Workshop on Software Composable Infrastructure (SCI)
In conjunction with HiPC 2016
19 December 2016
Hyderabad International Conference Centre, Hyderabad, India
Technical Program
09:00 – 09:15 AM |
Opening of SCI Workshop |
09:15 – 10:00 AM |
Title: Composable Pooled systems with Intel Rackscale Design |
Speaker: Mrittika Ganguli Affiliation: Intel |
10:00 – 10:30 AM |
Title: Software-Defined Environments for Science |
Speaker: Manish Parashar Affiliation: Rutgers University |
10:30 – 11:00 AM |
Break |
11:00 – 11:30 AM |
Technical Paper Presentation |
Title: Event Digest for Hyperscale data center telemetry Authors: Ananth S. Narayan, Lucasz Grzymkowski Affiliation: Intel |
11:30 – 12:15 AM |
Title: Applying the ideas of NFV and SDN to Telecom Networks |
Speaker: Mythili Vutukuru Affiliation: Indian Institute of Technology Bombay |
12:15 – 12:45 PM |
Title: Rack scale architecture Challenges and Opportunities |
Speaker: Chakri Padala Affiliation: Ericsson |
SCOPE AND OBJECTIVE
An increasing variety of applications are moving into the data center, each with their own infrastructure requirements. Some applications require support for predictable low latency processing, others run in the background crunching huge datasets. Some are compute intensive and some require huge amounts of memory. Still other applications may require their data and processing to be co-located. From a datacenter operator perspective, a major challenge is to use the same resources to efficiently support such a diverse set of applications.
Composable software-defined infrastructure (SDI) is an emerging approach to address these requirements that is being leveraged in industry initiatives such as Facebook’s Open Compute Initiative, Intel’s Rack Scale architecture etc. The development in hardware technologies such as silicon photonics, photonic backplanes, storage class memories etc., augur well for software composable server architectures. However, many of these technologies are still in their infancy and challenges remain in both the hardware and software system architectures that need to support, and want to benefit from, such dynamic composition.
Topics of interest to the workshop include, but are not limited to:
- Low Latency interconnects for rack-scale resource composition
- Programmable Server Hardware
- Memory Disaggregation
- Software Architectures for New/Poolable Memory Hierarchies
- Dynamic composition of GPU, FPGA etc.
- Fault Isolation and Redundancy Model
- Analytics for Software Composable Infrastructures
- Application and Cloud Platform Optimizations for Rack Scale
Organizers:
- Chakri Padala, Ericsson Research, Bangalore, chakri.padala@ericsson.com
- Umesh Bellur, IIT Bombay, Mumbai, umesh@cse.iitb.ac.in
Program Committee (confirmed members):
- Ramamurthy Badrinath, Ericsson Research, Bangalore
- Janakiram Dharanipragada, IIT Madras, Chennai
- Mrittika Ganguly, Intel Research, Bangalore
- João Monteiro Soares, Ericsson Research, Kista
- Nanjungud Narendra, Ericsson Research, Bangalore
- Ananth Narayan S, Intel Research, Bangalore
- Thirumale Niranjan, VMware, Bangalore
- Mythili Vutukuru, IIT Bombay, Mumbai