Prof. John Goodacre
ARM, University of Manchester, and KALEAO Ltd.
This talk will outline the new system architecture being introduced by KALEAO for scale-out systems. In designing a system specifically for scale-out workloads, the resource miss-balance of scale-up processing and wasted costs of unnecessary duplication can be addressed. In using only a few benchmark, you can evaluate the difference in approach to scalability, effects of blocking ratios, resource conflicts, and hence the resulting benefits of a scale-out optimized design.
Bio: Prof. John Goodacre is Kaleao's co-founder and Chief Scientific Officer. He also holds a Professorship in Computer Architectures in the School of Computer Science at the University of Manchester while also being the Director of Technology and Systems in the Research Group at ARM Ltd. His career has included the realisation of the first scalable commodity telephony platform, the introduction of the first real-time collaboration tools shipped in Microsoft Exchange 2000, while more recently, was responsible for the design and introduction of the ARM MPCore multicore processor and associated technologies. His roles today extend across both academic and industrial research topic, focused around web-scale servers, exascale efficient systems and ubiquitous computing, while also driving forwards the technological vision for the Kaleao systems roadmap. This gives him a unique hardware and software background with experience from embedded to the largest of big data and HPC systems. He sits on various advisory boards at both national and European levels and is a frequent conference speaker.