[Cerowrt-devel] Fastpass: A Centralized "Zero-Queue" Datacenter Network

David Lang david at lang.hm
Fri Jul 18 16:27:18 PDT 2014


On Fri, 18 Jul 2014, David Lang wrote:

> On Fri, 18 Jul 2014, Jim Reisert AD1C wrote:
>
>> "Fastpass is a datacenter network framework that aims for high
>> utilization with zero queueing. It provides low median and tail
>> latencies for packets, high data rates between machines, and flexible
>> network resource allocation policies. The key idea in Fastpass is
>> fine-grained control over packet transmission times and network
>> paths."
>> 
>> Read more at....
>> 
>> http://fastpass.mit.edu/
>
> <sarcasam>
> and all it takes is making one central point aware of all the communications 
> that is going to take place so that it can coordinate everything.
>
> That is sure to scale to an entire datacenter, and beyond that to the 
> Internet
> </sarcasam>

by the way, this wasn't intended to be an attack on Jim or anyone else, please 
continue posting such links. It's important to know about even the bad ones so 
that you aren't blindsided by someone referring to them.

David Lang


More information about the Cerowrt-devel mailing list