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Computer Science @ Rochester
Monday, December 03, 2012
10:45 AM
Computer Studies Bldg. Room 209
Hubertus Franke
IBM Research Division Thomas J. Watson Research Center
Experiences in Industrial Systems Research
The talk describes a series of system research projects from conception to their current status and how they shaped and are shaping our system designs. The first part will focus on Dynamic Logical Partitioning that has evolved into the primary virtualization technique on enterprise Power systems. DLPar technology now enables several new operating system projects such as automatic operating system repair, automatic SMT enabling and cloud computing. The second part will describe how a detailed analysis of modern scripting languages revealed several emerging trends in modern software (for e.g. use of multiple shared libraries, significantly smaller function bodies, more branchy code) that exercise the underlying system differently from traditional workloads and therefore make us reexamine the design of our future processors.

BIO: Hubertus Franke IBM Research Division, Thomas J. Watson Research Center Dr. Franke is a Research Staff Member and manager in the Scalable Systems Department at the Thomas J. Watson Research Center. He received a Diplom degree in Computer Science from the Technical University of Karlsruhe, Germany, in 1987, and a M.S. and Ph.D. degrees in electrical engineering from Vanderbilt University in 1989 and 1992, respectively. He subsequently joined IBM at the Thomas J. Watson Research Center, where he worked on the IBM SP1/2 MPI subsystem, scalable operating systems, Linux scalability and enterprise readiness, multi-core architectures, and scalable applications. He was a principal architect of the PowerEN architecture. He is currently applying his system expertise to cloud architectures and business analytics applications. He received several IBM Outstanding Innovation Awards for his work. He is an author or coauthor of more than 100 technical papers and 30 patents. He is a Member of the IBM Academy of Science and an IBM Master Inventor. He also serves as an Adjunct Professor for Computer Science at NYU, New York City, with focus on operating systems, computer architecture and compilers.

Refreshments will be provided at 10:30AM