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What and Who
Reinventing The Desktop
Brad Chen
Google Inc.
SWS Colloquium
J. Bradley Chen manages the Native Client project at Google,
where he has also worked on cluster performance analysis projects.
Prior to joining Google, he was Director of the Performance
Tools Lab in Intel's Software Products Division. Chen served on the
faculty of Harvard University from 1994-1998, conducting research
in operating systems, computer architecture and distributed system,
and teaching a variety of related graduate and undergraduate courses.
He has published widely on the subjects of systems performance and
computer architecture. Dr. Chen has bachelors and masters degrees
from Stanford University and a Ph.D. from Carnegie Mellon University.
SWS, RG1
Expert Audience
English
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Date, Time and Location
Tuesday, 15 December 2009
14:00
60 Minutes
E1 5
5th floor
Saarbrücken
Abstract
Desktop software, in the form of web browsers, browser features,
and OS distributions, are a growing area of engineering activity at Google.
This talk will give an overview of this work, looking in detail at Native
Client as an example project in the space. Native Client is an open-source
technology for running untrusted native code in web applications, with the
goal of maintaining the browser neutrality, OS portability, and safety that
people expect from web apps. It supports performance-oriented features
generally absent from web application programming environments, such as
thread support, instruction set extensions such as SSE, and use of compiler
intrinsics and hand-coded assembler. We combine these properties in an
open architecture designed to leverage existing web standards, and to
encourage community review and 3rd-party tools. Overall, Google's desktop
efforts seek to enable new Web applications, improve end-user experience,
and enable a more flexible balance between client and server computing.
Google has open sourced many of our desktop efforts, in part to encourage
collaboration and independent innovation.
and OS distributions, are a growing area of engineering activity at Google.
This talk will give an overview of this work, looking in detail at Native
Client as an example project in the space. Native Client is an open-source
technology for running untrusted native code in web applications, with the
goal of maintaining the browser neutrality, OS portability, and safety that
people expect from web apps. It supports performance-oriented features
generally absent from web application programming environments, such as
thread support, instruction set extensions such as SSE, and use of compiler
intrinsics and hand-coded assembler. We combine these properties in an
open architecture designed to leverage existing web standards, and to
encourage community review and 3rd-party tools. Overall, Google's desktop
efforts seek to enable new Web applications, improve end-user experience,
and enable a more flexible balance between client and server computing.
Google has open sourced many of our desktop efforts, in part to encourage
collaboration and independent innovation.
Contact
claudia Richter
9325 - 688
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Video Broadcast
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Saarbrücken
E1 4
007
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Carina Schmitt, 12/11/2009 13:54
Claudia Richter, 12/01/2009 13:41
Claudia Richter, 11/30/2009 09:51 -- Created document.
Claudia Richter, 12/01/2009 13:41
Claudia Richter, 11/30/2009 09:51 -- Created document.