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Keynote: The Physics of Thought and the Architecture of IntelligenceNSDI '262026-05-04
Maps historical 5x efficiency breaks to modern models and hardware, claims transformers delivered ~5x compute efficiency over LSTMs, and argues specialization…
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Preventing Network Bottlenecks: Accelerating Datacenter Services with Hotspot-Aware...NSDI '252025-04-28
Analysis of Google datacenter ToR hotspots shows links that persist hot for hours and often exceed 75–90% utilization, causing over 2× end-to-end latency for…
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Harmony: A Congestion-free Datacenter Architecture21st USENIX Symposium on Networked Systems Design and Implementation (NSDI '24)2024-04-16
Claims a datacenter architecture that guarantees bounded queueing at each switch so messages once sent observe a worst‑case delay and no congestion‑related…
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CAPA: An Architecture For Operating Cluster Networks With High Availability21st USENIX Symposium on Networked Systems Design and Implementation (NSDI '24)2024-04-16
Google describes CAPA as a three‑layer architecture that funnels all management changes through a thin regulation funnel that enforces best practices such as…
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Change Management in Physical Network Lifecycle AutomationUSENIX ATC '232023-07-10
Google describes a deployed system that automates physical network lifecycle changes using the MALT language and a suite of services: a model design service, a…
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Hashing Design in Modern Networks: Challenges and Mitigation TechniquesUSENIX ATC '222022-07-11
Demonstrates that limited uncorrelated hardware hash functions cause hash polarization that can lose about 33% of usable capacity; builds two deployable fixes…
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Aquila: A unified, low-latency fabric for datacenter networks19th USENIX Symposium on Networked Systems Design and Implementation (NSDI '22)2022-04-04
Aquila builds a unified datacenter fabric using a GNet cell-based L2 protocol, a custom Tin/TORonic ASIC and integrated switch, and Dragonfly topology with 40…
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Orion: Google's Software-Defined Networking Control PlaneNSDI ’212021-04-12
Orion runs Google’s second‑generation SDN control plane across Jupiter and B4, built as microservices around a pub-sub Network Information Base (NIB) and…
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Eiffel: Efficient and Flexible Software Packet SchedulingNSDI 20192019-02-26
Eiffel implements software packet scheduling around an FFS-based integer priority queue and a secondary queue to handle moving time ranges, plus an optional…
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Minimal Rewiring: Efficient Live Expansion for Clos Data Center NetworksNSDI 20192019-02-26
Claims a practical, live expansion method for Clos datacenters that avoids packet loss by adding a patch-panel layer and sequencing rewires so controllers…
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SIMON: A Simple and Scalable Method for Sensing, Inference and Measurement in...NSDI 20192019-02-26
SIMON reconstructs per-switch queue averages from edge TX/RX timestamps and a small set of probes, solves an underdetermined linear system with Lasso and then…
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Exploiting a Natural Network Effect for Scalable, Fine-grained Clock SynchronizationNSDI '182018-04-09
Software system HUYGENS synchronizes data center clocks to a few 10s of nanoseconds by combining coded probes that filter 90% of queuing-noisy samples, support…
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Andromeda: Performance, Isolation, and Velocity at Scale in Cloud Network VirtualizationNSDI '182018-04-09
Andromeda is Google Cloud’s network virtualization stack that uses a hierarchy of controllers plus Hoverboard gateways to avoid programming the long tail of…
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Keynote: Cloud Native NetworkingOpen Networking Summit 20172017-04-03
Google runs Espresso, an SDN extension to the public Internet that has been in production two years and carries a substantial fraction of traffic by replacing…
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NicPic: Scalable and Accurate End-Host Rate LimitingHotCloud '132013-06-25
Proposes NicPic: move per-class queues into host DRAM and keep only small metadata/SRAM and a tiny FIFO on the NIC, so the CPU enqueues and configures…
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