Native Client project @ Google: Frontiers in Systems Research
Event details
| Date | 18.12.2009 |
| Hour | 14:00 |
| Speaker | Brad Chen |
| Location |
INM-202
|
| Category | Conferences - Seminars |
Desktop software, in the form of web browsers, browser features, and OS
distributions, are a growing area of engineering activity at Google.
This
talk will give an overview of this work, looking in detail at Native
Client as an example project in the space. Native Client is an open-
source technology for running untrusted native code in web applications,
with the goal of maintaining the browser neutrality, OS portability, and
safety that people expect from web apps. It supports performance-
oriented
features generally absent from web application programming environments,
such as thread support, instruction set extensions such as SSE, and use
of compiler intrinsics and hand-coded assembler. We combine these
properties in an open architecture designed to leverage existing web
standards, and to encourage community review and 3rd-party tools.
Overall, Google's desktop efforts seek to enable new Web applications,
improve end-user experience, and enable a more flexible balance between
client and server computing. Google has open sourced many of our desktop
efforts, in part to encourage collaboration and independent innovation.
Bio: J. Bradley Chen manages the Native Client project at Google, where
he has also worked on cluster performance analysis projects. Prior to
joining Google, he was Director of the Performance Tools Lab in Intel's
Software Products Division. Chen served on the faculty of Harvard
University from 1994-1998, conducting research in operating systems,
computer architecture and distributed system, and teaching a variety of
related graduate and undergraduate courses. He has published widely on
the subjects of systems performance and computer architecture. Dr. Chen
has bachelors and masters degrees from Stanford University and a Ph.D.
from Carnegie Mellon University.
Practical information
- General public
- Free
Contact
- George Candea