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Network-accelerated Active Messages
Md Ashfaqur Rahaman (University of Utah), Alireza Sanaee (University of Cambridge), Todd Thornley (University of Utah), Sebastiano Miano (Politecnico di Milano), Gianni Antichi (Politecnico di Milano,Queen Mary University of London), Brent E. Stephens (Google,University of Utah), Ryan Stutsman (University of Utah)
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Network-accelerated Active Messages
Remote Direct Memory Access (RDMA) improves host networking performance by eliminating software and server CPU involvement. However, RDMA has a limited set of operations, is difficult to program, and often requires multiple round trips to perform simple application operations. Programmable SmartNICs provide a different means to offload work from host CPUs to a NIC. This leaves applications with the complex choice of embedding logic as RPC handlers at servers, using RDMA's limited interface to a…