Towards a fully disaggregated and programmable data center
Yizhou Shan, Will Y. Lin, Zhiyuan Guo, Yiying Zhang
Abstract
Today, we are seeing two trends in the data center. On the one hand, applications are becoming more fine-grained, driven by the recent trend of serverless computing and microservices. On the other hand, data-center hardware is becoming more heterogeneous and customized to different computing needs. Because of these trends and for better manageability, several major data centers are moving towards a disaggregated architecture, where different hardware resources like storage and accelerators are organized as independent, network-attached pools. However, data centers today are still server-centric and relies heavily on traditional CPU-based servers.
Topics & Concepts
ServerComputer scienceMicroservicesData centerArchitectureCenter (category theory)Operating systemFile serverDistributed computingCloud computingChemistryArtVisual artsCrystallographyCloud Computing and Resource ManagementSoftware-Defined Networks and 5GCaching and Content Delivery