Title
DPillar: Scalable Dual-Port Server Interconnection for Data Center Networks
Abstract
Data centers are becoming increasingly important infrastructures for many essential applications such as data intensive computing and large-scale network services. A typical future data center can consist of up to hundreds of thousands of servers. Yet, the conventional data center networks are not able to keep up with the network bandwidth requirement for efficiently connecting that huge number of servers in a cost-efficient manner. In this paper, we present DPillar, a highly scalable data center interconnection architecture, which uses only low-end off-the-shelf commodity PC servers and switches. DPillar has minimal requirements for the equipment. The switches are low-cost plug-and-play layer-2 devices and servers are dual-port commodity PCs. The salient feature of DPillar is that it expands to any number of servers without requiring to physically upgrade the existing servers. We present simple yet efficient routing schemes for DPillar and evaluate the routing performance via simulations.
Year
DOI
Venue
2010
10.1109/ICCCN.2010.5560132
ICCCN
Keywords
Field
DocType
scalable dual-port server interconnection,data intensive computing,network servers,network bandwidth requirement,dpillar,data center networks,telecommunication network routing,pc servers,largescale network services,internetworking,routing performance,servers,cost efficiency,routing,data center,algorithm design and analysis,fault tolerance,layer 2
Data-intensive computing,Computer science,Server,Computer network,Internetworking,Fault tolerance,Ethernet,Interconnection,Data center,Distributed computing,Scalability
Conference
Volume
Issue
ISSN
null
null
1095-2055
ISBN
Citations 
PageRank 
978-1-4244-7114-0
19
0.79
References 
Authors
9
3
Name
Order
Citations
PageRank
Yong Liao124921.07
Dong Yin2203.17
Lixin Gao32898233.01