Network support for resource disaggregation in next-generation datacenters

Authors: Sangjin Han, Norbert Egi, Aurojit Panda, Sylvia Ratnasamy, Guangyu Shi, Scott Shenker - Proceedings of the Twelfth ACM Workshop on Hot Topics in Networks 2013 cited by 162

Datacenters have traditionally been architected as a collection of servers wherein each server aggregates a fixed amount of computing, memory, storage, and communication resources. In this paper, we advocate an alternative construction in which the resources within a server are disaggregated and the datacenter is instead architected as a collection of standalone resources.