Computer scientists scale 'layer 2' data center networks to 100,000 ports and beyond
Monday, August 17, 2009 - 17:21
in Mathematics & Economics
University of California, San Diego computer scientists have created software that they hope will lead to data centers that logically function as single, plug-and-play networks that will scale to the massive scale of modern data center networks. The software system -- PortLand -- is a fault-tolerant, layer 2 data center network fabric capable of scaling to 100,000 nodes and beyond.