The Demikernel Datapath OS Architecture for Microsecond-scale Datacenter Systems

Speaker: Irene Zhang , Microsoft Research

Date: Wednesday, November 03, 2021

Time: 4:00 PM to 5:00 PM Note: all times are in the Eastern Time Zone

Public: Yes

Location: https://mit.zoom.us/meeting/register/tJMtdOqgrTwsGNV_k0Nk6JjLMk-G6GFzTRyk

Event Type: Seminar

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Speaker URL: https://irenezhang.net/

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Reminder Subject: TALK: The Demikernel Datapath OS Architecture for Microsecond-scale Datacenter Systems

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Abstract: Datacenter systems and I/O devices now run at single-digit microsecond
latencies, requiring nanosecond-scale operating systems. Traditional
kernel-based operating systems impose an unaffordable overhead, so
recent kernel-bypass OSes (e.g., Arrakis, Ix) and libraries (e.g.,
Caladan, eRPC) eliminate the OS kernel from the I/O datapath. However,
none of these systems offer a general-purpose datapath OS replacement
that meet the needs of microsecond-scale systems.

This talk proposes Demikernel, a flexible datapath OS and architecture
designed for heterogenous kernel-bypass devices and microsecond-scale
datacenter systems. We have built two prototype Demikernel datapath
OSes and show that minimal effort is needed to port existing
microsecond-scale systems. Once ported, Demikernel lets applications
run across heterogenous kernel-bypass devices with nanosecond-scale
overheads and no code changes.

Bio: Irene Zhang is a Principal Researcher at Microsoft Research. Her
work focuses on datacenter operating systems and distributed systems,
especially making new datacenter hardware technologies more widely
usable by highly-demanding datacenter applications. Irene completed
her PhD in 2017 at the University of Washington, where her PhD thesis
focused on distributed systems that span mobile devices and cloud
servers. Her thesis work received the ACM SIGOPS Dennis Ritchie
doctoral dissertation award and the UW Allen School William Chan
Memorial dissertation award. Before her PhD, Irene was a member of
the virtual machine monitor group at VMware, where she worked on
memory resource management and virtual machine checkpointing.

Research Areas:
Systems & Networking

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Created by Julian J. Shun at Thursday, October 21, 2021 at 12:21 AM.