Amin Vahdat

FastLane

2015

The drive towards richer and more interactive web content places increasingly stringent requirements on datacenter network performance. Applications running atop these networks typically partition an incoming query into multiple subqueries, and generate the final result …

Snap

2019

This paper presents our design and experience with a microkernel-inspired approach to host networking called Snap. Snap is a userspace networking system that supports Google's rapidly evolving needs with flexible modules that implement a range …

Swift

2020

We report on experiences with Swift congestion control in Google datacenters. Swift targets an end-to-end delay by using AIMD control, with pacing under extreme congestion. With accurate RTT measurement and care in reasoning about delay …

The Next Wave in Cloud Systems Architecture

2021 · Computer

Twenty-five years ago, no one expected services to be seamlessly and consistently delivered across campuses and edge. It is now possible to envision machine learning-powered services capable of scaling to the reliability, performance, and security …

Lightwave Fabrics: At-Scale Optical Circuit Switching for Datacenter and Machine Learning Systems

2024

We describe our experience developing what we believe to be the world’s first large-scale production deployments of lightwave fabrics used for both datacenter networking and machine-learning (ML) applications [1],[2],[3],[4]. Using optical circuit switches (OCSes) and …