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	When Performance Matters in Packet-Processing Systems

Host: Prof. Patrick Eugster

Wednesday

14.05

USI Campus EST, Room D0.03

13:30 - 14:30


	Gianni Antichi Politecnico di Milano

Abstract: The slowdown of Moore’s Law, the end of Dennard’s scaling, and the rapid adoption of high-bandwidth links are creating new challenges in building high-performance end-host network stacks and addressing network function virtualization. In response, the research community has explored offloading techniques to assist host processing. This talk will focus on two key areas: re-designing protocols and primitives for NIC offloads, and enhancing software packet-processing capabilities through compiler-driven approaches. The speaker will conclude with a vision for rethinking network stacks at the end-host level, enabling tighter integration between NICs, kernels, and user space.

Biography: Gianni Antichi is an Associate Professor at the Dipartimento di Elettronica, Informazione e Bioingegneria of Politecnico di Milano (Italy), and a Senior Lecturer (Associate Professor) at the School of Electronic Engineering and Computer Science, Queen Mary University of London (United Kingdom). His research interests lie at the intersection of networks and systems, aiming to develop hardware/software co-designs to improve the performance and efficiency of end-host applications and packet-processing programs. He holds a PhD in Information Engineering from the University of Pisa (Italy). His recognitions include Best Paper at ACM SIGCOMM 2017, ACM SOSR System Award 2019 (as part of the NetFPGA project), the EPSRC New Investigator Award, and the Facebook Networking Systems Research RFP (2020).