[Nets-seminars] [NOW, MPEB 1.03] Prof Frans Kaashoek (MIT), UCL CS Distinguished Lecture

Brad Karp B.Karp at cs.ucl.ac.uk
Wed Jan 9 10:51:35 GMT 2013


Frans Kaashoek's Distinguished Lecture begins in MPEB 1.03 at 11 AM
(in 10 minutes).

> 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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