CC* INTEGRATION-SMALL: ADIABATIC MICROSERVICE LEVEL LOAD BALANCED FORWARDING ON PISA SWITCH FOR ACCELERATING URGENT PROCESSES IN SCIENCE DATA CENTER NETWORKS

CC* 集成小型：PISA 交换机上的绝热微服务级负载平衡转发，用于加速科学数据中心网络中的紧急进程

• 批准号: 2346729
• 负责人: Javed Khan
• 金额: $ 50万
• 依托单位: Kent State University
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 项目类别: Standard Grant
• 财政年份: 2024
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 2024-06-01 至 2026-05-31
• 项目状态: 未结题
• 来源: https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=2346729&HistoricalAwards=false
• 关键词: CC; INTEGRATION; SMALL; ADIABATIC; MICROSERVICE

Campus science data centers (Sci. DC) increasingly need support for more varied classes of workloads, mainly because many are interactive. Sci. DCs are using virtualization for better just-in-time distributed resource provisioning. Also on the horizon are the microservices that can accelerate collaborative development at scale. Virtualization and service-based applications demand advanced functionalities, particularly load balance (LB), while the requesters and servers are dynamically moving between physical hosts at uncompromising line rates. Very recently, using programmable PISA hardware, this team was able to design a load-balancing switch, QLB, that can distribute and load-balance load groups with a general weighted-cost multi-path (WCMP) scheme while concurrently forwarding to the network’s data plane at the total line rate of the hardware. It also has today's production-scale path and application cardinality, overcoming limitations of the software-based LBs or early PISA realizations. The project aims to develop a prototype of this WCMP load balancing switch that is deployable at Sci. DC. In conjunction with smart NICs, this smart switch will be ready to offer load balancing from inside the network in multiple modalities. If successful, this technology will significantly remove the delay and scalability limitations associated with the current generation software-based load balancing in campus Sci. DCs. It will also provide early insight into security, configuration, and maintenance issues related to deploying and operating programmable switches. In line with the goals of the CC* program, this will directly contribute towards coordinated campus-level cyberinfrastructure improvements, innovation, integration, and engineering for science applications and distributed research projects. The project will provide novel exposure to programmable cyberinfrastructure - the first for Kent’s Campus IT teams and many other campuses. The project will also have a significant broader impact: it will engage undergraduate students in interdisciplinary directed research internships with STEM science teams, which is especially effective in retaining and attracting underrepresented and disadvantaged students. It will empower science projects at Kent State across disciplines.This award reflects NSF's statutory mission and has been deemed worthy of support through evaluation using the Foundation's intellectual merit and broader impacts review criteria.

校园科学数据中心 (Sci.DC) 越来越需要支持更多类别的工作负载，主要是因为许多科学数据中心正在使用虚拟化来实现更好的实时分布式资源配置。虚拟化和基于服务的应用程序需要先进的功能，特别是负载平衡 (LB)，而请求者和服务器以不妥协的线路速率在物理主机之间动态移动，该团队最近使用可编程 PISA 硬件。能够设计一种负载平衡交换机 QLB，它可以使用通用加权成本多路径 (WCMP) 方案来分配和负载平衡负载组，同时以硬件的总线路速率转发到网络的数据平面它还具有当今的生产规模路径和应用基数，克服了基于软件的 LB 或早期 PISA 实现的限制。该项目旨在开发可在 Sci DC 部署的 WCMP 负载平衡交换机原型。与智能 NIC 相结合，该智能交换机将准备好以多种方式从网络内部提供负载平衡。如果成功，该技术将显着消除与校园科学中当前一代基于软件的负载平衡相关的延迟和可扩展性限制。它还将提供与部署和操作可编程交换机相关的安全、配置和维护问题的早期洞察，这将直接有助于协调校园级网络基础设施的改进、创新和集成。 ，以及工程该项目将为肯特大学校园 IT 团队和许多其他校园提供新颖的可编程网络基础设施体验，该项目还将产生更广泛的影响：它将让本科生参与跨学科的定向研究实习。 STEM 科学团队在保留和吸引代表性不足和弱势学生方面特别有效，它将增强肯特州立大学跨学科的科学项目。该奖项反映了 NSF 的法定使命，并通过使用该奖项的评估被认为值得支持。基金会的智力价值和更广泛的影响审查标准。