Re: [CCWG] Harmony: A Congestion-free Datacenter Architecture

[Hesham ElBakoury <[e-mail]>]

Thanks Reese for pointing to this draft. I will certainly read it.

Hesham

On Thu, Apr 4, 2024, 4:54 PM Reese Enghardt <[e-mail]> wrote:

> Hi Hesham,
>
> On 3/30/24 11:16, Hesham ElBakoury wrote:
> > This new paper [1] presents Harmony, "a datacenter network
> > architecture that provides “*congestion-free*” message delivery
> > guarantees with near-zero overheads compared to best-effort delivery
> > networks."
> > […]
>
> Thank you for pointing out this work, very interesting!
>
> At the CCWG session at IETF 119, we have had a great discussion on
> potential future work items, with lots of interest in working on
> solutions, especially congestion control algorithms. In addition, at the
> same session we've had quite a bit of discussion about data center
> congestion control and what considerations may go into standardizing
> algorithms here.
>
> If you haven't already, I invite you to read the most recent Editor's
> Copy of 5033bis, which lists a number of considerations that may go into
> CCWG's decision of whether to adopt a proposal in this space, should the
> authors decide to bring the work to CCWG:
>
>
> https://ietf-wg-ccwg.github.io/rfc5033bis/draft-ietf-ccwg-rfc5033bis.html#name-specifying-algorithms-for-u
>
> I hope this helps.
>
> Best,
> Reese
>
>