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Title: “Bring New Hardware to Cloud: Re-build, Re-visit, and Re-think”
Abstract: The rapid evolution of hardware technologies, such as high-bandwidth SSDs and high-speed networks, presents immense potential for transforming cloud computing. However, these advancements bring significant challenges, including adapting cloud architectures, ensuring reliability, and addressing emerging risks. This talk explores how reimagining cloud systems can overcome these challenges by redesigning architectures to improve performance and cost-efficiency, investigating the unique failure modes of new hardware to enhance resilience, and leveraging innovative approaches to tackle modern threats such as ransomware. This presentation highlights how embracing the full potential of cutting-edge hardware can drive breakthroughs in performance, security, and reliability across the cloud ecosystem.
Bio: Dr. Erci Xu is a storage system researcher at Alibaba Cloud, specializing in distributed storage systems and software/hardware reliability. With over 20 publications in prestigious systems conferences, including OSDI, FAST, ATC, and Eurosys, he ranks among the top 20 authors globally in CSRanking for operating systems over the past five years. Erci is a two-time recipient of the USENIX FAST Best Paper Award (2023 and 2024) and the ACM SIGOPS China Rising Star Award. He has served as a program committee member for top-tier conferences, including NSDI, FAST, Eurosys, and ATC. Many of his innovations have been widely adopted in practice, with deployments in Alibaba Cloud, IBM, and other leading institutions, advancing the reliability and scalability of distributed storage systems.
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