Key-value store cluster with programmability in NICs and switches CSE551 Final Report

Today’s data center applications such as key-value stores generally run on multiple servers and on multiple cores for each sever in order to be able to handle the request loads. As a consequence, a steering and load-balancing decision needs to be made for each request about which server and core it should be handled by. Table 1 provides an overview of common approaches to load balancing, and how they are implemented for balancing across servers and across machines.