Title
Dredbox: Materializing A Full-Stack Rack-Scale System Prototype Of A Next-Generation Disaggregated Datacenter
Abstract
Current datacenters are based on server machines, whose mainboard and hardware components form the baseline, monolithic building block that the rest of the system software, middleware and application stack are built upon. This leads to the following limitations: (a) resource proportionality of a multi tray system is bounded by the basic building block (mainboard), (b) resource allocation to processes or virtual machines (VNIs) is bounded by the available resources within the boundary of the mainboard, leading to spare resource fragmentation and inefficiencies, and (c) upgrades must he applied to each and every server even when only a specific component needs to be upgraded. The dRedBox project (Disaggregated Recursive Datacentre-ina-Box) addresses the above limitations, and proposes the next generation, low-power, across form-factor datacenters, departing from the paradigm of the mainboard-as-a-unit and enabling the creation of function-block-as-a-unit. Hardware-level disaggregation and software-defined wiring of resources is supported by a full-fledged Type-1 hypervisor that can execute commodity virtual machines, which communicate over a low-latency and high-throughput software-defined optical network. To evaluate its novel approach, dRedBox will demonstrate application execution in the domains of network functions virtualization, infrastructure analytics, and real-time video surveillance.
Year
Venue
Field
2018
PROCEEDINGS OF THE 2018 DESIGN, AUTOMATION & TEST IN EUROPE CONFERENCE & EXHIBITION (DATE)
Middleware,System software,Spare part,Virtual machine,Computer science,Hypervisor,Real-time computing,Resource allocation,Analytics,Recursion,Operating system
DocType
ISSN
Citations 
Conference
1530-1591
0
PageRank 
References 
Authors
0.34
0
19