture to accelerate distributed DNN training. Compared to existing designs, NetReduce maintains a reliable connection between end-hosts in the Ethernet and does not…
Network-on-chip (NoC) architectures rely on buffers to store flits to cope with contention for router resources during packet switching. Recently, reversible multi-function channel (RMC) buffers have been proposed to simultaneously reduce…
Now a days, Internet plays a major role in our day to day activities e.g., for online transactions, online shopping, and other network related applications. Internet suffers from slow convergence of routing protocols after a network failure…
Data-intensive applications in data centers, especially machine learning (ML), have made the network a bottleneck, which in turn has motivated the development of more efficient network protocols and infrastructure. For instance, remote…
Today's data centers consist of thousands of network-connected hosts, each with CPUs and accelerators such as GPUs and FPGAs. These hosts also contain network interface cards (NICs), operating at speeds of 100Gb/s or higher, that are used…
It is commonly believed that datacenter networking software must sacrifice generality to attain high performance. The popularity of specialized distributed systems designed specifically for niche technologies such as RDMA, lossless…
Responding to the "datacenter tax" and "killer microseconds" problems for datacenter applications, diverse solutions including Smart NIC-based ones have been proposed. Nonetheless, they often suffer from high overhead of communications over…
As communication protocols evolve, datacenter network utilization increases. As a result, congestion is more frequent, causing higher latency and packet loss. Combined with the increasing complexity of workloads, manual design of congestion…
Remote Direct Memory Access (RDMA) is widely used in data center networks because of its high performance. However, due to the characteristics of RDMA's retransmission strategy and the traffic mode of AI training, current load balancing…
As traffic patterns and network topologies become more and more complicated in current enterprise data centers and TOP500 supercomputers, the probability of network congestion increases. If no countermeasures are taken, network congestion…
High-performance clusters and datacenters pose increasingly demanding requirements on storage systems. If these systems do not operate at scale, applications are doomed to become I/O bound and waste compute cycles. To accelerate the data…
TCP and its variants have suffered from surprisingly poor performance for decades. We argue the TCP family has little hope to achieve consistent high performance due to a fundamental architectural deficiency: hardwiring packet-level events…
In this paper, we conduct systematic measurement studies to show that the high memory bandwidth consumption of modern distributed applications can lead to a significant drop of network throughput and a large increase of tail latency in…
Recent data center applications rely on lossless networks to achieve high network performance. Lossless networks, however, can suffer from in-network deadlocks induced by hop-by-hop flow control protocols like PFC. Once deadlocks occur,…
Deep learning emerges as an important new resource-intensive workload and has been successfully applied in computer vision, speech, natural language processing, and so on. Distributed deep learning is becoming a necessity to cope with…
Connecting long-range wireless networks to the Internet imposes challenges due to vastly longer round-trip-times (RTTs). In this paper, we present an ICN protocol framework that enables robust and efficient delay-tolerant communication to…
Machine learning applied to architecture design presents a promising opportunity with broad applications. Recent deep reinforcement learning (DRL) techniques, in particular, enable efficient exploration in vast design spaces where…
Major data centre providers are introducing RDMA-based networks for their tenants, as well as for operating the underlying infrastructure. In comparison to traditional socket-based network stacks, RDMA-based networks offer higher…