Disaggregated Recursive Datacentre-in-a-Box (dRedBox)

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Developing optical networks and computer architectures to disaggregate processors from memory and accelerators towards ultimate disaggregated Rack-Scale Data Centres.
 

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Funder Horizon 2020
Amount £ 515 000

Project website http://www.dredbox.eu/

Research topics Optical interconnects | Data Centre Networks | Computer architectures | Reconfigurable computing

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Description

In today’s cloud data centres, the physical system is composed of individual server units contributing processing, memory, accelerators and storage resources. However, this arrangement incurs a significant waste of these resources as well as low power utilisation, due to the inherent inability to closely match user IT requirements to the resources available within a single server or sets of servers. The challenge in this arrangement is to be more efficient, flexible and agile with these resources. dReDBox aspires to create a pooled-computing model, enabling an arbitrary sizing of disaggregated IT resources, deploying them where and when required, to perfectly match cloud user requirements. The consortium plans to deliver a full-fledged, vertically integrated data centre-in-a-box prototype to showcase the superiority of disaggregation in terms of scalability, efficiency, reliability, performance and energy reduction.

Outputs

Publications

• Katrinis, K., et al. "Rack-scale disaggregated cloud data centers: The dReDBox project vision." 2016 Design, Automation & Test in Europe Conference & Exhibition (DATE). IEEE, 2016.
• Katrinis, K., et al. "On Interconnecting and Orchestrating Components in Disaggregated Data Centers: The dReDBox Project Vision", European Conference on Networks and Communications (EuCNC) 2016
• Bielski, M., Pinto, C., Raho, D., Pacalet, R., "Survey on memory and devices disaggregation solutions for HPC systems", 19th IEEE International Conference onComputational Science and Engineering (CSE 2016)
• Liu, Y., Yuan, H., Peters, A., Zervas, G., "Comparison of SDM and WDM on Direct and Indirect Optical Data Centre Networks", ECOC 2016
• Mishra, V., Chen, Q., Zervas, G., “REoN: A Protocol for Reliable Software-Defined FPGA Partial Reconfiguration over Network”, IEEE Reconfig 2016, Nov-Dec 2016
• Chen, Q., Mishra, V., Zervas, G., “Reconfigurable Computing for Network Function Virtualization: A Protocol Independent Switch”, IEEE Reconfig 2016, , Nov-Dec 2016
• J.F. Zazo, S. Lopez-Buedo, G. Sutter, J. Aracil, "Automated synthesis of FPGA-based packet filters for 100 Gbps network monitoring applications”. 2016
• International Conference on Reconfigurable Computing and FPGAs (ReConFig 2016). (View Preprint)
• M. Ruiz, G. Sutter, S. Lopez-Buedo, J.E. Lopez de Vergara,  "FPGA-based encrypted network traffic discrimination at 100 Gb/s”, 2016
• International Conference on Reconfigurable Computing and FPGAs (ReConFig 2016). (View Preprint)
• Adaranijo Peters, Georgios Zervas, "Network Synthesis of a Topology Reconfigurable Disaggregated Rack Scale Datacentre for Multi-Tenancy", OFC 2017
• Qianqiao Chen, Vaibhawa Mishra, Nick Parsons, Georgios Zervas, “Hardware Programmable Network Function Service Chain on Optical Rack-Scale Data Centers”, OFC 2017
• G. Zervas, F. Jiang, Q. Chen, V. Mishra, H. Yuan, K. Katrinis, D. Syrivelis, A.Reale, D. Pnevmatikatos, M. Enrico, N. Parsons, “Disaggregated Compute, Memory and Network Systems: A New Era for Optical Data Centre Architectures”, OFC 2017
• N. Pleros, N. Terzenidis, T. Alexoudi, D. Syrivelis, K. Vyrsokinos, and G.T. Kanellos, "Software-Defined Board- and Chip-level Optical Interconnects for Multi-Socket communication and Disaggregated Computing". HiPEAC 2017, 23-25 Jan. Stockholm, Sweden.
• M. Moralis-Pegios, N. Terzenidis, C. Vagionas, S. Pitris, E. Chatzianagnostou, A. Brimont, A. Zanzi, P. Sanchis, J. Marti-Sendra, J. Kraft, K.Rochracher, S. Dorrestein, B. Sirbu, T. Tekin, D. Syrivelis, L. Tassiulas, A. N. Milliou, N. Pleros, K. Vyrsokinos, “A programmable Si-photonic node for SDN-enabled Bloom filter forwarding in disaggregated data centers”, SPIE Photonics West, 28-2 Feb. San Francisco, CA, USA
• D. Theodoropoulos, "Disaggregated Recursive Datacentre-in-a-Box", Hipeac Info 49, January 2017
• N. Alachiotis, D. Theodoropoulos, D. Pnevmatikatos, "Versatile Reconfigurable Acceleration in Data Centers: a Bioinformatics Case Study", EnESCE: Workshop on Energy-efficient Servers for Cloud and Edge Computing, HiPEAC, 23-25 Jan 2017, Stockholm Sweden
• D. Pnevmatikatos, "Rack-scale Disaggregated Cloud Datacenters & the dReDBox project", MULTIPROG-2017, HiPEAC 2017, 23-25 Jan 2017, Stockholm, Sweden.
• M. Drumond, A. Daglis, N. Mirzadeh, D. Ustiugov, J. Picorel, B. Falsafi, B. Grot, D. Pnevmatikatos, "The Mondrian Data Engine", The 44th International Symposium on Computer Architecture, Toronto, ON, Canada, June 24-28, 2017
• D. Theodoropoulos, N. Alachiotis and D. Pnevmatikatos, "FPGA-based Evaluation Platform for Disaggregated Computing", 2017 International Conference on Embedded Computer Systems: Architectures, Modeling, and Simulation (SAMOS XVII) (Preprint) (ppt)
• H. Meyer,  J.C. Sancho, J. Quiroga, F. Zyulkyarov, D. Roca, M. Nemirovsky, "Disaggregated Computing. An Evaluation of Current Trends for Datacentres". In Proceedings of the International Conference on Computational Science (ICCS) 2017 (preprint).
• D. Syrivelis , A. Reale , K. Katrinis , I. Syrigos, M. Bielski, D. Theodoropoulos, D. N. Pnevmatikatos and G. Zervas, "A Software-defined Architecture and Prototype for Disaggregated Memory Rack Scale Systems",  2017 International Conference on Embedded Computer Systems: Architectures, Modelling, and Simulation (SAMOS XVII)​
• C. Vega, J. F. Zazo, H. Meyer, F. Zyulkyarov, S. Lopez-Buedo and J. Aracil, “Diluting the Scalability Boundaries: Exploring the Use of Disaggregated Architectures for High-Level Network Data Analysis”, accepted for publication to the IEEE International Conference on High Performance Computing and Communications (HPCC) 2017 (preprint)
• D. Theodoropoulos, N. Alachiotis, D. Pnevmatikatos, “Multi-FPGA Evaluation Platform for Disaggregated Computing”, IEEE International Symposium on Field-Programmable Custom Computing Machines, April 2017 (Preprint)
• H. Liu, A. Peters, M. Garrich, and G. Zervas, “OSNR Aware Composition of Open and Disaggregated Optical Node and Network”, IEEE Journal of Optical Communications and Networking (JOCN), accepted for publication.
• N. Alachiotis, D. Theodoropoulos, D. Pnevmatikatos, “Versatile Deployment of FPGA Accelerators in Disaggregated Data Centers: a Bioinformatics Case Study”, International Conference on Field-Programmable Logic and Applications, September 2017 (preprint) (ppt) (poster)