PULSE: Accelerating Distributed Pointer-Traversals on Disaggregated Memory

Abstract

CPU-side caches amortize network latency in disaggregated-memory systems but cannot help workloads that chase pointers through linked data structures. PULSE is a distributed pointer-traversal framework that moves these traversals closer to disaggregated memory while preserving expressiveness, energy efficiency, performance, and distributed execution. Evaluation shows low-latency, high-throughput, and energy-efficient execution for a broad range of pointer-traversal workloads that perform poorly with caching alone.

BibTeX

@inproceedings{pulse,
  author = {Tang, Yupeng and Lee, Seung-seob and Bhattacharjee, Abhishek and Khandelwal, Anurag},
  title = {{PULSE: Accelerating Distributed Pointer-Traversals on Disaggregated Memory}},
  year = {2025},
  month = mar,
  booktitle = {ACM ASPLOS}
}