Researching Disaggregated Memory

intern project, Harbin Institute of Technology (Shenzhen), 2022

Research the application of data compression in Disaggregated Memory, investigate the leading academic papers on disaggregated memory.

Main Work

  • Investigating the memory page management and the logic of swapping in and out of memory pages in the Linux kernel.
  • Developing a disaggregated memory system based on Linux frontswap interface, combined with RDMA and LZ4 data compression algorithm.

Technology

  • C
  • OS Kernel
  • RDMA