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Bridging the gap between networking and end-host computing

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In the past 20 years, the interconnect rate of networking devices doubled every 18 months, whereas computing systems’ doubled approximately every 24 months. This led to an increasing gap in the performance of networking and computing devices. In this talk I introduce a new computing architecture, dubbed NES , which aims to bridge the performance gap between networking and end-host computers. The architecture, scaling from chip level, through computer level, to datacentre level, puts a networking-element at the core of computing devices. It treats data transactions between elements in the system as networking transactions. Consequently, properties of transactions in the networking world can be applied, such as performance guarantees. NES enables multi-terabit computing in affordable hardware, allowing large VM appliances to scale to 10K’s to 100K’s of VMs per machine while enabling in hardware properties such as coherency, performance guarantees and isolation.

Bio: Noa Zilberman is a Research Associate at the University of Cambridge Computer Laboratory in England, where she is part of the Systems Research Group. Zilberman has over 15 years of industrial experience in the telecommunication and semiconductor industries, both in start-ups and large corporates. In her last role, Zilbermane was a senior principal chip architect in Broadcom’s Network Switching group. Her research interests include open-source research using the NetFPGA platform, computing and switching architectures, high speed interfaces, network measurements and Internet topology. Zilberman is a Senior Member of IEEE and has a PhD in Electrical Engineering from Tel Aviv University

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