Disaggregated rack-scale data centers have been proposed as the only promising avenue to break the barrier of the fixed CPU-to-memory proportionality caused by main-tray direct-attached conventional/traditional server-centric systems. However, memory disaggregation has stringent network requirements in terms of latency, energy efficiency, bandwidth, and bandwidth density. This paper identifies all the requirements and key performance indicators of a network to disaggregate IT resources while summarizing the progress and importance of optical interconnects. Crucially, it proposes a rack-and-cluster scale architecture, which supports the disaggregation of CPU, memory, storage, and/or accelerator blocks. Optical circuit switching forms the core of this architecture, whereas the end-points (IT resources) are equipped with on-chip programmable hybrid electrical packet/circuit switches. This architecture offers dynamically reconfigurable physical topology to form virtual ones, each embedded with a set of functions. It analyzes the latency overhead of disaggregated DDR4 (parallel) and the proposed hybrid memory cube (serial) memory elements on the conventional and the proposed architecture. A set of resource allocation algorithms are introduced to (1) optimally select disaggregated IT resources with the lowest possible latency, (2) pool them together by means of a virtual network interconnect, and (3) compose virtual disaggregated servers. Simulation findings show up to a 34% resource utilization increase over traditional data centers while highlighting the importance of the placement and locality among compute, memory, and storage resources. In particular, the network-aware locality-based resource allocation algorithm achieves as low as 15 ns, 95 ns, and 315 ns memory transaction round-trip latency on 63%, 22%, and 15% of the allocated virtual machines (VMs) accordingly while utilizing 100% of the CPU resources. Furthermore, a formulation to parameterize and evaluate the additional financial costs endured by ...


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    Titel :

    Optically Disaggregated Data Centers With Minimal Remote Memory Latency: Technologies, Architectures, and Resource Allocation


    Beteiligte:
    Zervas, G (Autor:in) / Yuan, H (Autor:in) / Saljoghei, A (Autor:in) / Chen, Q (Autor:in) / Mishra, V (Autor:in)

    Erscheinungsdatum :

    01.02.2018


    Anmerkungen:

    Journal of Optical Communications and Networking , 10 (2) A270-A285. (2018)


    Medientyp :

    Aufsatz (Zeitschrift)


    Format :

    Elektronische Ressource


    Sprache :

    Englisch



    Klassifikation :

    DDC:    629



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