Dan Ports

Principal Researcher

Publications

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- HyperDrive: Direct Network Telemetry Storage via Programmable Switches
  
  Ziyuan Liu, Zhixiong Niu, Ran Shu, Wenxue Cheng, Lihua Yuan, Jacob Nelson, Dan R. K. Ports, Peng Cheng, Yongqiang Xiong
  
  2025 Workshop on Hot Topics in Operating Systems | March 2025
  
  DOI Publication
- Beaver: Practical Partial Snapshots for Distributed Cloud Services
  
  Liangcheng Yu, Xiao Zhang, Haoran Zhang, John Sonchack, Dan R. K. Ports, Vincent Liu
  
  OSDI 2024 | July 2024
  
  Publication Project
- Capybara: Microsecond-Scale Live TCP Migration
  
  Inho Choi, Nimesh Wadekar, Raj Joshi, Irene Zhang, Dan R. K. Ports, Jialin Li
  
  2023 Asia-Pacific Workshop on Systems | August 2023
  
  Publication Project Project
- Databases on Modern Networks: A Decade of Research that now comes into Practice
  
  Alberto Lerner, Carsten Binnig, Phillipe Cudré-Mauroux, Rana Hussein, Matthias Jasny, Theo Jepsen, Dan R. K. Ports, Lasse Thorup, Tobias Ziegler
  
  2023 Very Large Data Bases | August 2023
  
  Tutorial
  
  Publication Project
- RAMBDA: RDMA-driven Acceleration Framework for Memory-intensive us-scale Datacenter Applications
  
  Yifan Yuan, Jinghan Huang, Yan Sun, Tianchen Wang, Jacob Nelson, Dan R. K. Ports, Yipeng Wang, Ren Wang, Charlie Tai, Nam Sung Kim
  
  International Symposium on High Performance Computer Architecture (HPCA '23) | February 2023
  
  Publication Project
- A Disaggregate Data Collecting Approach for Loss-Tolerant Applications
  
  Ziyuan Liu, Zhixiong Niu, Ran Shu, Peng Cheng, Wenxue Cheng, Yongqiang Xiong, Lihua Yuan, Jacob Nelson, Dan R. K. Ports
  
  6th Asia-Pacific Workshop on Networking (APNet '22) | July 2022
  
  Publication Project
- NetVRM: Virtual Register Memory for Programmable Networks
  
  Hang Zhu, Tao Wang, Yi Hong, Dan R. K. Ports, Anirudh Sivaraman, Xin Yang
  
  USENIX NSDI 2022 | April 2022
  
  Project
- Unlocking the Power of Inline Floating-Point Operations on Programmable Switches
  
  Yifan Yuan, Omar Alama, Jiawei Fei, Jacob Nelson, Dan R. K. Ports, Amedeo Sapio, Marco Canini, Nam Sung Kim
  
  USENIX NSDI 2022 | April 2022
  
  Publication Project
- PRISM: Rethinking the RDMA Interface for Distributed Systems
  
  Sowmya Dharanipragada, Shannon Joyner, Matthew Burke, Adriana Szekeres, Jacob Nelson, Irene Zhang, Dan R. K. Ports
  
  SOSP 2021 | October 2021
  
  Publication Project
- RedPlane: Enabling Fault-Tolerant Stateful In-Switch Applications
  
  Daehyeok Kim, Jacob Nelson, Dan R. K. Ports, Vyas Sekar, Srinivasan Seshan
  
  ACM SIGCOMM 2021 | August 2021
  
  Publication Project
- Scaling Distributed Machine Learning with In-Network Aggregation
  
  Amedeo Sapio, Marco Canini, Chen-Yu Ho, Jacob Nelson, Panos Kalnis, Changhoon Kim, Arvind Krishnamurthy, Masoud Moshref, Dan R. K. Ports, Peter Richtarik
  
  NSDI 2021 | April 2021
  
  Project
- Pegasus: Tolerating Skewed Workloads in Distributed Storage with In-Network Coherence Directories
  
  Jialin Li, Jacob Nelson, Ellis Michael, Xin Jin, Dan R. K. Ports
  
  OSDI '20 | November 2020
  
  Publication Project
- SwiShmem: Distributed Shared State Abstractions for Programmable Switches
  
