Nam Sung Kim

BabelFish: Fusing Address Translations for Containers

2020

Cloud computing has begun a transformation from using virtual machines to containers. Containers are attractive because multiple of them can share a single kernel, and add minimal performance overhead. Cloud providers leverage the lean nature …

ORCA: A Network and Architecture Co-design for Offloading us-scale Datacenter Applications

2022 · arXiv (Cornell University)

Responding to the "datacenter tax" and "killer microseconds" problems for datacenter applications, diverse solutions including Smart NIC-based ones have been proposed. Nonetheless, they often suffer from high overhead of communications over network and/or PCIe links. …

Making Sense of Using a SmartNIC to Reduce Datacenter Tax from SLO and TCO Perspectives

2023

The speed of network interfaces has rapidly increased, while the performance and energy efficiency of CPUs have not, due to the demise of Dennard scaling. As a result, functions processing network packets have become responsible …