Title :
Scale-Out Networking in the Data Center
Author :
Vahdat, Amin ; Al-Fares, Mohammad ; Farrington, Nathan ; Mysore, Radhika Niranjan ; Porter, George ; Radhakrishnan, Sivasankar
Author_Institution :
Univ. of California, San Diego, CA, USA
Abstract :
Scale-out architectures supporting flexible, incremental scalability are common for computing and storage. However, the network remains the last bastion of the traditional scale-up approach, making it the data center´s weak link. Through the UCSD Triton network architecture, the authors explore issues in managing the network as a single plug-and-play virtualizable fabric scalable to hundreds of thousands of ports and petabits per second of aggregate bandwidth.
Keywords :
computer architecture; computer centres; computer network management; UCSD Triton network architecture; data centre; incremental scalability; network managing; plug-and-play virtual fabric; scale-out architecture; Bandwidth; Biological system modeling; Computational modeling; Network topology; Optical switches; Servers; Topology; L2 fabric; datacenter network architecture; datacenter routing; merchant silicon; network fault-tolerance.; scale-out networking;
Journal_Title :
Micro, IEEE
