Next Generation Data Center

• Monday, 23 June 2014, 14:00-17:50, Room Italia

• Organizers:

  • Giancarlo Prati (Instituto Tecip, Scuola Superiore Sant’Anna/CNIT, Italy)

• Chairs:
  • Piero Castoldi (Istituto TeCIP, Scuola Superiore Sant’Anna, Italy)
  • Giuseppe Bianchi (CNIT, Italy)
  • Marco Romagnoli (CNIT, Italy)

Workshop Description

Future data centers need to meet requirements that are continually changing, both as a result of the services required and the operational flexibility, both for management and energy efficiency. This raises the problem of development and implementation of a Next Generation of Data Centers (NGDC) using innovative techniques of communication, switching and processing that will see massive integration of photonics and electronics at circuit level, and new switching architectures and control subsystems integrated with the realization of low power consumption , footprint and cost, in order to handle large amounts of data (big data) in challenging application contexts such as the evolution of the cloud towards the "zettabyte era". The use of integrated photonics circuit
will impact the future data center at all levels, requiring innovation of architecture of all the components (intra blades, racks, data centers), innovation of systems at data plane level, such as communication intra DC, matrices for photonic switching and their composition, innovation at software level tailored to new photonic technology to generate a real and virtual software-defined network optimized for applications, searching, and high-performance computing.

Structure

14:00-15:40 - Session 1. Architectures and systems

Chairman: Piero Castoldi (Istituto TeCIP, Scuola Superiore Sant’Anna, Italy)

The new ENI green Data Center – resilience and efficiency: first results, Michele Mazzarelli (ENI SpA – Information & Communication Technology, Italy)
Application Centric Infrastructure - Redefine the power of IT, Davide Q. Cattoni (CISCO, Italy)
Network architectures in Data Centers, Piero Castoldi (Istituto TeCIP, Scuola Superiore Sant’Anna, Italy)
A New Era of Networking, Igor Marty (IBM EMEA, France)
NGDC: system design and total cost of ownership, Giampietro Tecchiolli (Eurotech Italia, Italy)

16:10-17:50 - Session 2. Challenges in algorithms and technology

2.1 Algorithms
Chairman: Giuseppe Bianchi (CNIT, Italy)

Algorithmic challenges in data storage and indexing, Paolo Ferragina (Università di Pisa, Italy)
Virtualizing network security functions in the Data Center, Giuseppe Bianchi (CNIT, Italy)

2.2 Photonics
Chairman: Marco Romagnoli (CNIT, Italy)

Integrated photonics to revolutionize the Data Center hardware, Marco Romagnoli (CNIT, Italy)
Scalable and low latency optical packet switching architectures for High Performance Data Center networks, Nicola Calabretta (Technical University Eindhoven, The Netherlands)
Challenges towards an on-chip optical interconnection network, Nicola Andriolli (Istituto TeCIP, Scuola Superiore Sant'Anna, Italy)