{"id":13927,"date":"2018-03-28T16:55:24","date_gmt":"2018-03-28T20:55:24","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/hic\/?p=13927"},"modified":"2018-05-22T12:58:48","modified_gmt":"2018-05-22T16:58:48","slug":"rhcollab-mothy-roscoe","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/hic\/2018\/03\/28\/rhcollab-mothy-roscoe\/","title":{"rendered":"Red Hat Collaboratory Hosts Colloquium Featuring Mothy Roscoe (ETH Zurich)"},"content":{"rendered":"

Mothy Roscoe<\/a>,\u00a0ETH Zurich<\/strong>
\nThursday, April 19, 2018, 4:00 pm – 5:00 pm<\/span>
\nRefreshments & networking at 3:45 PM
\n<\/span>Hariri Institute for Computing (MCS 180)<\/span>
\n111 Cummington Mall
\nBoston, MA 02215<\/span><\/p>\n

A partnership between Red Hat and Boston University, the Red Hat Collaboratory<\/a> connects BU faculty and students with industry practitioners working in open-source software communities. The Collaboratory aims to advance research and training initiatives focused on a variety of emerging technologies including operating systems, cloud computing services, machine learning and automation, and big data platforms.<\/p>\n

Enzian: a research computer<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n

Abstract:\u00a0<\/strong>Academic research in rack-scale and datacenter computing today is hamstrung by lack of hardware.\u00a0 Cloud providers and hardware vendors build custom accelerators, interconnects, and networks for commercially important workloads, but university researchers are stuck with commodity, off-the-shelf parts.\u00a0<\/strong>Enzian is a research computer being developed at ETH Zurich (in collaboration with Cavium and Xilinx) which addresses this problem.\u00a0 An Enzian board consists of a server-class ARMv8 SoC tightly coupled and coherent with a large FPGA (eliminating PCIe), with about 0.5 TB DDR4 and nearly 500 Gb\/s of network I\/O either to the CPU (over Ethernet) or directly to the FPGA (potentially over custom protocols).\u00a0 Enzian runs both Barrelfish and Linux operating systems.\u00a0 Many Enzian boards can be connected in a rack-scale machine (either with or without a discrete switch) and the design is intended to allow many different research use-cases: zero-overhead run-time verification of software invariants, novel interconnect protocols for remote memory access, hardware enforcement of access control in a large machine, high-performance streaming analytics using a combination of software and configurable hardware, and much more.<\/p>\n

By providing a powerful and flexible platform for computer systems research, Enzian aims to enable more relevant and far-reaching work on future computer platforms.<\/p>\n

Bio:<\/strong>\u00a0Timothy Roscoe has been a Full Professor in the Systems Group<\/a> of the <\/a>Computer Science Department<\/a> at <\/a>ETH Zurich<\/a> since 2007. He works on operating systems, networks, and distributed systems, including the Barrelfish research OS<\/a> and the <\/a>Strymon<\/a> high-performance stream processor for datacenter monitoring. He received a PhD in 1995 from the Computer Laboratory<\/a> of the <\/a>University of Cambridge<\/a>, where he was a principal designer and builder of the Nemesis OS<\/a>.<\/p>\n

After three years working on web-based collaboration systems at a startup in North Carolina, Mothy joined Sprint<\/a>‘s Advanced Technology Lab in Burlingame, California in 1998, working on cloud computing and network monitoring, and spent time as an Industrial Fellow at the <\/a>University of California at Berkeley Computer Science<\/a>\u00a0department, working with the Oceanstore<\/a> project.<\/p>\n

He joined Intel<\/a> Research at Berkeley in April 2002 as a principal architect of <\/a>PlanetLab<\/a>, an open, shared platform for developing and deploying planetary-scale services, and worked on Declarative Networking<\/a>, while becoming an Adjunct Professor at Berkeley.<\/p>\n

In September 2006 he spent four months as a visiting researcher in the Embedded and Real-Time Operating Systems<\/a> group at National ICT Australia in Sydney, which was developing the seL4 microkernel<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Since joining ETH Zurich he has also spent time at Microsoft Research<\/a>, Intel Research, and the University of Washington<\/a>.<\/p>\n

His current research interests include monitoring, modelling, and managing complex enterprise datacenters, system software for modern hardware, and system hardware for modern software. He was named Fellow of the ACM in 2013 for contributions to operating systems and networking research.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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