The University of Washington Workshop on the Future of Cloud Computing was conducted on Friday, March 31, 2017 on the University of Washington campus in the Husky Union Building (HUB).
Agenda - Workshop Presentation Videos
| Time | Event |
|---|---|
| 8:00-8:30AM | Badge Pick-up – Coffee/Tea and Breakfast Food/Snacks |
| 8:25-8:30AM | Welcome – Prof. Arvind Krishnamurthy and Prof. Luis Ceze, UW |
| 8:30-9:00AM | Doug Burger, Microsoft, “Running Hardware Microservices on Configurable Clouds” |
| 9:00-9:30AM | Tom Anderson, UW, "High Performance RPC Packet Processing with FlexNIC" |
| 9:30-10:00AM | Derek Chickles, Cavium, “Intelligent NICS for the Data Center” |
| 10:00-10:30AM | Gabriel Southern, Intel, “FPGAs in the Data Center" |
| 10:30-11:00AM | Lightning Round of Student Posters |
| 11:00-12:30PM | Lunch and Cloud Poster Viewing |
| 12:30-1:00PM | Prof. Arvind Krishnamurthy, UW, “What Can We Do with Programmable Switches?” |
| 1:00-1:30PM | Prof. Franziska Roesner, UW, “Security and Privacy for Augmented Reality Platforms” |
| 1:30-2:00PM | Prof. Luis Ceze, UW, “A DNA-based Archival Storage System” |
| 2:00-2:30PM | Dr. Pankaj Mehra, Sandisk, “Evolutionary Changes with Revolutionary Implications: Persistent Memory in the Data Center” |
| 2:30-3:00PM | Break - Refreshments and Poster Viewing |
| 3:00-3:30PM | Prof. Michael Taylor, UW, “Specializing the Planet's Computation: ASIC Clouds” |
| 3:30-4:00PM | Kees Vissers, Xilinx, “A framework for Reduced Precision Neural Networks on FPGAs” |
| 4:00-4:30PM | Dan Ports, UW, “Rethinking Distributed Systems for the Datacenter" |
| 4:30-5:00PM | Kim Hazelwood, Facebook, “Scalable Performance in Facebook Data Centers” |
| 5:00-6:00PM | Reception - Refreshments and Poster Awards |
Abstracts and Bios (alphabetical order by speaker)
Tom Anderson, UW, "High Performance RPC Packet Processing with FlexNIC”
Abstract: Application and service scale out is putting renewed stress on operating system packet handling. TCP and application-level RPC packet handling accounts for a large and increasing fraction of aggregate data center processing time...
Bio: Tom is the Warren Francis and Wilma Kolm Bradley Chair of Computer Science and Engineering at the University of Washington. His research interests span all aspects of building practical, robust, and efficient computer systems...
Doug Burger, Microsoft, “Running Hardware Microservices on Configurable Clouds”
Abstract: The cloud is an economic disruptor that is changing the shape of our industry...
Bio: Doug Burger is one of the world’s leading active researchers in computer architecture, with a broad set of important contributions to his credit...
Luis Ceze, UW, “A DNA-based Archival Storage System”
Abstract: Demand for data storage is growing exponentially, but the capacity of existing storage media is not keeping up...
Bio: Luis Ceze, Associate Professor, joined the Computer Science and Engineering faculty in 2007...
Derek Chickles, Cavium, “Intelligent NICS for the Data Center”
Abstract: Explore the advantages of offloading network control, switching, and security workloads to an intelligent adapter in a data center...
Bio: Derek is a senior software manager in Cavium’s LiquidIO Intelligent adapter team at Cavium...
Kim Hazelwood, Facebook, “Scalable Performance in Facebook Data Centers”
Abstract: Facebook data centers handle traffic and store data for roughly one billion people per day...
Bio: Hazelwood is an engineering manager in Facebook’s Infrastructure division, where she leads a performance analysis team...
Arvind Krishnamurthy, UW, “What Can We Do with Programmable Switches?”
Abstract: Emerging networking architectures are allowing for flexible and reconfigurable packet processing at line rate...
Bio: Arvind Krishnamurthy is a Professor of Computer Science and Engineering at the University of Washington...
Pankaj Mehra, Sandisk, “Evolutionary Changes, Revolutionary Implications: Persistent Memory in the Data Center”
Abstract: With byte-grain persistent memory once again imminent, it helps to consider the history and development of this idea over the past decade and a half...
Bio: Pankaj has over 20 years of technical experience in developing and architecting scalable, intelligent information systems and services...
Dan Ports, UW, “Rethinking Distributed Systems for the Datacenter”
Bio: Dan Ports joined the University of Washington faculty as a Research Assistant Professor in 2015...
Franziska Roesner, UW, “Security and Privacy for Augmented Reality Platforms”
Abstract: Augmented reality (AR) technologies are at the cusp of commercial viability... Bio: Franziska (Franzi) Roesner is an Assistant Professor in Computer Science and Engineering at the University of Washington...
Gabriel Southern, Intel, “FPGAs in the Data Center”
Abstract: Hardware accelerators are critical for processing the tremendous amount of data received and stored in modern data centers...
Bio: Gabriel Southern is an engineer in Intel's Programmable Solutions Group...
Michael Taylor, UW, “Specializing the Planet's Computation: ASIC Clouds”
Abstract: As more and more services are built around the Cloud model, we see the emergence of planet-scale workloads... Bio: I have been a professor in the Department of Computer Science and Engineering at the University of California, San Diego since 2005...
Kees Vissers, Xilinx, “A framework for Reduced Precision Neural Networks on FPGAs”
Abstract: The ongoing research on Neural Networks includes work to reduce the computation and storage requirements for these networks... Bio: Kees Vissers graduated from Delft University in the Netherlands...