High speed adaptive rack-scale fabrics
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Rack-scale systems contain thousands of densely packed con- nected components. While a data center may accommodate a fully provisioned network, rack-scale systems demand a more compact and versatile network that would even up within a heavily populated system. Unless the critical path between communicating hosts is made faster, distributed rack-scale applications cannot scale. We present adaptive rack-scale fabrics, an architecture that uses Physical Layer Primitives, coupled with a Closed Ring Control. The resulting fabric uses pre-fetching techniques, but at the physical layer of the interconnect, to optimize performance within strict power-budget limitations.
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33 Built Environment and Design, 40 Engineering, 3301 Architecture
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SIGCOMM 2018 - Proceedings of the 2018 Posters and Demos, Part of SIGCOMM 2018
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SIGCOMM '18: ACM SIGCOMM 2018 Conference
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Leverhulme Trust (ECF-2016-289)
Isaac Newton Trust (1608(as))
Isaac Newton Trust (1608(as))
This work was partly funded by Microsoft Research through its PhD Scholarship Programme, the Leverhulme Trust (ECF- 2016-289) and the the Isaac Newton Trust