Starting this month we'll be opening up two 5-7 minute talk slots before our main talk. The idea is to share with the group a short summary of a paper or an idea that you are super excited about. Anyone can volunteer minis, just email us!
• Mini #1: Sargun Dhillon (https://twitter.com/sargun) on VL2 (http://research.microsoft.com/pubs/80693/vl2-sigcomm09-final.pdf), a paper by Microsoft Research about computer networking. VL2 leverages several novel schemes in order to build full-bisection, highly-scalable, and decentralized datacenter networks in an economical fashion. These networks continue to support the layer 2 and flat addressing semantics. Many modern networks have been greatly influenced by this design.
Sargun Dhillon (@sargun (https://gist.github.com/sargun/twitter.com/sargun)) is highly interested in schemes for efficient, flexible computer networks to enable the next generation of applications. He currently works at MustWin (http://mustwin.com/). He comes from an operations background, and spends much of his time thinking about how we can make distributed systems, networking, and databases friendlier to run.
