Abstract: The NetFPGA is an open platform enabling researchers and
instructors to build high-speed, hardware-accelerated
networking systems. The NetFPGA is the de-facto
experimental platform for line-rate implementations of
network research and it continues with a new generation
platform capable of 4x10Gbps.

The target audience is not restricted to hardware
researchers: the NetFPGA provides the ideal platform for
research across a wide range of networking topics from
architecture to algorithms and from energy-efficient
design to routing and forwarding. The most prominent
NetFPGA success is OpenFlow, which in turn has reignited
the Software Defined Networking movement. NetFPGA enabled
OpenFlow by providing a widely available open-source
development platform capable of line-rate and was, until
its commercial uptake, the reference platform for
OpenFlow. NetFPGA enables high-impact network research.

This seminar will combine presentation and demonstration;
no knowledge of hardware programming languages (eg
Verilog/VHDL) is required.

A NetFPGA 10G card will be awarded as a door-prize amongst
the seminar attendees.

Speaker bio: ANDREW W. MOORE is a Senior Lecturer at the University of Cambridge Computer Laboratory in England, where he is part of the Systems Research Group working on issues of network and computer architecture. His research interests include enabling open-source network research and education using the NetFPGA platform, other research pursuits include low-power energy-aware networking, and novel network and systems data-center architectures. He holds B.Comp. and M.Comp. degrees from Monash University and a Ph.D. from the University of Cambridge. He is a chartered engineer with the IET and a member of the IEEE, ACM and USENIX.