Transcript CERCS - Creating System Solutions for Future Technologies

Center for Experimental Research
in Computer Systems
Georgia Institute of Technology
Ohio State University
Fall 2008 IAB Meeting
Karsten Schwan, Calton Pu, Douglas Blough,
Sudhakar Yalamanchili
Jay Ramananathan
Rajiv Ramnath
IUCRCERCS NSF Industry University Co-operative Research Center
Mission
Lead the innovation of systems, computing, and information technologies, to further the
development of the interactive and distributed information services of the future, and to
create the intellectual capital that can advance these technologies and fuel future
discoveries.
Enterprise
Scientific
Grid
Remote and Mobile Access
Mobile/Pervasive
Information anytime, anywhere 
Seamlessness!
Quality!
Security!
Robustness!
Timeliness!
Extended Mission
• Educational:
– Seed new curricula at GT and serve as a curricular resource for
educational institutions worldwide
– Business models for curricular and professional education delivery
– Training of graduate students through the administration of an extensive
internship program
• Outreach:
– Work with our alumni to create new opportunities and build networks
– Service to the broader community
Strategic Thrusts - Highlights
– Scientific/Technical Computing – `Big Data’: Scalable, Reliable Access:
• GT: IHPCL Laboratory (Intel and NVIDIA donations for a Heterogeneous Virtualized
Multicore (HVM) Platforms Lab – Cell, GPU, and Tolopai platforms); Intel `Larrabee’
and NVIDIA for Architecture Lab
• DOE: ORNL, Sandia: High Performance I/O initiative; involvement with startups; joint
proposals and joint research/interns
• Cisco (MPI and IB); IBM/Intel (IBM OCR: managed multicore systems, Intel:
multicore education and HVM); RNet (Ohio) communication processor design;
LogicBlox (Atlanta); ICE (Atlanta)
• News: CPES SciDac role; MMCS workshop; new funding for HVM (HP, IBM, Intel), for
curriculum work; HPC I/O Initiative receives new ORNL/NSF support; exascale
dimensions explored in joint work with Labs and with HP; broader plans - ORNL; SC
conference
Strategic Thrusts - Highlights
– Embedded Systems/Computer Architecture: Focus on Multicore:
• Boeing (testing);
• IBM/Intel (lightweight methods for virtualizing multicore systems; system-level
power management; computer architecture – new faculty)
• Motorola (virtualizing mobile platforms)
• Netronome (network appliances)
• Federal: pervasive applications (transportation, robotics); Cyberphysical
Systems and RealWorld Computing programs
• IBM, Intel, HP (heterogeneous virtualized multicore systems (HVM) – integrated
accelerators (Cell, FPGA, GPU -> Larrabee, network processors -> Tolopai)
• Sony (gaming applications; startup company – tool chains)
• Samsung (Star Center) and STI center - separate efforts
• News: Embedded Systems Week in Atlanta (Wayne Wolf); Increased
engagement with Motorola (VP visit) with focus on virtualization/multicore
throughput,
response times
image quality,
end-to-end delay,
jitter, loss rate
Strategic Thrusts - Highlights
– Enterprise Computing – Clean Information: Adaptive, Trusted, Sustainable:
• Cisco, Netronome (network appliances; IB, QoS, network, and device virtualization)
• IBM, Intel, OSISoft (critical enterprise cloud computing (CECCS); autonomics in
virtualized systems; SOA; I/O virtualization; trusted passages/reliable operation;
coordinated power management; `Green Cloud’ effort joint with ME)
• TCS (failure diagnosis and fault containment)
• HP (automated deployment; scalable, open source datacenter management and
monitoring infrastructures; maintainability; sustainability)
• Worldspan (runtime behavior/fault detection/QoI management; new focus on multicore)
• ICE (high performance financial applications)
• LogicBlox (dynamic code generation - efficient data queries, acceleration architectures)
• VMWare (working with ESXServer sources, VirtualCenter); numerous summer interns
• News: IBM SUR on Critical Enterprise Cloud Computing Systems (CECCS); new NSFfunded project on data privacy in healthcare (McKesson, Childrens Hospital);
collaboration with Center on Comprehensive Informatics (Emory); ATT Labs; NetApp
Front - end
Middle-tier
Application Logic Data Base
Proxy Server
Inte
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CERCS Personnel
• Faculty
– Mustaque Ahamad, Mostafa Ammar, Doug Blough, Nate Clark,
Tom Conte, Greg Eisenhauer, Nick Feamster, Richard Fujimoto,
Ada Gavrilovska, Jon Giffin, Alexander Gray, Mary Jean Harrold,
Hyesoon Kim, Hsien-Hsin Lee, Wenke Lee, Ling Liu, Gabriel Loh,
Alex Orso, Henry Owen, Santosh Pande, Milos Prvulovic, Calton
Pu, Kishore Ramachandran, Jay Ramanathan (Ohio State), Rajiv
Ramnath (Ohio State), George Riley, David Schimmel, Karsten
Schwan, Rich Vuduc, Matthew Wolf, Hongyan Zha, Sudhakar
Yalamanchili, (Ellen Zegura), new faculty in security and
computational science
• Associated Faculty/Researchers
– Tucker Balch (Robotics), Patrick Bridges (UNM), Robert Butera,
Steve DeWeerth, Constantinos Dovrolis, Irfan Essa, Phil Hutto,
Byron Jeff (Clayton State), Scott Klasky (ORNL), Kang Li, Sung
Kyu Lim, Arthur Maccabe (UNM), Pete Manolios (Northeastern),
Vincent Mooney, Jeff Nichols (ORNL), Kalyan Perumalla (ORNL),
Jeff Vetter (ORNL), Patrick Widener (UNM)
Industrial Relations
• IUCR CERCS Center
– Contributors (GT): Boeing, Cisco, Delta, DOE, HP, IBM, Intel,
LogicBlox, Motorola, Netronome, OSISoft, TCS, Travelport
(Worldspan); more in Ohio (see later)
– Industry Workshops and Industrial Advisory Board
• Joint initiatives - e.g., joint work with CHREC UFL, expansion to
Ohio State (joint curriculum/facility efforts), planned expansion to
UNM
• Internship Program
– Amazon, ATT, CISCO, Dell, Delta, (DoCoMo), DOE (ORNL,
Sandia), Google, HP, IBM, Intel, Microsoft, Motorola, NetApp,
(Radisys), TCS, VMWare, TravelPort (Worldspan), Yahoo
• Evolving relationships:
– Amazon, ATT, DoCoMo, Microsoft, NetApp, NVIDIA, QualComm,
Raytheon, RNet, VMWare, Yahoo, Xilinx