Seminars & Colloquia
Benjamin Lee
ECE, Duke University
"Economic Mechanisms for Managing Risk in Datacenters"
Friday March 06, 2015 11:00 AM
Location: 3211, EBII NCSU Centennial Campus
(Visitor parking instructions)
This talk is part of the System Research Seminar series
To increase datacenter capability within megawatt-scale power budgets, we present the case for building datacenters using processors and memories originally designed for mobile and embedded platforms. For the Microsoft Bing search engine, mobile-class processors are 5x more efficient than server processors and we mitigate the impact on latency and service quality with heterogeneous system design. Mobile-class DRAMs are 5x more efficient than server-class parts and we identify the datacenter applications that can benefit from them. Mixing server- and mobile-class hardware in a datacenter increases management complexity, and we describe how datacenters can navigate this complexity with economic mechanisms. For performance, we present a market in which users bid for heterogeneous hardware. For fairness, we present a game-theoretic mechanism that allocates hardware equitably, guaranteeing sharing incentives, envy-freeness, and Pareto efficiency.
Benjamin Lee is an assistant professor of Electrical and Computer Engineering at Duke University. Dr. Lee received his B.S. in Electrical Engineering and Computer Science from the University of California at Berkeley, his S.M. and Ph.D. in Computer Science at Harvard University, and his post-doctorate in Electrical Engineering at Stanford University. He has held visiting positions at Microsoft Research, Intel Labs, and Lawrence Livermore National Lab. Dr. Lee has received the NSF Computing Innovation Fellowship and the NSF CAREER Award. His research has been honored twice as Top Picks by IEEE Micro and twice as Research Highlights by the Communications of the ACM. His research focuses on energy-efficient architectures, distributed systems, and algorithmic economics.
Host: Xipeng Shen, CSC