This was our 13th Industry Spotlight.

Presentation: Using a Scaled-Up Software-Defined Server as an Alternative to Scaling Out

SPEAKER: Ike Nassi, Founder, CTO and Chair, TidalScale
HELD: Tuesday, June 29, 2021
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ABSTRACT: Software-Defined Storage and Software-Defined Networks are now common. But what about the missing piece, Software-Defined Computers? TidalScale has defined and are selling something we call a Software Defined Server as an alternative to traditional scaled-out distributed systems. One single, standard operating system, like Centos, RedHat, Oracle, or Suse Linux runs on this virtual machine, as does Oracle, SAP/Hana, and all other applications and databases, all without modification. Typically, a customer aggregates off-the-shelf commodity physical servers connected by standard Ethernet to build a distributed virtual machine. Each physical server runs an instance of a hyperkernel. Hyperkernels are peer to peer, with no central point of control. Competitive performance is achieved by using a layer of machine learning between the operating system and each motherboard.
This talk is part of our series of presentations by industry experts at the IEEE Santa Clara Valley Section Corporate Liaison Program (CLP). If you have ideas for future speakers, please email the SCV CLP Chair.
SPEAKER: Having flunked retirement for the third time, Dr. Ike Nassi is the Chairman and Chief Technology Officer of TidalScale and an Adjunct Professor of Computer Science and Engineering at UC Santa Cruz. He is also a Founding Trustee of the Computer History Museum. Previously, he was an executive vice president and chief scientist at SAP where he ran several domestic and international research centers and initiated 100 sponsored university academic projects worldwide. Ike helped start three companies: With Gordon Bell, he helped to start Encore Computer Corporation, a pioneer in symmetric multiprocessors, InfoGear Technology, which developed Internet appliances and services (including the first iPhone) and Firetide, one of the first wireless mesh networking companies. He was also the Senior VP for Software at Apple Computer, and worked on the VAX at Digital Equipment Corporation. In addition to his industry work, Dr. Nassi has always had parallel academic affiliations, including as a visiting scholar at Stanford University, a research scientist (twice) at MIT, and a visiting scholar at University of California, Berkeley. He was awarded a certificate for Distinguished Service from the U.S. Department of Defense for his work with DARPA and for his work on Ada. He holds a PhD in Computer Science from Stony Brook University.

Contact the Speaker:
LinkedIn => www.linkedin.com/in/ikenassi/
Twitter => twitter.com/nassi