Shafer et al (2010) Axon: A Flexible Substrate for Source-routed Ethernet (ANCS)
Proposed a new device to transparently use source-routed Ethernet.
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Nechaev et al (2010) A Preliminary Analysis of TCP Performance in an Enterprise Network (INM)
A paper reporting the measurement of internal traffic in LBNL from Oct 2005 to Mar 2006. The measurement is done on many individual switch ports instead of using a central measurement point, so that more traffic can be captured. The finding is with the incomplete connections erased.
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Chang et al (2006) Bigtable: A Distributed Storage System for Structured Data (OSDI)
Bigtable is a key-value mapping storage. The major key is called the row key and there can also be some minor keys called the column key. Both key and value are in arbitrary size.
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Ghemawat et al (2003) The Google File System (SOSP)
The Google File System is not as state-of-the-art as you may think. It is not a distributed file system in a strict sense (unlike global file system or GPFS). Its model has three components: The clients who uses the file system, a master server to do housekeeping and holds metadata,...
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Kandula et al (2009) The Nature of Datacenter Traffic: Measurements & Analysis (IMC)
A paper from Microsoft on data center traffic patterns.
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