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The Systems Research Group - a brief overview

The Systems Research Group - a brief overview. Steven Hand 14th December 2009. Systems Research Group Activities. The SRG designs and builds systems: We design and build computer systems We design and build operating systems We design and build network systems

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The Systems Research Group - a brief overview

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  1. The Systems Research Group- a brief overview Steven Hand 14th December 2009

  2. Systems Research Group Activities • The SRG designs and builds systems: • We design and build computer systems • We design and build operating systems • We design and build network systems • We design and build distributed systems • (many of us also investigate the theoretical and/or analytical underpinnings of these…)

  3. SRG People • Jean Bacon: distributed systems and middleware • Jon Crowcroft: networking the mobile masses • Richard Gibbens: modeling networks • David Greaves: safety-critical ubiquitous systems • Tim Griffin: algebras and languages for routing • Steve Hand: virtualization, storage and multi-core • Ian Leslie: mobile operating systems & networks • Cecilia Mascolo: mobile and sensor systems • Derek McAuley: distributed systems design • Andrew Moore: better networks thru measurement

  4. Steven Hand Virtualization, Storage and Multi-core • Xen: open-source virtualization • Fault-tolerance via deterministic replay • Horizon: storage for ubiquitous systems • Availability, differential privacy, economics • Multi-core: • Software lock-elision (transparently scale apps) • Symphony OS (speculative execution)

  5. Andrew W Moore Measurement-Informed Network Design • Designing and building new network systems using recent photonic breakthroughs • Beyond 100Gb/s: converged architectures for end-hosts and networks • Energy-Proportional Networking: whole-system, top-to-bottom redesign • 3M: measuring, monitoring, modeling networks

  6. Jean Bacon Systems for Health and Transport • PAL: health and lifestyle monitoring • seamless support for assisted living • SmartFlow: secure event-driven middleware • healthcare applications (audit, anomaly detection, …) • TIME-EACM: monitoring trains, buses, traffic, e.g. • MIDAS data mining (M25 induction loop) • low impact infrared lamp-post sensors

  7. Jon Crowcroft Everything Networking • Haggle: ad hoc google (and other applications…) • SocialNets: leveraging social networks for comms • predictive content dissemination, routing, … • ITA: bullet-proof ad-hoc networking • INTERNET: Intelligent Energy Aware Nets • Greentouch/low carbon/data centre migration • Horizon: making pervasive computing make money • Welcoming city, Connected journey, A Day in the Park

  8. Cecilia Mascolo Mobile and Sensor Systems • Content dissemination via opportunistic communication • Sharing media content during transport journeys • Social network analysis(with time and space) • Human connectivity and patterns analysis • Applications: adverts; content dissemination; provisioning • Wildlife monitoringthrough mobile sensors • Tagged animals to understand behaviour and patterns • Mobile sensing of human activitythrough mobile phones • Exploiting sensors on phones to gather behaviour, interactions/emotions (in collaboration with social psychology)

  9. Contacts http://www.cl.cam.ac.uk/research/srg • jean.bacon@cl.cam.ac.uk • jon.crowcroft@cl.cam.ac.uk • steven.hand@cl.cam.ac.uk • cecilia.mascolo@cl.cam.ac.uk • andrew.moore@cl.cam.ac.uk

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