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New datacenter network architectures

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This year’s HotNets workshop was held over the past two days in the faculty club at NYU; it was nice being on old turf.   The HotNets workshop has authors write 6-page “position” or “work-in-progress” papers on current “hot topics in networking” (surprise!).  Tucked into a cosy downstairs room, the workshop was nicely intimate and it saw lots of interesting questions and discussion.

One topic that was of particular interest to me were new ideas about datacenter networking; HotNets included two papers in each of two different research areas.

The first thematic area was addressing the problem of bisectional … Continue Reading