Reflections Of The Void: load balancing

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Tuesday, September 17, 2019

Dhcplb : DHCP load balancer. Looks really cool as it helps scale physical datacenter rapidly with the limited hassle of DHCP. It also reduces a lot of the network complexity that comes with the DHCP protocol.
Graph Processing on FPGA : survey and taxonomy on graph computations on FPGAs.
DBT : enables data analysts and engineers to transform their data using SQL language.

Google Load Balancer : Google use a N+1 model for its load balancer vs the classical Active/passive model. Really nice low level network load balancing solution.
XFabric : Reconfigurable In-Rack Network for Rack-Scale Computers
Regrid : a method of storing large files inside a RethinkDB database. Each file is stored as a series of binary chunks inside RethinkDB
NSDI16 : this year harvest of Usenix networking papers.

Micron Persistent Memory & NVDIMM : Micron announced the production of 8GB DDR4 NVDIMM. Similar to the diablo tech, viking nvdimm. However for some reason Micron decided to externalize its super-capacitor to an external module compare to the other vendor who integrated it on the stick themselves. The trade-off is that you can fit more silicon on a stick however it obviously restrict the HW they can deployed onto. [slides]
Mantle: a programmable metadata load balancer for the ceph file system. It allows the user to dynamically inject information into the Ceph load balancer in order to optimize data placement and hence performance of the overall system
How do Promises Work? : excellent coverage of the promise technology, how it works, when to use it (or not) and how to avoid some of its pitfall.

ADLB : Asynchronous Dynamic Load Balancing software library designed to help rapidly build scalable parallel programs. ADLB does not achieve scalability solely by load balancing. It also includes some features that exploit work-stealing as well. [paper]
OpenTransputer : an implementation of the Transputer architecture designed at Inmos during the 1980s. It is design to work hand in hand with occam language (but other can work with it too). What I really miss from the presentation is the CLEAR advantage of this approach over more generic or pure software one leveraging x86 arch.
Tim Ferris guide on how to rock at SXSW : nice breakdown on how to exploit to its maximum potential big gathering opportunity [video]

Links of the day 18/05/2015: NVM biblio , Author of Pegasus and Heracles PhD dissertation, Container for #apple #OSX

Pegasus and Heracles : PhD defense of David Lo presenting his result in data-center orchestration system. He developed the Pegasus and Heracles platform for Google which resulted in significant power consumption reduction as well as resources usage efficiency increase. My guess is that Google is probably running between 13x and 15x more efficient than classic data-center and the gap is growing. I m not really sure that the whole container craze is actually improving the efficiency side as fragmentation often mean more complex and difficult orchestration. Ha almost forgot the PhD defense slides are here
NVMDB : comprehensive survey of the (at last count) 340 non-volatile memory technology papers published between 2000 and 2014 in International Solid-State Circuits Conference (ISSCC), Symposia on VLSI Technology and Circuits (VLSI Technology, VLSI Circuits), and International Electron Devices Meeting (IEDM). The resulting data set provides a clear picture of how these memory technologies have evolved over time. [ Online Biblio ]
xhyve : Mac fanatic rejoice, you thought you avoided the container craze so far. But fear no more here comes the lightweight virtualization solution for OS X in all its glory. CoreOS is already talking about supporting it