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Data centers host diverse applications, mixing workloads that require small predictable latency with others requiring large sustained throughput. In this talk, Mohammad Alizadeh presents measurements from a 6000 server production cluster that reveals impairments with today's state-of-the-art Transmission Control Protocol (TCP) in data center environments. The impairments are rooted in TCP's demands on the limited buffer space available in commodity data center switches. He then discusses Data Center TCP (DCTCP), a new transport mechanism specifically designed for the data center that is now shipping with Windows Server 2012. DCTCP uses a simple modification to the TCP congestion control algorithm that allows it to maintain very low queue occupancy (and latency) in data center switches while simultaneously providing high throughput. Finally, he discusses HULL (for High-bandwidth Ultra-Low Latency), an architecture that builds on DCTCP to deliver baseline fabric latency (only propagation + switching) by nearly eliminating all queueing from the data center fabric.
