Center for Experimental Research in Computer Systems

(CERCS)Georgia Institute of Technology

Ohio State University

Karsten Schwan, Calton Pu, Douglas Blough, Sudhakar Yalamanchili

Jay RamananathanRajiv Ramnath

IUCRCERCS NSF Industry University Co-operative Research Center

Mission

Scientific

Grid

Scientific

Grid

EnterpriseEnterprise

Mobile/PervasiveMobile/Pervasive

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.

Information anytime, anywhere Seamlessness!Quality!Security!Robustness!Timeliness!

Remote and Mobile Access

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

CERCS Research Thrusts

Energy Management

Multicore Software Stack

Systems Infrastructure& Management

Scientific Computing

Enterprise Systems

Mobile Systems

• Programming models & Compilation – IBM, Intel• Execution models & run-time systems – IBM Logicbblox• Virtualization Support – IBM, Intel, HP

• Virtual Power - OSISoft• Architecture–Package Co-Design• Power Efficient Global Memory Systems - Intel

• CETI program – OSU Datacenter Energy Usage - Nationwide• Cloud Computing Critical Enterprise Systems – IBM, Yahoo

Research ProjectsResearch Projects

End UserEngagement

• Configuration Management in Virtualized Systems – HP, ATT• High Performance I/O - DOE• Virtualization & Mobility – Motorola• Privacy in Healthcare – Childrens Hospital

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 multicore education - cercs.gatech.edu/multicore• DOE: ORNL, Sandia: High Performance I/O initiative; involvement with startups (RNet – Ohio); joint

proposals and joint research/interns• IBM/Intel (IBM OCR grant: managed multicore systems, Intel - HVM; LogicBlox (Atlanta); ICE (Atlanta)• News: Substantially strengthened engagement with DOE at ORNL; new awards from NSF; opportunities in

`green’ computing; Cloud computing/HPC linkages; applications in collaborative medicine

Strategic Thrusts - Highlights

– Embedded Systems/Computer Architecture:• Boeing (testing – Mary Jean Harrold); • IBM/Intel (lightweight methods for virtualizing multicore platforms; system-level

power management)• Motorola (virtualizing mobile platforms; future home entertainment)• Netronome (network appliances)• Federal: pervasive and mobile applications; Cyberphysical Systems program

(medical, green); NIH challenge grants• Sony (gaming applications; startup company – tool chains)• Samsung (Star Center) and STI center - separate efforts• News: increased engagement with Motorola (joint with GVU and other research

centers at Georgia Tech) with focus on home entertainment/interactive video; linkage to energy management in datacenters

image quality,end-to-end delay,jitter, loss rate

throughput,response times

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; I/O virtualization; trusted passages/reliable operation; coordinated power management; `Green Cloud’ effort joint with ME)

• TCS (failure diagnosis and fault containment)• ATT/HP (automated deployment; scalable, open source datacenter management and

monitoring infrastructures; maintainability; sustainability; exascale datacenters and clouds; OpenCirrus experimental cloud computing infrastructure)

• Travelport (runtime behavior/fault detection/QoI management; practical use of multicore systems in enterprise applications)

• ICE (high performance financial applications)• LogicBlox (dynamic code generation - efficient data queries, acceleration

architectures)• VMWare (cloud computing, embedded systems); targeted summer interns• News: NSF-funded project on data privacy in healthcare (McKesson, Childrens

Hospital); cloud computing collaboration with Center on Comprehensive Informatics (Emory); NetApp collaboration pending; outreach to Italy and Brazil collaboratorsFront - end Middle-tier Application Logic Data Base

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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)

• Associated Faculty/Researchers– Tucker Balch (Robotics), Patrick Bridges (UNM), Robert Butera,

Steve DeWeerth, Irfan Essa, Phil Hutto, Byron Jeff (Clayton State), Scott Klasky (ORNL), Kang Li, Sung Kyu Lim, Arthur Maccabe (UNM->ORNL), 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); VMWare, more in Ohio

– Industry Workshops and Industrial Advisory Board

• Joint initiatives - e.g., expansion to Ohio State (joint curriculum/facility efforts), planned expansion to UNM; outreach to Italy and Brazil

• Internship Program– Amazon, ATT, CISCO, Dell, Delta, (DoCoMo), DOE (ORNL,

Sandia), Google, HP, IBM, Intel, Microsoft, Motorola, NetApp, (Radisys), TCS, VMWare, TravelPort (Worldspan), Yahoo, small companies

• Evolving relationships:– Amazon, ATT, DoCoMo, Microsoft, NetApp, NVIDIA, QualComm,

Raytheon, RNet, VMWare, Yahoo, Xilinx