Data Center Specific Networking Components

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The goal of this project is to exploit the algorithms developed by the team in which Prof. Langlois is a memberto fit in Kaloom's environment, to assess their adequacy and to develop new versions of these algorithms inorder to achieve the performance required by our industrial partner. The focus will be on the specific needs ofdata centers and the research will revolve around improving the algorithms to better fit those needs. Thescientific issues and research problems relate to typical problems in computer architecture and to the specificnature of network traffic processing. One major scientific issue is to support very large routing tables that arelarger than integrated circuits can accommodate. The size of those tables prevents using hardware-intensivesolutions like TCAMs because the hardware cost would be prohibitive. Also, software-based solutions aremuch too slow for current interconnects (up to 100 Gb/s per link). Moreover, current state-of-the-art externalmemories (DRAM and SRAM) are too slow to meet the needs. Thus, new algorithms must be devised to allowmost operations to be performed using on-chip data and to resort to external memory only very infrequently.