Publications

NSDI 2025 (Poster)
A Smart Cache for a SmartNIC! Rethinking Caching, Locality, & Revalidation for Modern Virtual Switches
Annus Zulfiqar, Ali Imran, Venkat Kunaparaju, Ben Pfaff, Gianni Antichi, Muhammad Shahbaz

ASPLOS 2025
Gigaflow: Pipeline-Aware Sub-Traversal Caching for Modern SmartNICs
Annus Zulfiqar, Ali Imran, Venkat Kunaparaju, Ben Pfaff, Gianni Antichi, Muhammad Shahbaz

Hot Chips 2024 (Poster)
Gigaflow: A Smart Cache for a SmartNIC!
Annus Zulfiqar, Ali Imran, Venkat Kunaparaju, Ben Pfaff, Gianni Antichi, Muhammad Shahbaz

SIGCOMM CCR 2023
The Slow Path Needs an Accelerator Too!
Annus Zulfiqar, Ben Pfaff, William Tu, Gianni Antichi, Muhammad Shahbaz

Team

• Annus Zulfiqar (University of Michigan)
• Ali Imran (University of Michigan)
• Venkat Kunaparaju (Purdue University)
• Ben Pfaff (Feldera)
• Gianni Antichi (Politechnico di Milano)
• Muhammad Shahbaz (University of Michigan)

Cite Our Work

Please cite this paper when using Gigaflow:

@inproceedings{zulfiqar2025gigaflow,
title = {{Gigaflow: Pipeline-Aware Sub-Traversal Caching for Modern SmartNICs}},
author = {Zulfiqar, Annus and Imran, Ali and Kunaparaju, Venkat and Pfaff, Ben and Antichi, Gianni and Shahbaz, Muhammad},
booktitle = {Proceedings of the 30th ACM International Conference on Architectural Support for Programming Languages and Operating Systems, Volume 2},
year = {2025}
publisher = {Association for Computing Machinery},
}

Technical Deepdive

We maintain detailed documentation about Gigaflow:

• Getting Started and Usage
• Architecture and Implementation
• Performance Analysis

Contact Us

For research-related queries or collaborations:

• Email: zulfiqaa@umich.edu