[Nets-seminars] Talk today at 16:00 GS/302

[Richard G. Clegg]

Don't forget today's guest speaker Richard Mortier from Nottingham.

Multiscale not Multicore: Efficient Heterogeneous Cloud Computing

abstract:

In this paper, we present a vision of the future of heterogeneous cloud 
computing. Ours is a cleanslate approach, sweeping away decades of accreted 
system software. We believe the advent of the latest technology 
discontinuity - the move to the virtual cloud - makes this a necessary step 
to take, but one capable of delivering significant benefits in the 
security, reliability and efficiency of our digital infrastructure at all 
scales.

We motivate this vision by presenting two challenges arising in different 
fields yet with fundamental commonalities best addressed by a unifying 
software platform supporting devices ranging from virtual servers in the 
cloud, through desktops, to mobile smartphones. After drawing out this 
common ground, we describe our solution and its benefits. We then describe 
the initial steps we have taken toward our solution, the Mirage framework, 
as well as ongoing future work.

-- 
Richard G. Clegg,
Dept of Elec. Eng.,
University College London
http://www.richardclegg.org/