2018 Winter Review

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Thank You, Sponsors!

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Platform Lab Faculty

JohnOusterhout

(Fac. Director)

MendelRosenblum

KeithWinstein

GuruParulkar

(Exec. Director)

BillDally

PhilLevis

SachinKatti

ChristosKozyrakis

NickMcKeown

PeterBailis

MateiZaharia

BalajiPrabhakar

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Lab mission:

define new hardware/software platforms

that enable exciting new classes of applications

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ComputersManage

Information

The next frontier in computing

ComputersControlDevices

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CollaborativeDevice

Swarms

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“Big Control”● Hypothesis: device

swarms will be managed centrally from datacenters

● Infrastructure for Big Data can’t meet needs

● Need new platforms to enable large-scale control applications

GranularComputing

Application Platform for Swarm Control

Applications

Scalable abstractionsfor control

Enable applications composed of microsecond-scale tasks

Predictable and adaptable communication

Self-ProgrammingNetworks

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NSF Expedition Not Funded● Awards: $2M funding per year for 5 years● 2 year proposal process, 3 rounds of review● Made it to final round (reverse site visit in November)

§ 6–8 proposals considered§ 2–4 proposals funded (no official announcement yet)

● Impact on our platforms§ No impact on self-programming networks§ No impact on granular computing§ Re-assessing plans for application platform for swarm control

● Considering smaller effort, alternative funding sources

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Gates 3A Renovation Complete!

Goal: encourage collaboration● Visual connections● Variety of collaboration areas● Interaction magnets:

§ Full kitchen§ Projection TV/Tivo/Chromecast

● 8-person student offices

Lunch and posters are in Gates 3A

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Technical Talks9:00 Granular Computing

Initial Design Thoughts for a Granular Computing Platform Collin LeeThe Security Implications of Resource Sharing Christos Kozyrakisgg: make –j1000 (and other jobs) on FaaS Infrastructure Sadjad Fouladi

10:45 Self-Programming NetworksReconstructing the Self-Programming Data Center Balaji PrabhakarDistributed Databases on top of SPNs Shiyu LiuTowards Intelligent Voice Assistance for SPNs Vin SachidanandaIntent Based Networking Tom Edsall, Cisco

2:00 Granular Computing and AccelerationAn Implementation of the Homa Transport in RAMCloud Yilong LiStorage Storage Systems for Serverless Ana KlimovicScaling Neural Network Acceleration Using Coarse-Grained Parallelism Mingyu GaoAccelerating Bioinformatics Computations Yatish Turakia

4:15 Self Programming Mobile Cellular NetworksUpdate on Self-Programming Mobile Cellular Networks Sachin KattiTrevor: Automatic Configuration and Scaling of Stream Processing… Manu Bansal

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Questions/Discussion