Birds of a Feather Flock Together
Sumit Kumar Monga, Sanidhya Kashyap, Changwoo Min
Abstract
RDMA-capable networks are gaining traction with datacenter deployments due to their high throughput, low latency, CPU efficiency, and advanced features, such as remote memory operations. However, efficiently utilizing RDMA capability in a common setting of high fan-in, fan-out asymmetric network topology is challenging. For instance, using RDMA programming features comes at the cost of connection scalability, which does not scale with increasing cluster size. To address that, several works forgo some RDMA features by only focusing on conventional RPC APIs.
Topics & Concepts
Remote direct memory accessScalabilityComputer scienceLatency (audio)Distributed computingLow latency (capital markets)Computer networkOperating systemParallel computingTelecommunicationsCloud Computing and Resource ManagementAdvanced Data Storage TechnologiesDistributed systems and fault tolerance