  Lior Zeno, Dan R. K. Ports, Jacob Nelson, Mark Silberstein
  
  HotNets '20 | November 2020
  
  Publication Project
- Multitenancy for fast and programmable networks in the cloud
  
  Tao Wang, Hang Zhu, Fabian Ruffy, Xin Jin, Anirudh Sivaraman, Dan R. K. Ports, Aurojit Panda
  
  HotCloud 2020 | July 2020
  
  Publication Project
- Meerkat: Scalable Replicated Transactions Following the Zero-Coordination Principle
  
  Adriana Szekeres, Michael Whittaker, Naveen Kr. Sharma, Jialin Li, Arvind Krishnamurthy, Dan R. K. Ports, Irene Zhang
  
  Eurosys 2020 | April 2020
  
  Publication Project
- LeapIO: Efficient and Portable Virtual NVMe Storage on ARM SoCs
  
  Huaicheng Li, Mingzhe Hao, Stanko Novakovic (stnovako), Vaibhav Gogte, Sriram Govindan, Dan R. K. Ports, Irene Zhang, Ricardo Bianchini, Haryadi S. Gunawi, Anirudh Badam
  
  Proceedings on the International Conference on Architectural Support for Programming Languages and Operating Systems (ASPLOS) | March 2020
  
  Publication Project Project
- Harmonia: Near-Linear Scalability for Replicated Storage with In-Network Conflict Detection
  
  Hang Zhu, Zhihao Bai, Jialin Li, Ellis Michael, Dan R. K. Ports, Ion Stoica, Xin Jin
  
  Proceedings of the VLDB Endowment | November 2019, Vol 13(3): pp. 376-389
  
  Publication Project
- When Should The Network Be The Computer?
  
  Dan R. K. Ports, Jacob Nelson
  
  17th Workshop on Hot Topics in Operating Systems (HotOS) | May 2019
  
  Publication Project
- Scaling Distributed Machine Learning with In-Network Aggregation
  
  Amadeo Sapio, Marco Canini, Chen-Yu Ho, Jacob Nelson, Panos Kalnis, Changhoon Kim, Arvind Krishnamurthy, Masoud Moshref, Dan R. K. Ports, Peter Richtarik
  
  MSR-TR-2019-9 | February 2019
  
  Published by KAUST
  
  Publication Project
- Pegasus: Load-Aware Selective Replication with an In-Network Coherence Directory
  
  Jialin Li, Jacob Nelson, Xin Jin, Dan R. K. Ports
  
  UW-CSE-18-12-01 | December 2018
  
  Published by University of Washington
  
  Publication Project
- Towards Causal Datacenter Networks
  
  Ellis Michael, Dan R. K. Ports
  
  Proceedings of the 2018 Workshop on Principles and Practice of Consistency for Distributed Data (PaPoC '18) | April 2018
  
  Publication
- Eris: Coordination-Free Consistent Transactions using Network Multi-Sequencing
  
  Jialin Li, Ellis Michael, Dan R. K. Ports
  
  Proceedings of the 26th ACM Symposium on Operating Systems Principles (SOSP '17) | October 2017
  
  Publication Project
- Eris: Coordination-Free Consistent Transactions using Network Multi-Sequencing (Extended Version)
  
  Jialin Li, Ellis Michael, Dan R. K. Ports
  
  UW-CSE-TR-17-10-01 | October 2017
  
  XMLSEC '02 Proceedings of the 2002 ACM workshop on XML security
  
  Publication Project
- Recovering Shared Objects Without Stable Storage
  
  Ellis Michael, Dan R. K. Ports, Naveen Kr. Sharma, Adriana Szekeres
  
  Proceedings of the 31st International Symposium on Distributed Computing (DISC '17) | October 2017
  
  Publication
- Recovering Shared Objects Without Stable Storage (Extended Version)
  
  Ellis Michael, Dan R. K. Ports, Naveen Kr. Sharma, Adriana Szekeres
  
  UW-CSE-TR-17-10-01 | October 2017
  
  Publication

- HyperDrive: Direct Network Telemetry Storage via Programmable Switches
  
  Ziyuan Liu, Zhixiong Niu, Ran Shu, Wenxue Cheng, Lihua Yuan, Jacob Nelson, Dan R. K. Ports, Peng Cheng, Yongqiang Xiong
  
