Andreas Herkersdorf

TU Munich, Germany

SmartNIC Architectures and their Roles in High-Speed Networking

Abstract

The continuous growth of network link rates in wired and wireless network infrastructure as well as data centers, in combination with the increase of sophistication for corresponding network service functions, demand HPC-like compute performance just for the networking stack. Smart, function-enriched, network interface cards (SmartNICs) will play a crucial role in the system architecture of future end user devices, base stations, edge and central network nodes. This in depth presentation will focus on key challenges that NICs in advanced network nodes have to face and present use cases where enriched NIC architectures provision essential services for network nodes.

Biography

Andreas Herkersdorf is a professor and Head of the Computer Engineering Department at Technical University of Munich (TUM). He received a Dr. degree from ETH Zurich, Switzerland, in 1991. Between 1988 and 2003, he has been in technical and management positions with the IBM Research Laboratory in Rüschlikon, Switzerland.

Since 2003, Dr. Herkersdorf is the Chair Professor of Integrated Systems at TUM. He is a senior member of the IEEE, member of National Academy of Science and Engineering (acatech) and serves as editor for Springer and De Gruyter journals for design automation and information technology. His research interests include application-specific multi-processor architectures, IP network processing, Network on Chip and self-adaptive fault-tolerant computing.