{"633963":{"#nid":"633963","#data":{"type":"event","title":"SCS Recruiting Seminar: Ming Liu","body":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003ETITLE: \u003Cem\u003EBuilding Distributed Systems Using Programmable Networks\u003C\/em\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003EABSTRACT:\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003EThe continuing increase of data center network bandwidth, coupled with a slower improvement in CPU performance, has challenged our conventional wisdom regarding data center networks: how to build distributed systems that can keep up with the network speeds and are high-performant and energy-efficient? The recent emergence of a programmable network fabric (PNF) suggests a potential solution. By offloading suitable computations to a PNF device (i.e., SmartNIC, reconfigurable switch, or network accelerator), one can reduce request serving latency, save end-host CPU cores, and enable efficient traffic control.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003EIn this talk, I will present two frameworks for building PNF-enabled distributed systems: (1) IncBricks, an in-network caching fabric built with network accelerators and programmable switches; (2) iPipe, an actor-based framework for offloading distributed applications\u003Cbr \/\u003E\r\n\u0026nbsp;on SmartNICs. I will show how to make efficient use of in-network heterogeneous computing resources by applying approximation techniques, co-designing with end-host software layers, employing new programming abstractions, and designing efficient control-\/data-planes. Finally, I will discuss how to use PNF to re-architect other data center systems.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003EBIO:\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003EMing Liu is a Ph.D. candidate in the Paul G. Allen School of Computer Science \u0026amp; Engineering at the University of Washington, advised by Arvind Krishnamurthy, Luis Ceze, and Simon Peter. His research interests are in computer systems and networks, with a focus on optimizing distributed systems by exploring the computing capabilities across the programmable network fabric (including SmartNICs, reconfigurable switches, and network accelerators).\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003E\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n","summary":null,"format":"limited_html"}],"field_subtitle":"","field_summary":"","field_summary_sentence":[{"value":"Building Distributed Systems Using Programmable Networks"}],"uid":"34541","created_gmt":"2020-04-01 01:21:52","changed_gmt":"2020-04-01 21:52:36","author":"Tess Malone","boilerplate_text":"","field_publication":"","field_article_url":"","field_event_time":{"event_time_start":"2020-04-14T12:00:00-04:00","event_time_end":"2020-04-14T13:00:00-04:00","event_time_end_last":"2020-04-14T13:00:00-04:00","gmt_time_start":"2020-04-14 16:00:00","gmt_time_end":"2020-04-14 17:00:00","gmt_time_end_last":"2020-04-14 17:00:00","rrule":null,"timezone":"America\/New_York"},"extras":[],"hg_media":{"633964":{"id":"633964","type":"image","title":"Ming Liu","body":null,"created":"1585704263","gmt_created":"2020-04-01 01:24:23","changed":"1585704263","gmt_changed":"2020-04-01 01:24:23","alt":"Ming Liu","file":{"fid":"241231","name":"mgliu.jpg","image_path":"\/sites\/default\/files\/images\/mgliu.jpg","image_full_path":"http:\/\/www.tlwarc.hg.gatech.edu\/\/sites\/default\/files\/images\/mgliu.jpg","mime":"image\/jpeg","size":6202364,"path_740":"http:\/\/www.tlwarc.hg.gatech.edu\/sites\/default\/files\/styles\/740xx_scale\/public\/images\/mgliu.jpg?itok=wbWhOwg3"}}},"media_ids":["633964"],"groups":[{"id":"47223","name":"College of Computing"},{"id":"50875","name":"School of Computer Science"}],"categories":[],"keywords":[],"core_research_areas":[],"news_room_topics":[],"event_categories":[{"id":"1795","name":"Seminar\/Lecture\/Colloquium"}],"invited_audience":[{"id":"78761","name":"Faculty\/Staff"},{"id":"177814","name":"Postdoc"},{"id":"78771","name":"Public"},{"id":"174045","name":"Graduate students"},{"id":"78751","name":"Undergraduate students"}],"affiliations":[],"classification":[],"areas_of_expertise":[],"news_and_recent_appearances":[],"phone":[],"contact":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003ETess Malone, Communications Officer\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003E\u003Ca href=\u0022mailto:tess.malone@cc.gatech.edu\u0022\u003Etess.malone@cc.gatech.edu\u003C\/a\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n","format":"limited_html"}],"email":[],"slides":[],"orientation":[],"userdata":""}}}