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SUMMARY:Building Enzian: a research computer - Timothy Roscoe\, ETH Zurich
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CONTACT:Srinivasan Keshav
DESCRIPTION:Academic research in rack-scale and datacenter computing today
  is hamstrung by lack of hardware. Cloud providers and hardware vendors bu
 ild custom accelerators\, interconnects\, and networks for commercially im
 portant workloads\, but university researchers are stuck with commodity\, 
 off-the-shelf parts.\n\nEnzian is a series research computer being develop
 ed at ETH Zurich (in collaboration with Cavium and Xilinx) to tackle this 
 problem\, and is designed to allow as many different research use-cases as
  possible.  By providing a powerful and flexible platform for computer sys
 tems research\, Enzian aims to enable more relevant and far-reaching work 
 on future compute platforms.  A single Enzian board consists of a server-c
 lass ARMv8 SoC tightly coupled and cache-coherent with a large FPGA (elimi
 nating PCIe)\, with about 0.5 TB DDR4 and nearly 500 Gb/s of network I/O e
 ither to the CPU (over Ethernet) or directly to the FPGA (potentially over
  custom protocols). Many Enzian boards can be connected in a rack-scale ma
 chine (either with or without a discrete switch).\n\nI'll talk about Enzia
 n's design\, its intended use-cases\, but also about the experience we hav
 e had building it over the last few years\, and how this experience has it
 self informed our research.\n\nBio:\n\nTimothy Roscoe is a Full Professor 
 in the Systems Group of the Computer Science Department at ETH Zurich\, wh
 ere he works on operating systems\, networks\, and distributed systems\, i
 ncluding the Barrelfish research OS and the Strymon high-performance strea
 m processor for datacenter monitoring.  He received a PhD in 1995 from the
  Computer Laboratory of the University of Cambridge\, where he was a princ
 ipal designer and builder of the Nemesis OS. After three years working on 
 web-based collaboration systems at a startup in North Carolina\, Mothy joi
 ned Sprint's Advanced Technology Lab in Burlingame\, California in 1998\, 
 working on cloud computing and network monitoring.  He joined Intel Resear
 ch at Nerkeley in April 2002 as a principal architect of PlanetLab\, an op
 en\, shared platform for developing and deploying planetary-scale services
 . In September 2006 he spent four months as a visiting researcher in the E
 mbedded and Real-Time Operating Systems group at National ICT Australia in
  Sydney\, before joining ETH Zurich in January 2007.  His current research
  interests include system software for modern hardware\, formally specifyi
 ng the hardware/software interface\, and building Enzian\, a research comp
 uter for systems software.  He was named Fellow of the ACM in 2013 for con
 tributions to operating systems and networking research.
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