[Colloquium] CS Distinguished Lecture, Thursday, November 12 - John Ousterhout (Stanford University)

[Sandra Wallace]

UNIVERSITY OF CHICAGO
DEPARTMENT OF COMPUTER SCIENCE
DISTINGUISHED LECTURE SERIES

https://cs.uchicago.edu/page/distinguished-lecture-series <https://cs.uchicago.edu/page/distinguished-lecture-series>


John Ousterhout
Stanford University

Thursday, November 12, 2015, 3:00 pm 
Ryerson 251


Title:  RAMCloud and the Low-Latency Datacenter

Abstract:
Datacenter computing has driven many of the innovations in computer systems over the last decade. The first phase of datacenter computing focused on scale (harnessing thousands of machines for a single application), but the next phase will focus on latency (taking advantage of the close proximity between machines). In this talk I will discuss why low latency matters in datacenters and how it will be achieved over the next 5-10 years. I will also introduce RAMCloud, a storage system that keeps all data in DRAM at all times in order to provide 100-1000x faster access than existing storage systems. Low-latency datacenters, combined with infrastructure such as RAMCloud, will enable a new class of applications that manipulate large datasets more intensively than has ever been possible.


Bio:
John Ousterhout is the VMware Founders Professor of Computer Science at Stanford University. His current research focuses on storage systems for large-scale datacenter applications.  Ousterhout's prior positions include 14 years in industry, where he founded two companies (Scriptics and Electric Cloud), preceded by 14 years as Professor of Computer Science at U.C. Berkeley.  He is the creator of the Tcl scripting language and is also well known for his work in distributed operating systems and file systems.  Ousterhout received a BS degree in Physics from Yale University and a PhD in Computer Science from Carnegie Mellon University. He is a member of the National Academy of Engineering and has received
numerous awards, including the ACM Software System Award, the ACM Grace Murray Hopper Award, the National Science Foundation Presidential Young Investigator Award, and the U.C. Berkeley Distinguished Teaching Award.



Host: Haryadi Gunawi


*Reception to follow in Ry. 255 at 4:00 pm*

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