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- Spring 2010: initial work on the RPC transport system (e.g. first implementation of Buffer class). Ryan and Steve are still busy studying for quals. Aravind graduates.
- Summer 2010: the implementation gets underway in earnest. The basic RPC system comes to life with several different transports, including first implementation FastTransport.
- July 2010: white paper accepted for publication in CACM.
- Fall 2010: focus shifts to fast recovery: can we implement and evaluate this in time for SOSP paper submission deadline of March 18, 2011?
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- March, 2011: Nandu's measurements show that RAMCloud is achieving 5μs RPCs for 100-byte reads; a single server can handle more than 1M RPCs/second. These measurements were taken with the 40-node cluster using Mellanox Infiniband networking.
- March 18, 2011: SOSP paper submitted.