The lead professor (John Ousterhout) has extensive experience in the industry. The project also involves a number of industrial collaborators (e.g. Jeff Dean fr

The lead professor (John Ousterhout) has extensive experience in the industry. The project also involves a number of industrial collaborators (e.g. Jeff Dean from Google). The 3.6 us you cited is only the network latency. Ousterhout and his team are working on 5us RPC calls. Why is this hard? If the program context switches three times, it will miss the 5us threshold.