[Nets-seminars] [REMINDER] UCL CS Distinguished Lecture: Prof Frans Kaashoek (MIT), 9th January, 11 AM, MPEB 1.03

Brad Karp B.Karp at cs.ucl.ac.uk
Wed Jan 9 09:30:08 GMT 2013


A final reminder to everyone of the rare treat at 11 AM this morning: a talk by Prof Frans Kaashoek of MIT, a renowned systems researcher.

Previous full talk announcement below. All strongly encouraged to attend!

See you there,
-Brad, bkarp at cs.ucl.ac.uk

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> From: Brad Karp <B.Karp at cs.ucl.ac.uk>
> Subject: UCL CS Distinguished Lecture: Prof Frans Kaashoek (MIT), 9th January, 11 AM, MPEB 1.03
> Date: January 3, 2013 6:13:52 PM GMT
> To: research at cs.ucl.ac.uk, nets <nets at cs.ucl.ac.uk>
> Cc: Brad Karp <B.Karp at cs.ucl.ac.uk>
> 
> Greetings, everyone, and happy new year.
> 
> I write with great pleasure to announce a talk by Professor Frans
> Kaashoek of MIT CSAIL. Simply put, Frans is widely regarded as one of
> the most influential computer systems and operating systems
> researchers of his generation. His Parallel and Distributed Operating
> Systems (PDOS) group at MIT is similarly widely regarded as one of the
> best computer systems research groups (if not the best) in the
> world. Frans and his group have made seminal contributions to such
> diverse areas as distributed systems (e.g., the Chord DHT, the Ivy and
> CFS distributed file systems), operating systems (e.g., the
> Exokernel), networking (e.g., the Click modular router), systems
> security (e.g., the Asbestos and Flume DIFC-based operating systems,
> the SFS secure distributed file system), and multi-core computing
> (e.g., Corey and MOSBENCH).
> 
> Frans will speak on a pressing and difficult challenge: how to design
> operating systems that scale to multi-core CPUs, so that applications
> can continue to improve in performance as the number of cores in a CPU
> continues to increase.
> 
> All are strongly encouraged to attend! Title, abstract, and bio
> follow.
> 
> -Brad, bkarp at cs.ucl.ac.uk
> 
> -------------------------------------------
> 
> UCL CS Distinguished Lecture
> 
> Speaker:
> 
>    Frans Kaashoek
>    Charles Piper Professor of Computer Science
>    MIT CSAIL
> 
> Title:
> 
>    The Multicore Evolution and Operating Systems
> 
> Time and place:
> 
>    11 AM, 9th January 2013, MPEB 1.03
> 
> Abstract:
> 
> Multicore chips with hundreds of cores will likely be available soon.
> Although many applications have significant inherent parallelism
> (e.g., mail servers), their scalability on many cores can be limited
> by the underlying operating system. We have built or modified several
> kernels (Corey, Linux, and xv6) to explore OS designs that scale with
> increasing number of cores. This talk will summarize our experiences
> by exploring questions such as what is the impact of kernel
> scalability on application scalability, is a revolution in kernel
> design necessary to achieve kernel scalability, and what limits kernel
> scalability.
> 
> Joint work with: S. Boyd-Wickizer, A. Clements, Y. Mao, A. Pesterev,
> R. Morris, and N. Zeldovich
> 
> Bio:
> 
> Frans Kaashoek is the Charles Piper Professor in MIT's Department of
> Electrical Engineering and Computer Science, and a member of the MIT
> Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence Laboratory since January
> 1993. Before joining MIT, he was a student at the department of
> Computer Science (afdeling Informatica) at the Vrije Universiteit in
> Amsterdam, the Netherlands. He received a Ph.D. degree ('92) from the
> Vrije Universiteit for his thesis Group Communication in Distributed
> Computer Systems, under the guidance of Andy Tanenbaum.
> 
> Frans's research interest is computer systems: operating systems,
> networking, programming languages, compilers, and computer
> architecture for distributed, mobile, and parallel systems.
> 
> In 1998 Frans co-founded Sightpath, Inc., which was acquired by Cisco
> Systems in 2000. He also helped found Mazu Networks, Inc., and served
> on its board until Riverbed Technology, Inc. acquired Mazu in 2009.
> 
> Frans's honors include the ACM SIGOPS Mark Weiser Award (2001), ACM
> Fellow (2004), Member of the US National Academy of Engineering
> (2006), and Fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences
> (2012).




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