  2025 Workshop on Hot Topics in Operating Systems | March 2025
  
  DOI Publication
- Beaver: Practical Partial Snapshots for Distributed Cloud Services
  
  Liangcheng Yu, Xiao Zhang, Haoran Zhang, John Sonchack, Dan R. K. Ports, Vincent Liu
  
  OSDI 2024 | July 2024
  
  Publication Project
- Capybara: Microsecond-Scale Live TCP Migration
  
  Inho Choi, Nimesh Wadekar, Raj Joshi, Irene Zhang, Dan R. K. Ports, Jialin Li
  
  2023 Asia-Pacific Workshop on Systems | August 2023
  
  Publication Project Project
- Databases on Modern Networks: A Decade of Research that now comes into Practice
  
  Alberto Lerner, Carsten Binnig, Phillipe Cudré-Mauroux, Rana Hussein, Matthias Jasny, Theo Jepsen, Dan R. K. Ports, Lasse Thorup, Tobias Ziegler
  
  2023 Very Large Data Bases | August 2023
  
  Tutorial
  
  Publication Project
- RAMBDA: RDMA-driven Acceleration Framework for Memory-intensive us-scale Datacenter Applications
  
  Yifan Yuan, Jinghan Huang, Yan Sun, Tianchen Wang, Jacob Nelson, Dan R. K. Ports, Yipeng Wang, Ren Wang, Charlie Tai, Nam Sung Kim
  
  International Symposium on High Performance Computer Architecture (HPCA '23) | February 2023
  
  Publication Project
- A Disaggregate Data Collecting Approach for Loss-Tolerant Applications
  
  Ziyuan Liu, Zhixiong Niu, Ran Shu, Peng Cheng, Wenxue Cheng, Yongqiang Xiong, Lihua Yuan, Jacob Nelson, Dan R. K. Ports
  
  6th Asia-Pacific Workshop on Networking (APNet '22) | July 2022
  
  Publication Project
- Unlocking the Power of Inline Floating-Point Operations on Programmable Switches
  
  Yifan Yuan, Omar Alama, Jiawei Fei, Jacob Nelson, Dan R. K. Ports, Amedeo Sapio, Marco Canini, Nam Sung Kim
  
  USENIX NSDI 2022 | April 2022
  
  Publication Project
- NetVRM: Virtual Register Memory for Programmable Networks
  
  Hang Zhu, Tao Wang, Yi Hong, Dan R. K. Ports, Anirudh Sivaraman, Xin Yang
  
  USENIX NSDI 2022 | April 2022
  
  Project
- PRISM: Rethinking the RDMA Interface for Distributed Systems
  
  Sowmya Dharanipragada, Shannon Joyner, Matthew Burke, Adriana Szekeres, Jacob Nelson, Irene Zhang, Dan R. K. Ports
  
  SOSP 2021 | October 2021
  
  Publication Project
- RedPlane: Enabling Fault-Tolerant Stateful In-Switch Applications
  
  Daehyeok Kim, Jacob Nelson, Dan R. K. Ports, Vyas Sekar, Srinivasan Seshan
  
  ACM SIGCOMM 2021 | August 2021
  
  Publication Project
- Scaling Distributed Machine Learning with In-Network Aggregation
  
  Amedeo Sapio, Marco Canini, Chen-Yu Ho, Jacob Nelson, Panos Kalnis, Changhoon Kim, Arvind Krishnamurthy, Masoud Moshref, Dan R. K. Ports, Peter Richtarik
  
  NSDI 2021 | April 2021
  
  Project
- SwiShmem: Distributed Shared State Abstractions for Programmable Switches
  
  Lior Zeno, Dan R. K. Ports, Jacob Nelson, Mark Silberstein
  
  HotNets '20 | November 2020
  
  Publication Project
- Pegasus: Tolerating Skewed Workloads in Distributed Storage with In-Network Coherence Directories
  
