Archive of posts tagged: Networking
The new life of SmartNICs
Programmable network controllers, SmartNICs, are an old concept, yet today they are seeing renewed interest and growing adoption in data centers and HPC systems. This blog post discusses the trends in modern computer networks that drive the dramatic increase of...
Cloud, Fog, Virtual Network Functions: Toward a Continuum of Computation and Communication
In this post, I argue that the traditional separation of computation and communication is not representative of the reality of current distributed systems. Instead, a more continuous perspective of computation and communication may be of value. This change requires...
The Looming Network Wall in Data-Intensive Computing
Fast, RDMA-capable networks present a “network wall” for data-intensive applications in a data center. Software developers are facing two unpalatable choices: either communicate using messages and re-implement features of TCP/IP in their application, or...
Accelerators in data centers: the systems perspective
In this blogpost I share what I learned at the Seventh Workshop on Multi-core and Rack-scale Systems (MaRS) co-located with the EuroSYS Conference on Computer Systems held in Belgrade in April. It is a small but vigorous interdisciplinary workshop that focuses on the...Subscribe
