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SUMMARY:OS Design for Modern Hardware - Prof. Timothy Roscoe (ETHZ)
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CONTACT:Liang Wang
DESCRIPTION:Computer hardware from individual Systems-on-a-Chip to large m
 achines is changing: cores are becoming more heterogeneous\, systems more 
 diverse\, and fully exploiting the complexity of the system interconnect a
 nd memory system is becoming crucial to delivering performance and energy 
 efficiency.\n\nHowever\, the Unix OS model of monolithic kernel and daemon
  processes is a poor match for this emerging landscape.  In this talk I'll
  research at ETH Zurich and elsewhere to explore a expl ore a very differe
 nt approach: viewing a machine (even a single SoC) as a network\, and buil
 ding the OS as a distributed system: the Barrelfish multikernel OS.\n\nI'l
 l give an overview of Barrelfish\, with particular focus on how heterogene
 ous and distributed memory is managed in the system using capabilities. I'
 ll also discuss why modern hardware is a distributed system\, but not in t
 he classical sense\, and the implications for how we think about distribut
 ed algorithms in a multikernel operating system.\n\nBio:\n\nTimothy Roscoe
  is a Full Professor in the Systems Group of the Computer Science Departme
 nt at ETH Zurich.  of Technology.  He received a PhD from the Computer Lab
 oratory of the University of Cambridge\, where he was a principal designer
  and builder of the Nemesis operating system\, as well as working on the W
 anda microkernel and Pandora multimedia system.  After three years working
  on web-based collaboration systems at a startup company in North Carolina
 \, Mothy joined Sprint's Advanced Technology Lab in Burlingame\, Californi
 a\, working on cloud computing and network monitoring.  He then joined Int
 el Research at Berkeley in April 2002 as a principal architect of PlanetLa
 b\, an open\, shared platform for developing and deploying planetary-scale
  services.  In September 2006 he spent four months as a visiting researche
 r in the Embedded and Real-Time Operating Systems group at National ICT Au
 stralia in Sydney\, before joining ETH Zurich in January 2007.  His curren
 t research interests include network architecture and the Barrelfish multi
 core research operating system. He was recently elected Fellow of the ACM 
 for contributions to operating systems and networking research.
LOCATION:FW26\, Computer Laboratory\, William Gates Building
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