Remote Direct Memory Access (RDMA)

General RDMA

X-RDMA: Effective RDMA Middleware in Large-scale Production Environments (CLUSTER 2019) [Paper]
- Alibaba
- Focus on robustness, scalability, and maintainability.
FreeFlow: Software-based Virtual RDMA Networking for Containerized Clouds (NSDI 2019) [Paper] [Code]
- CMU & Microsoft & Alibaba & ByteDance
- A software-based RDMA virtualization framework designed for containerized clouds.
Revisiting Network Support for RDMA (SIGCOMM 2018) [Personal Notes] [Paper]
- UC Berkeley & ICSI & Mellanox & NYU & UW
- IRN: Better handling of packet losses; eliminate the need for PFC.
RDMA over Commodity Ethernet at Scale (SIGCOMM 2016) [Paper]
- Microsoft
- Challenges using RoCEv2; a DSCP (Differentiated Services Code Point) based PFC mechanism.
Congestion Control for Large-Scale RDMA Deployments (SIGCOMM 2015) [Paper]
- Microsoft & Mellanox & UCSB
- DCQCN: A congestion control scheme for RoCEv2, to alleviate the problems of PFC.

Fast Distributed Deep Learning over RDMA (EuroSys 2019) [Paper]
- MSRA
Towards Zero Copy Dataflows using RDMA (SIGCOMM 2017 Posters and Demos) [Paper] [Code]
- HKUST
- Merged into TensorFlow.

Empowering Azure Storage with RDMA (NSDI 2023) [Paper]
- Microsoft
- Production experience in Microsoft Azure
- Around 70% of traffic in Azure is RDMA.
When Cloud Storage Meets RDMA (NSDI 2021) [Paper]
- NJU & Alibaba
- Pangu
- Production experience in Alibaba Cloud
- Two workarounds to handle PFC storms: shutdown, RDMA/TCP switching.

Understanding RDMA Microarchitecture Resources for Performance Isolation (NSDI 2023) [Personal Notes] [Paper] [Benchmark Suite]
- Duke & Microsoft & SJTU
- Develop a test suite to evaluate RDMA performance isolation solutions.