COMPASS Talks
The Computing Platforms Seminar Series (COMPASS) is focused on talks by industry and academia around the general topic of computing platforms.
Data Processing with DPUs
Abstract:
Improving the performance and reducing the cost of cloud data systems is increasingly challenging. Data processing units (DPUs), a new family of data center networking hardware, offer a promising solution. In this talk, I will first characterize the capabilities and constraints of DPUs. I will then present our DPDPU proposal, a platform for holistically exploiting DPUs to optimize data processing tasks that are critical to performance and cost. It seeks to fill the semantic gap between DPUs and data processing systems and handle DPU heterogeneity with three engines dedicated to compute, networking, and storage. Finally, I will describe in depth the storage engine, called DDS
Bio:
Qizhen Zhang is an Assistant Professor of Computer Science at the University of Toronto, where he leads the Far Data Lab. He received his Ph.D. in the Department of Computer and Information Science at the University of Pennsylvania and spent a year in industry at Microsoft Research, Redmond. Qizhen is broadly interested in data management, computer systems/networking, and applications enabled by large-scale infrastructures. His research appears at database and systems/networking venues.