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Summary

This article revisits RAMCloud's networking and request-dispatch design in the context of low-latency RDMA-based storage systems. It explains why RAMCloud uses conventional RPC-style server processing rather than one-sided RDMA, and uses Rocksteady to show how richer storage functionality can still exploit modern NIC features.

Bibtex

@article{kulkarni:deb-ramcloud,
  author = {Chinmay Kulkarni and Aniraj Kesavan and Robert Ricci and Ryan Stutsman},
  title = {{Beyond Simple Request Processing with RAMCloud}},
  journal = {IEEE Data Engineering Bulletin},
  volume = {40},
  number = {1},
  pages = {62--69},
  year = {2017},
  url = {http://sites.computer.org/debull/A17mar/p62.pdf},
}

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