The 2017 Spectre and Meltdown vulnerabilities showed the world that microarchitecture security problems are real. Given the unique nature of microarchitecture security, topics and research areas discussed covered many aspects of discovery and mitigation. In order to address this important topic, the Collaboratory hosted a roundtable event on Microarchitecture Security on April 27, 2018 at […]
On April 6 2018, the Collaboratory hosted a roundtable session on Baremetal Provisioning. The focus of this roundtable was twofold: To create a roadmap for upstreaming the secure elastic baremetal provisioning capabilities of HIL, M2 (formerly BMI), and Bolted. These projects are used in and developed by the MOC and have important features for operating […]
On March 27 and 28, the Collaboratory hosted a code lab event for the ChRIS imaging platform at Red Hat’s Open Innovation Lab in Boston. ChRIS (ChRIS Research Integration Service) is a cloud-based platform developed as part of a collaborative effort between Boston Children’s Hospital, Red Hat, Boston University, and the Massachusetts Open Cloud (MOC). […]
Red Hat Collaboratory at Boston University Colloquium Timothy Roscoe Professor, Systems Group of the Computer Science Department, ETH Zurich Enzian: a research computer Abstract Academic research in rack-scale and datacenter computing today is hamstrung by lack of hardware. Cloud providers and hardware vendors build custom accelerators, interconnects, and networks for commercially important workloads, but university […]