Terminus: Moving the Center of Cloud Servers from Cores to SmartNICs and Beyond

Speaker: Derek Chiou, The University of Texas at Austin

Since the start of computing, server design has been core-centric. As infrastructure functionality, such as network virtualization, storage virtualization, encryption, etc. consumes more and more computational power, the center of the server is moving from cores/processors to SmartNICs. This talk motivates this move, describes how SmartNICs work today, and discusses future directions and challenges.

Speaker Bio: Derek Chiou is a professor in the Electrical and Computer Engineering Department at The University of Texas at Austin and a Partner Architect at Microsoft responsible for future infrastructure offload system architecture. He is a co-founder of the Microsoft Azure SmartNIC effort and led the Bing FPGA team to first deployment of Bing ranking on FPGAs. Until 2016, when he joined Microsoft, he was an associate professor at UT. Before UT, Dr. Chiou was a system architect at Avici Systems, a manufacturer of terabit core routers. Dr. Chiou received his Ph.D., S.M., and S.B. degrees in Electrical Engineering and Computer Science from MIT.

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