  Jialin Li, Jacob Nelson, Ellis Michael, Xin Jin, Dan R. K. Ports
  
  OSDI '20 | November 2020
  
  Publication Project
- Multitenancy for fast and programmable networks in the cloud
  
  Tao Wang, Hang Zhu, Fabian Ruffy, Xin Jin, Anirudh Sivaraman, Dan R. K. Ports, Aurojit Panda
  
  HotCloud 2020 | July 2020
  
  Publication Project
- Meerkat: Scalable Replicated Transactions Following the Zero-Coordination Principle
  
  Adriana Szekeres, Michael Whittaker, Naveen Kr. Sharma, Jialin Li, Arvind Krishnamurthy, Dan R. K. Ports, Irene Zhang
  
  Eurosys 2020 | April 2020
  
  Publication Project
- LeapIO: Efficient and Portable Virtual NVMe Storage on ARM SoCs
  
  Huaicheng Li, Mingzhe Hao, Stanko Novakovic (stnovako), Vaibhav Gogte, Sriram Govindan, Dan R. K. Ports, Irene Zhang, Ricardo Bianchini, Haryadi S. Gunawi, Anirudh Badam
  
  Proceedings on the International Conference on Architectural Support for Programming Languages and Operating Systems (ASPLOS) | March 2020
  
  Publication Project Project
- Harmonia: Near-Linear Scalability for Replicated Storage with In-Network Conflict Detection
  
  Hang Zhu, Zhihao Bai, Jialin Li, Ellis Michael, Dan R. K. Ports, Ion Stoica, Xin Jin
  
  Proceedings of the VLDB Endowment | November 2019, Vol 13(3): pp. 376-389
  
  Publication Project
- When Should The Network Be The Computer?
  
  Dan R. K. Ports, Jacob Nelson
  
  17th Workshop on Hot Topics in Operating Systems (HotOS) | May 2019
  
  Publication Project
- Scaling Distributed Machine Learning with In-Network Aggregation
  
  Amadeo Sapio, Marco Canini, Chen-Yu Ho, Jacob Nelson, Panos Kalnis, Changhoon Kim, Arvind Krishnamurthy, Masoud Moshref, Dan R. K. Ports, Peter Richtarik
  
  MSR-TR-2019-9 | February 2019
  
  Published by KAUST
  
  Publication Project
- Pegasus: Load-Aware Selective Replication with an In-Network Coherence Directory
  
  Jialin Li, Jacob Nelson, Xin Jin, Dan R. K. Ports
  
  UW-CSE-18-12-01 | December 2018
  
  Published by University of Washington
  
  Publication Project
- Towards Causal Datacenter Networks
  
  Ellis Michael, Dan R. K. Ports
  
  Proceedings of the 2018 Workshop on Principles and Practice of Consistency for Distributed Data (PaPoC '18) | April 2018
  
  Publication
- Eris: Coordination-Free Consistent Transactions using Network Multi-Sequencing (Extended Version)
  
  Jialin Li, Ellis Michael, Dan R. K. Ports
  
  UW-CSE-TR-17-10-01 | October 2017
  
  XMLSEC '02 Proceedings of the 2002 ACM workshop on XML security
  
  Publication Project
- Eris: Coordination-Free Consistent Transactions using Network Multi-Sequencing
  
  Jialin Li, Ellis Michael, Dan R. K. Ports
  
  Proceedings of the 26th ACM Symposium on Operating Systems Principles (SOSP '17) | October 2017
  
  Publication Project
- Recovering Shared Objects Without Stable Storage (Extended Version)
  
  Ellis Michael, Dan R. K. Ports, Naveen Kr. Sharma, Adriana Szekeres
  
  UW-CSE-TR-17-10-01 | October 2017
  
  Publication
- Recovering Shared Objects Without Stable Storage
  
  Ellis Michael, Dan R. K. Ports, Naveen Kr. Sharma, Adriana Szekeres
  
  Proceedings of the 31st International Symposium on Distributed Computing (DISC '17) | October 2017
  
  Publication
- Databases on Modern Networks: A Decade of Research that now comes into Practice
  
  Alberto Lerner, Carsten Binnig, Phillipe Cudré-Mauroux, Rana Hussein, Matthias Jasny, Theo Jepsen, Dan R. K. Ports, Lasse Thorup, Tobias Ziegler
  
