A typical Datacenter architecture will be introduced along with the various bottlenecks it experiences. We would then look at the newer Datacenter designs and how it improves their performance/throughput. Finally, we will look at the relatively new found Networking issues like TCP Incast, TCP Outcast, etc We will start by looking at the typical Core-Access-Edge architecture and we will compare it with other architectures like Leaf-Spine, Fat-Tree etc.

Network-intensive applications, like networked storage or clustered computing, require a network infrastructure with high bandwidth and low latency. Remote Direct Memory Access (RDMA) supports zero-copy data transfers by enabling movement of data directly to or from application memory. This results in high bandwidth, low latency networking with little involvement from the CPU.

NVMe-oF drives can support NVMe over ethernet, but how do you manage them? What are the challenges of managing multiple drives at scale? This presentation will show how Swordfish has developed a standard model for not only NVMe ethernet-attached drives, but also Ethernet-enabled enclosures (EBOFs), providing a scalable, standardized manageability solution.