Disaggregated heterogeneous data centers promise higher efficiency, lower total costs of ownership, and more flexibility for data-center operators. However, current software stacks can levy a high tax on application performance. Applications and OSes are designed for systems where local PCIe-connected devices are centrally managed by CPUs, but this centralization introduces unnecessary messages through the shared data-center network in a disaggregated system. We present FractOS, a distributed OS that is designed to minimize the network overheads of disaggregation in heterogeneous data centers. FractOS elevates devices to be first-class citizens, enabling direct peer-to-peer data transfers and task invocations among them, without centralized application and OS control. FractOS achieves this through: (1) new abstractions to express distributed applications across services and disaggregated devices, (2) new mechanisms that enable devices to securely interact with each other and other data-center services, (3) a distributed and isolated OS layer that implements these abstractions and mechanisms, and can run on host CPUs and SmartNICs. Our prototype shows that FractOS accelerates real-world heterogeneous applications by 47%, while reducing their network traffic by 3×.
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Vilanova, L., Maudlej, L., Bergman, S., Miemietz, T., Hille, M., Asmussen, N., … Silberstein, M. (2022). Slashing the Disaggregation Tax in Heterogeneous Data Centers with FractOS. In EuroSys 2022 - Proceedings of the 17th European Conference on Computer Systems (pp. 352–367). Association for Computing Machinery, Inc. https://doi.org/10.1145/3492321.3519569
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