  2023 Very Large Data Bases | August 2023
  
  Tutorial
  
  Publication Project

- HyperDrive: Direct Network Telemetry Storage via Programmable Switches
  
  Ziyuan Liu, Zhixiong Niu, Ran Shu, Wenxue Cheng, Lihua Yuan, Jacob Nelson, Dan R. K. Ports, Peng Cheng, Yongqiang Xiong
  
  2025 Workshop on Hot Topics in Operating Systems | March 2025
  
  DOI Publication
- Beaver: Practical Partial Snapshots for Distributed Cloud Services
  
  Liangcheng Yu, Xiao Zhang, Haoran Zhang, John Sonchack, Dan R. K. Ports, Vincent Liu
  
  OSDI 2024 | July 2024
  
  Publication Project
- Capybara: Microsecond-Scale Live TCP Migration
  
  Inho Choi, Nimesh Wadekar, Raj Joshi, Irene Zhang, Dan R. K. Ports, Jialin Li
  
  2023 Asia-Pacific Workshop on Systems | August 2023
  
  Publication Project Project
- Databases on Modern Networks: A Decade of Research that now comes into Practice
  
  Alberto Lerner, Carsten Binnig, Phillipe Cudré-Mauroux, Rana Hussein, Matthias Jasny, Theo Jepsen, Dan R. K. Ports, Lasse Thorup, Tobias Ziegler
  
  2023 Very Large Data Bases | August 2023
  
  Tutorial
  
  Publication Project
- RAMBDA: RDMA-driven Acceleration Framework for Memory-intensive us-scale Datacenter Applications
  
  Yifan Yuan, Jinghan Huang, Yan Sun, Tianchen Wang, Jacob Nelson, Dan R. K. Ports, Yipeng Wang, Ren Wang, Charlie Tai, Nam Sung Kim
  
  International Symposium on High Performance Computer Architecture (HPCA '23) | February 2023
  
  Publication Project
- A Disaggregate Data Collecting Approach for Loss-Tolerant Applications
  
  Ziyuan Liu, Zhixiong Niu, Ran Shu, Peng Cheng, Wenxue Cheng, Yongqiang Xiong, Lihua Yuan, Jacob Nelson, Dan R. K. Ports
  
  6th Asia-Pacific Workshop on Networking (APNet '22) | July 2022
  
  Publication Project
- Unlocking the Power of Inline Floating-Point Operations on Programmable Switches
  
  Yifan Yuan, Omar Alama, Jiawei Fei, Jacob Nelson, Dan R. K. Ports, Amedeo Sapio, Marco Canini, Nam Sung Kim
  
  USENIX NSDI 2022 | April 2022
  
  Publication Project
- NetVRM: Virtual Register Memory for Programmable Networks
  
  Hang Zhu, Tao Wang, Yi Hong, Dan R. K. Ports, Anirudh Sivaraman, Xin Yang
  
  USENIX NSDI 2022 | April 2022
  
  Project
- PRISM: Rethinking the RDMA Interface for Distributed Systems
  
  Sowmya Dharanipragada, Shannon Joyner, Matthew Burke, Adriana Szekeres, Jacob Nelson, Irene Zhang, Dan R. K. Ports
  
  SOSP 2021 | October 2021
  
  Publication Project
- RedPlane: Enabling Fault-Tolerant Stateful In-Switch Applications
  
  Daehyeok Kim, Jacob Nelson, Dan R. K. Ports, Vyas Sekar, Srinivasan Seshan
  
  ACM SIGCOMM 2021 | August 2021
  
  Publication Project
- Scaling Distributed Machine Learning with In-Network Aggregation
  
  Amedeo Sapio, Marco Canini, Chen-Yu Ho, Jacob Nelson, Panos Kalnis, Changhoon Kim, Arvind Krishnamurthy, Masoud Moshref, Dan R. K. Ports, Peter Richtarik
  
  NSDI 2021 | April 2021
  
  Project
- SwiShmem: Distributed Shared State Abstractions for Programmable Switches
  
