Abstract: Within the next few years, data centers will have hardware that makes it possible to achieve <10µs latency and 1.4Tbps bandwidth between servers. Is it possible to re-architect Linux to capitalize on the benefits offered by such high-performance hardware? In this talk, I will discuss how my group has been having fun exploring this question, what we have learned so far, and what it might take our community to achieve this goal.

Bio: Rachit is an assistant professor at Cornell University, where he works with an awesome group of students and postdocs — Saksham Agarwal, Qizhe Cai, Midhul Vuppalapati, Katie Gioioso, Jaehyun Hwang and Mina Arashloo — on problems related to systems and networking. Rachit is currently most excited about building the µ operating system, designing synchronous networks, and realizing resource disaggregation.