January 30, 2017

Data Sharing on traffic pattern inside Facebook’s datacenter network

By: James Hongyi Zeng

Today, we are happy to announce that we are releasing packet header samples from several of our datacenters to facilitate datacenter network research. The data set has been shared with a few research groups since late last year and now it’s open to everyone. To get started, please request to join Facebook Network Analytics Data Sharing group for details and instructions.

Large cloud service providers have invested in increasingly larger datacenters to house the computing infrastructure required to support their services. Accordingly, researchers and industry practitioners alike have focused a great deal of effort designing network fabrics to efficiently interconnect and manage the traffic within these datacenters in performant yet efficient fashions.

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Continua qui: https://research.fb.com/data-sharing-on-traffic-pattern-inside-facebooks-datacenter-network/