Title
Disaggregation and the Application
Abstract
This paper examines disaggregated data center architectures from the perspective of the applications that would run on these data centers, and challenges the abstractions that have been proposed to date. In particular, we argue that operating systems for disaggregated data centers should not abstract disaggregated hardware resources, such as memory, compute, and storage away from applications, but should instead give them information about, and control over, these resources. To this end, we propose additional OS abstractions and interfaces for disaggregation and show how they can improve data transfer in data parallel frameworks and speed up failure recovery in replicated, fault-tolerant applications. This paper studies the technical challenges in providing applications with this additional functionality and advances several preliminary proposals to overcome these challenges.
Year
Venue
DocType
2020
HotCloud
Conference
Citations 
PageRank 
References 
0
0.34
0
Authors
3
Name
Order
Citations
PageRank
Sebastian Angel1318.25
Nanavati Mihir200.34
Siddhartha Sen331235.46