SOSP2021

MIND: In-Network Memory Management for Disaggregated Data Centers

Seung-Seob Lee, Yanpeng Yu, Yupeng Tang, Anurag Khandelwal, Lin Zhong, Abhishek Bhattacharjee

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Abstract

Memory disaggregation promises transparent elasticity, high resource utilization and hardware heterogeneity in data centers by physically separating memory and compute into network-attached resource "blades". However, existing designs achieve performance at the cost of resource elasticity, restricting memory sharing to a single compute blade to avoid costly memory coherence traffic over the network.