"Warehouse-Sized Workloads"

Abstract

Biography: Dr. Luiz André Barroso is a Distinguished Engineer at Google, where he has worked across several engineering areas, ranging from applications to software infrastructure and hardware design. His projects have included a service to find related academic articles, designing load-balancing server software, fault detection and recovery techniques, RPC-level networking and server performance optimizations, and leading the design of Google's computing platform. Prior to Google he was a member of the Research Staff at Compaq and Digital Equipment Corporations, where his group published extensively on processor and memory system design for database and web server workloads. While at Compaq, he also co-architected and designed Piranha, a scalable shared-memory multiprocessor based on single-chip multiprocessing. Their work on Piranha has had a significant impact in the microprocessor industry, helping inspire many of the multi-core CPUs that are now in the mainstream. Before joining Digital he was one of the designers of the USC RPM, an FPGA-based multiprocessor emulator for rapid hardware prototyping. He has also worked at IBM Brazil's Rio Scientific Center and lectured at PUC-Rio (Brazil) and Stanford University.