Insight of Next Generation Computation Architecture
Key Points
Mainframe decomposed to Server, Server will be decomposed to Component Pools(CPU, storage, memory, GPU, etc.), Data Center will be refactored: Infrastructure as Code (Software Defined Data Center).
Figure 1. Gartner’s Datacenter Transformation
Key Facts
- Standards: CXL: Compute Express Link, THE CXL ROADMAP OPENS UP THE MEMORY HIERARCHY, DMTF Redfish
- Researches
- OSDI ‘18 LegoOS: A Disseminated, Distributed OS for Hardware Resource Disaggregation, a Brief Introduction, Slides Page 10 lists all resource disaggregation attemps
- ‘18 dReDBox: a Disaggregated Architectural Perspective for Data Centers
- WORD ‘19: The First Workshop on Resource Disaggregation UC Berkeley’s The Serverless Data Center: Hardware Disaggregation Meets Serverless Computing
- ‘19 One Interface to Rule them All: A Hardware/Software Co-Design for Disaggregated Computing
- ‘19 Disaggregated Data Centers: Challenges and Tradeoffs
- USENIX ATC ‘20: Effectively Prefetching Remote Memory with Leap
- VLDB ‘20: Understanding the Effect of Data Center Resource Disaggregation on Production DBMSs, VLDB: Very Large Data Bases
- SC ‘20: Towards Modular SupercomputingResource Disaggregation and Virtualization by Network-Attached Accelerators
- ‘21: Network in Disaggregated Datacenters
- WORDS ‘21: The Second Workshop On Resource Disaggregation and Serverless
- ASPLOS ‘22 Clio: A Hardware-Software Co-Designed Disaggregated Memory System
- ‘22 A Case For Intra-Rack Resource Disaggregation in HPC
- Startups:
- 2015 AyarLabs: Disaggregating System Architectures for Future HPC and AI Workloads
- 2015 Fungible: TrueFabric: A Fundamental Advance to the State of the Art in Data Center Networks, FUNGIBLE GPU-CONNECT™ – CONNECT ANY GPU TO ANY SERVER OVER ETHERNET
- 2016 LIQID, Disaggregate and Compose Your Datacenter, RESDIS ‘22, Rethink HPC Possibilities with Composable
- 2017 MemVerge, Hello VMware, and Welcome to the Big Memory Party!
- 2017 Astera Labs, Data Center Resource Disaggregation Drives Need for Cost- Effective 400/800-GbE Interconnects
- 2017 GIGAIO, Rack-Scale Composable Infrastructure
- Giants
- HPC Asia 2018: IBM’s Towards a composable computer system
- NTT R&D 2021: Feature Articles: Disaggregated Computing Will Change the World
- VMware vmworld 2021: published Project Capitola, Introducing VMware Project Capitola: Unbounding the ‘Memory Bound’, VMWARE STRETCHES ESXI TO BE A DISAGGREGATED MEMORY HYPERVISOR
- RESDIS 2022: 1st International Workshop on RESource DISaggregation in High-Performance Computing
- Intel® Rack Scale Design (Intel® RSD)
Summary
The base and most important step: low latency link protocal (network) is ready (Standard & Startups), Software for disaggreated is the opportunity. Architecture bird view from Figure 2 to Figure 5.
Figure 2. Rack Architecture Today 2 Decades Old
Figure 3. Eliminating Staranded Resources, Disaggregation Architecture
Figure 4. Disaggregated rack
Figure 5. A Transition Use Cases
IBM z Series, an unintentional attempt of resource disaggregation
- ABCs of z/OS System Programming Volume 10 Chapter 1.4 System components, Figure 1-4 System components
- Explore and make use of the advanced capabilities of the IBM z15, IBM z15 Technical Introduction, Chapter 5.2 Virtualization, Figure 5-1 Virtualization on the IBM Z platform