Abstract: Examples described herein relate to prefetching content from a remote memory device to a memory tier local to a higher level cache or memory. An application or device can indicate a time availability for data to be available in a higher level cache or memory. A prefetcher used by a network interface can allocate resources in any intermediary network device in a data path from the remote memory device to the memory tier local to the higher level cache. Memory access bandwidth, egress bandwidth, memory space in any intermediary network device can be allocated for prefetch of content. In some examples, proactive prefetch can occur for content expected to be prefetched but not requested to be prefetched.

Abstract: Data is received from a plurality of processes of a distributed computing arrangement. The computing arrangement contains a plurality of processing nodes. In a first processing node of the plurality of processing nodes data objects are received from a subset of the plurality of processes. A set of non-responsive processes of the plurality of processes is determined based on arrival times of the data objects relative to a current time. The data objects are aggregated into a set of data objects without waiting for data objects associated with the non-responsive processes. The set of data objects are sent to a second processing node of the plurality of processing nodes.