Talks and Presentations

Here are some of the talks I have given during the course of my research career.

Research Group Talks

• The Apple M1 Processor - 29 April'21

  • Discusses the motivation, microarchitecture, and performance of the Apple M1 processor.

• Sirius: An All-Optical Flat Datacenter Network - 30 November'20

  • This talk presents Microsoft's paper "Sirius" that argues for a single, flat, optical datacenter network.

• An Open and Shut Case - 2 November'18

  • In this talk I present 3 fundamentals for measuring tail latency, to a non-systems audience.

• Non-Speculative Load-Load Reordering in TSO - 25 May'18

  • From a paper published in ISCA'17 [Ros, Carlson, Alipour, Kaxiras], this talk presents a novel method to non-speculatively violate TSO using cache coherence to hide the illegal reorderings.

• Network Requirements for Resource Disaggregation - 5 May'18

  • This talk discusses the concept of hardware resource disaggregation, and the fundamental network performance characteristics required to make it possible - original paper from OSDI'16 [Gao et al].

• Meltdown: Exploiting (Im)precise State - 19 Jan'18

  • In this talk, I present the Meltdown attack that exploits the fundamentals of modern out-of-order processor architecture.