Abstract
Computing systems servers -low- or high-end ones have been traditionally designed and built using a main-board and its hardware components as a “hard” monolithic building block; this formed the base unit on which the system hardware and software stack design build upon. This hard deployment and management border on compute, memory, network and storage resources
is either fixed or quite limited in expandability during design time and in practice remains so throughout machine lifetime as subsystem upgrades are seldomely employed. The impact of this rigidity has well known ramifications in terms of lower system resource utilization, costly upgrade cycles and degraded energy proportionality.
In the dReDBox project we take on the challenge of breaking the server boundaries through materialization of the concept of disaggregation. The basic idea of the dReDBox architecture is to use a core of high-speed, low-latency opto-electronic fabric that will bring physically distant components more closely in terms of latency and bandwidth. We envision a powerful software-defined control plane that will match the flexibility of the system to the resource needs of the applications (or VMs) running in the system. Together the hardware, interconnect, and software architectures will enable the creation of a modular, vertically-integrated system that will form a datacenter-in-a-box.
is either fixed or quite limited in expandability during design time and in practice remains so throughout machine lifetime as subsystem upgrades are seldomely employed. The impact of this rigidity has well known ramifications in terms of lower system resource utilization, costly upgrade cycles and degraded energy proportionality.
In the dReDBox project we take on the challenge of breaking the server boundaries through materialization of the concept of disaggregation. The basic idea of the dReDBox architecture is to use a core of high-speed, low-latency opto-electronic fabric that will bring physically distant components more closely in terms of latency and bandwidth. We envision a powerful software-defined control plane that will match the flexibility of the system to the resource needs of the applications (or VMs) running in the system. Together the hardware, interconnect, and software architectures will enable the creation of a modular, vertically-integrated system that will form a datacenter-in-a-box.
| Original language | English |
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| Title of host publication | 2016 European Conference on Networks and Communications (EuCNC 2016) |
| Subtitle of host publication | Proceedings of a meeting held 27-29 June 2016, in Athens, Greece |
| Publisher | Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE) |
| Pages | 235-239 |
| Number of pages | 5 |
| ISBN (Electronic) | 9781509028931 |
| ISBN (Print) | 9781509028948 |
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| Publication status | Published - Oct 2016 |
| Event | 2016 European Conference on Networks and Communications, EUCNC 2016 - Athens, Greece Duration: 27 Jun 2016 → 30 Jun 2016 |
Conference
| Conference | 2016 European Conference on Networks and Communications, EUCNC 2016 |
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| Country/Territory | Greece |
| City | Athens |
| Period | 27/06/16 → 30/06/16 |