On April 1, 2023 Professor Maguire became Professor emeritus connected to KTH Royal Institute of Technology, and on April 21 there was a ceremony in Stockholm to mark this event. Congratulations to Professor Maguire on a fantastic career that is nowhere near to being over!
Can one process the equivalent of 1 Tbps of traffic on a single server? In our NSDI’23 paper, we leverage disaggregation principles to push the boundary of what CPU-based packet processors can achieve in terms of throughput for a variety of network functions. For the paper PDF click here. This is a joint work with two visiting doctoral students from Roma tre University. All code is available here.
A video of Tommaso’s NSDI talk:
We are very happy to announce that Alireza Farshin successfully defended his PhD thesis on March 6, 2023! Prof. Gerald Q. Maguire Jr. was a superb co-advisor (as always!), and Prof. Mark Silberstein was a stellar opponent at the defense seminar. Alireza’s thesis is available online:
This was a hybrid defense, so here is the Zoom screenshot plus an on-site image:
We are hugely honored that our “Packet Order Matters!” paper received the Community Award at NSDI 2022! More details are available in our earlier post.
Presentation video is below:
[youtube https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0M8EiLYgYpA]
We are happy to announce that on May 30, 2022 Waleed Reda successfully defended his PhD thesis at both KTH and UC Louvain! Marco Canini equally co-advised Waleed with Dejan Kostic in the beginning, and by defense time Waleed’s advisors were Dejan Kostic and Marco Chiesa at KTH, and Peter van Roy at UC Louvain. Adam Morrison was a superb opponent at the defense. Waleed’s thesis (the first to come in Dejan Kostic’s ERC ULTRA project) is available online:
Accelerating Distributed Storage in Heterogeneous Settings
Here’s the Zoom screenshot from this hybrid defense:
