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Next Friday 31st February our speaker is George Parisis from
Sussex. The talk is on 31st January at 16:00 in the main
Engineering Building room 807 -- if you are not a member of UCL
staff please let me know so I can arrange access. There have been a
couple of changes to speakers this term (see order at the bottom of
this email).<br>
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Title:<br>
Trevi: Watering Down Storage Hotspots with Cool Fountain Codes<br>
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Abstract:<br>
Datacenter networking has brought high-performance storage systems'
research to the foreground once again. Many modern storage systems
are built with commodity hardware and TCP/IP networking to save
costs. In this talk, I will highlight a group of problems that are
present in such storage systems and which are all related to the use
of TCP. As an alternative, I will discuss Trevi: a fountain
coding-based approach for distributing I/O requests that promises to
overcome these problems while still efficiently scheduling resources
across both networking and storage layers. I will also discuss how
receiver-driven flow and congestion control, in combination with
fountain coding, can guide the design of Trevi and provide a viable
alternative to TCP for datacenter storage.<br>
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Bio:<br>
BSc, Msc, PhD - Department of Informatics, Athens University of
Economics and Business<br>
Post-doc - Computer Laboratory, University of Cambridge<br>
Interests - Datacentre Networking and Storage, Information-centric
Networking<br>
Now - Lecturer in Computer Science, University of Sussex<br>
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Barlow Room, 807) -- George Parisis (Sussex) Watering Down
Storage Hotspots with Cool Fountain Codes</li>
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Barlow Room, 807) -- James Sterbenz (Kansas/Lancaster)</li>
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<li style="margin: 0px 0px 0.25em; padding: 0px; display:
list-item; line-height: 1.5em;">28th February (Room change,
Barlow Room, 807) -- George Xylomenos (Athens University of
Economics and Business) Reducing Forwarding State in
Content-Centric Networks with Semi-Stateless Forwarding</li>
<li style="margin: 0px 0px 0.25em; padding: 0px; display:
list-item; line-height: 1.5em;">14th March -- George Smart (UCL,
EE) Decentralized Time-Synchronized Channel Swapping for
Wireless Sensor Networks</li>
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Richard G. Clegg,
Dept of Elec. Eng.,
University College London
<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="http://www.richardclegg.org/">http://www.richardclegg.org/</a>
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