Arvind Krishnamurthy of the University of Washington will give a talk titled “Networked Systems in the Era of Programmable Dataplanes” today (March 18) from 11:30 a.m. to 12:30 p.m. The event is part of the CDS Distinguished Colloquium Spring 2021 Series. View event details and get the Zoom information.
Abstract:
Emerging networking architectures are allowing for flexible and reconfigurable packet processing at line rate both on the switch and the NIC. Despite their promising new functionality, programmable switches and NICs are not all-powerful; they have limited state, support limited types of operations, and limit per-packet computation to operate at line rate. In this talk, I will describe how to mask resource limitations using approximation techniques and new scheduling algorithms and how to build a general framework for exposing in-network computing capability to distributed applications. In addition to presenting case studies of optimizing networked systems, I will reflect on the role of programmable dataplanes in datacenter computing
Arvind Krishnamurthy is the Short-Dooley Professor in the Paul G. Allen School of Computer Science & Engineering. His research interests span all aspects of building effective and robust computer systems, in the context of both data centers and Internet-scale systems. More recently, his research has focussed on programmable networks and systems for machine learning. He is an ACM fellow, a past program chair of ACM SIGCOMM and Usenix NSDI and serves on their technical steering committees, is the vice president of Usenix, and serves on the ICSI and CRA boards.