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Reading Group #153. Deep Note: Can Acoustic Interference Damage the Availability of Hard Disk Storage in Underwater Data Centers?
For the 153rd reading group paper, we read something very different this time: “Deep Note: Can Acoustic Interference Damage the Availability of Hard Disk Storage in Underwater Data Centers?” This HotStorage short paper explores the possibility of using soundwaves to attack underwater data centers. In particular, the paper shows how magnetic disks can be disrupted…
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Reading Group Paper: Hyrax: Fail-in-Place Server Operation in Cloud Platforms
In the 142nd reading group meeting, we discussed “Hyrax: Fail-in-Place Server Operation in Cloud Platforms” OSDI’23 paper. Hyrax allows servers with certain types of hardware failures to return to service after some software-only automated mitigation steps. Traditionally, when a server malfunctions, the VMs are migrated off of it, then the server gets shut down and…
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Reading Group. Running BGP in Data Centers at Scale
Our 82nd reading group paper was “Running BGP in Data Centers at Scale.” This paper describes how Facebook adopted the BGP protocol, normally used at the Internet-scale, to provide routing capabilities at their datacenters. They are not the first to run BGP in the data center, but the paper is interesting nevertheless at giving some…
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