SIGMOD 2021 Best Paper Award and Research Highlight for "DFI: The Data Flow Interface for High-Speed Networks”

We are pleased to announce that our paper, “DFI: The Data Flow Interface for High-Speed Networks,” has been recognized with the SIGMOD 2021 Best Paper Award and further highlighted as a Research Highlight at SIGMOD 2022. This acknowledgment is a testament to the paper's significant contribution to the field of data processing systems and network communications.

In this paper, we propose the Data Flow Interface (DFI) as a way to make it easier for data processing systems to exploit high-speed networks without the need to deal with the complexity of RDMA. By lifting the level of abstraction, DFI factors out much of the complexity of network communication and makes it easier for developers to declaratively express how data should be efficiently routed to accomplish a given distributed data processing task. As we show in our experiments, DFI is able to support a wide variety of data-centric applications with high performance at a low complexity for the applications.

Authors:

• Lasse Thostrup (TU Darmstadt)
• Jan Skrzypczak (Zuse Institute Berlin)
• Matthias Jasny (TU Darmstadt)
• Tobias Ziegler (TU Darmstadt)
• Carsten Binnig (TU Darmstadt)

The paper can be found here (opens in new tab).