[$] Moving past TCP in the data center, part1

At the recently concluded Netdev0x16 conference, which was held both in Lisbon, Portugal and virtually,Stanford professor John Ousterhout gave his personal views on wherenetworking in data centers needs to be headed. To solve the problems thathe sees, he suggested some "fairly significant changes" to thoseenvironments, including leaving behind the venerable-ubiquitous-TCPtransport protocol. While LWN was unable to attend the conference itself,due to scheduling and time-zone conflicts, we were able to view the video ofOusterhout's keynote talk to bring you this report.