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MTP: Transport for In-Network Computing

In-network computing (INC) is being increasingly adopted to accelerate applications by offloading part of the applications’ computation …

Tao Ji, Rohan Vardekar, Balajee Vamanan, Brent E. Stephens, Aditya Akella

Enabling Portable and High-Performance SmartNIC Programs with Alkali

Trends indicate that emerging SmartNICs, either from different vendors or generations from the same vendor, exhibit substantial …

Jiaxin Lin, Zhiyuan Guo, Mihir Shah, Tao Ji, Yiying Zhang, Daehyeok Kim, Aditya Akella

Yama: Providing Performance Isolation for Black-Box Offloads

The sharing of clusters with various on-NIC offloads by high-level entities (users, containers, etc.) has become increasingly common. …

Tao Ji, Divyanshu Saxena, Brent E. Stephens, Aditya Akella

Resilient Baseband Processing in Virtualized RANs with Slingshot

In cellular networks, there is a growing adoption of virtualized radio access networks (vRANs), where operators are replacing the …

Nikita Lazarev, Tao Ji (co-first author), Anuj Kalia, Daehyeok Kim, Ilias Marinos, Francis Y. Yan, Christina Delimitrou, Zhiru Zhang, Aditya Akella

Towards Accelerating Data Intensive Application's Shuffle Process Using SmartNICs

The wide adoption of the emerging SmartNIC technology creates new opportunities to offload application-level computation into the …

Jiaxin Lin, Tao Ji, Xiangpeng Hao, Hokeun Cha, Yanfang Le, Xiangyao Yu, Aditya Akella

Memory Deduplication for Serverless Computing with Medes

Serverless platforms today impose rigid trade-offs between resource use and user-perceived performance. Limited controls, provided via …

Divyanshu Saxena, Tao Ji, Arjun Singhvi, Junaid Khalid, Aditya Akella

TCP is Harmful to In-Network Computing: Designing a Message Transport Protocol (MTP)

This paper presents the motivation and design of MTP, a new offload-friendly message transport protocol. Existing transport protocols …

Brent E. Stephens, Darius Grassi, Hamidreza Almasi, Tao Ji, Balajee Vamanan, Aditya Akella