  Lior Zeno, Dan R. K. Ports, Jacob Nelson, Mark Silberstein
  
  HotNets '20 | November 2020
  
  Publication Project
- Pegasus: Tolerating Skewed Workloads in Distributed Storage with In-Network Coherence Directories
  
  Jialin Li, Jacob Nelson, Ellis Michael, Xin Jin, Dan R. K. Ports
  
  OSDI '20 | November 2020
  
  Publication Project
- Multitenancy for fast and programmable networks in the cloud
  
  Tao Wang, Hang Zhu, Fabian Ruffy, Xin Jin, Anirudh Sivaraman, Dan R. K. Ports, Aurojit Panda
  
  HotCloud 2020 | July 2020
  
  Publication Project
- Meerkat: Scalable Replicated Transactions Following the Zero-Coordination Principle
  
  Adriana Szekeres, Michael Whittaker, Naveen Kr. Sharma, Jialin Li, Arvind Krishnamurthy, Dan R. K. Ports, Irene Zhang
  
  Eurosys 2020 | April 2020
  
  Publication Project
- LeapIO: Efficient and Portable Virtual NVMe Storage on ARM SoCs
  
  Huaicheng Li, Mingzhe Hao, Stanko Novakovic (stnovako), Vaibhav Gogte, Sriram Govindan, Dan R. K. Ports, Irene Zhang, Ricardo Bianchini, Haryadi S. Gunawi, Anirudh Badam
  
  Proceedings on the International Conference on Architectural Support for Programming Languages and Operating Systems (ASPLOS) | March 2020
  
  Publication Project Project
- When Should The Network Be The Computer?
  
  Dan R. K. Ports, Jacob Nelson
  
  17th Workshop on Hot Topics in Operating Systems (HotOS) | May 2019
  
  Publication Project
- Towards Causal Datacenter Networks
  
  Ellis Michael, Dan R. K. Ports
  
  Proceedings of the 2018 Workshop on Principles and Practice of Consistency for Distributed Data (PaPoC '18) | April 2018
  
  Publication
- Eris: Coordination-Free Consistent Transactions using Network Multi-Sequencing
  
  Jialin Li, Ellis Michael, Dan R. K. Ports
  
  Proceedings of the 26th ACM Symposium on Operating Systems Principles (SOSP '17) | October 2017
  
  Publication Project
- Recovering Shared Objects Without Stable Storage
  
  Ellis Michael, Dan R. K. Ports, Naveen Kr. Sharma, Adriana Szekeres
  
  Proceedings of the 31st International Symposium on Distributed Computing (DISC '17) | October 2017
  
  Publication
- Harmonia: Near-Linear Scalability for Replicated Storage with In-Network Conflict Detection
  
  Hang Zhu, Zhihao Bai, Jialin Li, Ellis Michael, Dan R. K. Ports, Ion Stoica, Xin Jin
  
  Proceedings of the VLDB Endowment | November 2019, Vol 13(3): pp. 376-389
  
  Publication Project
- Scaling Distributed Machine Learning with In-Network Aggregation
  
  Amadeo Sapio, Marco Canini, Chen-Yu Ho, Jacob Nelson, Panos Kalnis, Changhoon Kim, Arvind Krishnamurthy, Masoud Moshref, Dan R. K. Ports, Peter Richtarik
  
  MSR-TR-2019-9 | February 2019
  
  Published by KAUST
  
  Publication Project
- Pegasus: Load-Aware Selective Replication with an In-Network Coherence Directory
  
  Jialin Li, Jacob Nelson, Xin Jin, Dan R. K. Ports
  
  UW-CSE-18-12-01 | December 2018
  
  Published by University of Washington
  
  Publication Project
- Eris: Coordination-Free Consistent Transactions using Network Multi-Sequencing (Extended Version)
  
  Jialin Li, Ellis Michael, Dan R. K. Ports
  
  UW-CSE-TR-17-10-01 | October 2017
  
  XMLSEC '02 Proceedings of the 2002 ACM workshop on XML security
  
  Publication Project
- Recovering Shared Objects Without Stable Storage (Extended Version)
  
  Ellis Michael, Dan R. K. Ports, Naveen Kr. Sharma, Adriana Szekeres
  
  UW-CSE-TR-17-10-01 | October 2017
  
  Publication