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SUMMARY:CamCube - Rethinking the Data Center Cluster
DTSTART:20120618T110000
DTEND:20120618T120000
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DESCRIPTION:Dr. Paolo Costa\, Imperial College London\, UK\nAbstract:\nSin
 ce the early days of networks\, a basic principle has been that endpoints 
 treat the network as a black box. An endpoint injects a packet with a dest
 ination address and the network delivers the packet. This principle has se
 rved us well\, and has enabled the Internet to scale to billions of device
 s using networks owned by competing companies and running applications dev
 eloped by different parties. However\, this approach might not be optimal 
 for large-scale Internet data centers\, such as those run by Amazon\, Goog
 le\, Microsoft and Facebook\, in which all the components are controlled b
 y a single entity. In the CamCube project\, we have been looking at a diff
 erent approach to build data centers\, borrowing ideas from the fields of 
 high performance parallel computing\, distributed systems and networking. 
 We use a direct-connect topology\, similar to those used in HPC\, and a no
 vel networking stack\, which supports a key-based routing functionality. B
 y providing applications with a more fine-grained control on network resou
 rces\, CamCube enables increasing performance and reducing development com
 plexity and cluster costs. In this talk\, I will provide an overview of th
 e CamCube platform and motivate its peculiar design choices. I will also d
 escribe the design and the evaluation of a number of services that we impl
 emented on CamCube. These include a MapReduce service that provides signif
 icant higher performance than existing solutions running on traditional cl
 usters.\n\nBio:\nPaolo Costa is a fellow of Imperial College London. Befor
 e joining Imperial\, he spent 2.5 years in the Systems and Networking Grou
 p of the Microsoft Research Lab in Cambridge and\, prior to that\, he had 
 been a Postdoctoral Researcher in the Computer Systems group at Vrije Univ
 ersiteit Amsterdam. He holds a M. Sc. and Ph.D. degree in Computer Enginee
 ring from the Politecnico di Milano\, received\, respectively\, in 2002 an
 d 2006.\nHis research interests lie at the intersection of systems and net
 working with particular focus on large-scale networked systems\, ranging f
 rom sensor and mobile networks to overlays and\, more recently\, data cent
 ers.
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