CAESAR Lab

Research area: Low-level systems software for cloud and supercomputing with extensive industrial collaborations.

What we do: We build the low-level software that makes the world’s biggest computers work. Our software is the only layer between applications and hardware, bypassing the operating system directly into the network. CAESAR lab concentrates on communication inside hyper-scale systems where tens of thousands of individual computers make up the cloud/supercomputer.

Impact: Dr. Grant’s work has been incorporated into every major next-generation supercomputer worldwide and has been used by collaborators like Nvidia, Intel, AMD, HPE, Fujitsu, Bull-Atos and more. Our communications software is used by hundreds of thousands of users each year and is distributed by major companies like Intel. Students in the lab work on system software used by applications that enables ultra-high performance network communication and extreme levels of parallelism both locally and system wide (millions of cores all working on the same multi-Petabyte sized problem). This work gets applied in very large scientific computations enabling large scale engineering simulations for safety like aircraft modelling, important scientific applications like climate modeling, pharmaceutical research, fundamental scientific discovery like astrophysics and fusion power simulation.

Research keywords: Cloud, HPC, Hyperscale, Supercomputing, Scientific Computing, Networking, Smart Networks, Datacenter Computing, Extreme-scale Computing