TeRM - Extending RDMA-Attached Memory with SSD

Explore a groundbreaking approach to extending RDMA-attached memory with SSD in this 23-minute conference talk from FAST '24. Delve into the innovative TeRM system, designed to overcome capacity limitations of physical memory in RDMA-based in-memory storage systems. Learn how TeRM achieves fast remote access on SSD-extended memory by eliminating page faults of RDMA NIC and CPU from the critical path. Discover a set of techniques introduced to reduce CPU and network resource consumption. Examine evaluation results showing TeRM's performance close to the ideal upper bound where all pages are pinned in physical memory. Compare TeRM's significant performance improvements for unmodified RDMA-based storage systems, including file systems and key-value systems, against existing approaches. Gain insights from researchers at Tsinghua University and Huawei Technologies as they present their findings on this cutting-edge technology.