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OCS 2020 Breakout: Tom Herbert

Tom Herbert has 20+ years of industry experience at Intel, Facebook, Google, and Sun Microsystems driving development of networking solutions and operating systems at hyperscale

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A preview of a new open source programming model and API for network protocol and other serial data processing!

Introducing Panda and opening words — 0:00

Tom’s background and experiences — 0:38

What’s the meta problem? Tom walks through — 1:43

Looking at the networking problem and the network processing bottleneck — 3:21

No one has solved this problem yet. Walking through existing models, processing types, goals, and shortcomings — 5:07

Moving towards a solution: write once, run anywhere, run well — 12:49

Gleaning some key ideas: domain-specific architectures, nature of the data, (fully programmable) CPUs are relevant, hardware acceleration, compiler optimizations — 15:20

Applying key ideas to solving the network processing bottleneck — 20:09

All of this brings us to PANDA: a programming model and API for applying these ideas to solve the network processing feedback —23:49

Sub-problem: Protocol parsing — 25:49

The PANDA Parser — 28:37

Details about the PANDA plan (to get announcements, follow Tom on LinkedIn — 31:23


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