TY - GEN
T1 - DReDBox
T2 - Design, Automation and Test in Europe Conference and Exhibition, DATE 2018
AU - Bielski, M.
AU - Syrigos, I.
AU - Katrinis, K.
AU - Syrivelis, D.
AU - Reale, A.
AU - Theodoropoulos, D.
AU - Alachiotis, N.
AU - Pnevmatikatos, D.
AU - Pap, E. H.
AU - Zervas, G.
AU - Mishra, V.
AU - Saljoghei, A.
AU - Rigo, A.
AU - Fernando Zazo, J.
AU - Lopez-Buedo, S.
AU - Torrents, M.
AU - Zyulkyarov, F.
AU - Enrico, M.
AU - Gonzalez De DIos, O.
N1 - Publisher Copyright:
© 2018 EDAA.
PY - 2018/4/19
Y1 - 2018/4/19
N2 - 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 (VMs) is bounded by the available resources within the boundary of the mainboard, leading to spare resource fragmentation and inefficiencies, and (c) upgrades must be applied to each and every server even when only a specific component needs to be upgraded. The dRedBox project (Disaggregated Recursive Datacentre-in-a-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.
AB - 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 (VMs) is bounded by the available resources within the boundary of the mainboard, leading to spare resource fragmentation and inefficiencies, and (c) upgrades must be applied to each and every server even when only a specific component needs to be upgraded. The dRedBox project (Disaggregated Recursive Datacentre-in-a-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.
UR - http://www.scopus.com/inward/record.url?scp=85048738654&partnerID=8YFLogxK
U2 - 10.23919/DATE.2018.8342174
DO - 10.23919/DATE.2018.8342174
M3 - Conference contribution
AN - SCOPUS:85048738654
T3 - Proceedings Design, Automation and Test in Europe Conference and Exhibition, (DATE)
SP - 1093
EP - 1098
BT - Proceedings of the 2018 Design, Automation and Test in Europe Conference and Exhibition, DATE 2018
PB - IEEE
CY - Piscataway, NJ
Y2 - 19 March 2018 through 23 March 2018
ER -