DPI – Data Processing Interface
As data processing evolves towards large scale, distributed platforms, the network will necessarily play a substantial role in achieving efficiency and performance. Increasingly, switches, network cards, and protocols are becoming more flexible while programmability at all levels (aka, software defined networks) opens up many possibilities to tailor the network to data processing applications and to push processing down to the network elements.
DPI is an interface providing a set of simple yet powerful abstractions flexible enough to exploit features of modern networks (e.g., RDMA or in-network processing) suitable for data processing. Mirroring the concept behind the Message Passing Interface (MPI) used extensively in high-performance computing, DPI is an interface definition rather than an implementation so as to be able to bridge different networking technologies and to evolve with them.
Further Resources
Researchers
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| Lasse Thostrup M.Sc. Doctoral Researcher | S2|02 D111 | +49 6151 16-25026 | lasse.thostrup@cs.tu-... |
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| Tobias Ziegler M.Sc. Doctoral Researcher | S2|02 D111 | +49 6151 16-25026 | tobias.ziegler@cs.tu-... |
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Publications
Alonso, Gustavo ; Binnig, Carsten ; Pandis, Ippokratis ; Salem, Kenneth ; Skrzypczak, Jan ; Stutsman, Ryan ; Thostrup, Lasse ; Wang, Tianzheng ; Wang, Zeke ; Ziegler, Tobias (2019):
DPI: The Data Processing Interface for Modern Networks.
Asilomar, CA, USA, www.cidrdb.org, CIDR 2019, 9th Biennial Conference on Innovative Data Systems Research, Asilomar, CA, USA, January 13-16, 2019, [Konferenzveröffentlichung]
Binnig, Carsten Meyer, Holger ; Ritter, Norbert ; Thor, Andreas ; Nicklas, Daniela ; Heuer, Andreas ; Klettke, Meike (Hrsg.) (2019):
DPI: The Data Processing Interface for Modern Networks (Extended Abstract).
S. 29-30, Bonn, Gesellschaft für Informatik, BTW 2019 – Workshopband, [Konferenzveröffentlichung]