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Dcell: a scalable and fault-tolerant network structure for data centers
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VL2: a scalable and flexible data center network
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NSDI'12 Proceedings of the 9th USENIX conference on Networked Systems Design and Implementation
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Within today's large-scale data centers, the inter-node communication is often the major bottleneck. This fact recently blooms the data center network (DCN) research. Since building a real data center is cost prohibitive, most of DCN studies rely on simulations. Unfortunately, state-of-the-art network simulators have limited support for real world applications, which prevents researchers from first-hand investigation. To address this issue, we developed a unified and cross-layer simulation framework, namely the DCNSim. By leveraging the two widely deployed simulators, DCNSim introduces computer architecture solutions into DCN research. With DCNSim, one could run packet-level network simulation driven by commercial applications while varying computer and network parameters, such as CPU frequency, memory access latency, network topology and protocols. With extensive validations, we show that DCNSim could accurately capture performance trends caused by changing computer and network parameters. Finally, we argue that future DCN researches should consider computer architecture factors via several case studies.