Proposals

Andi Kleen

Andi Kleen

Intel

Biography

Andi Kleen has been contributing to the Linux kernel since the mid 90ies.
He worked on many different areas, including network stacks, VM, scalability,
NUMA, performance tuning, file systems, error handling and low level
architecture code.

He was the initial maintainer of the x86-64 Linux port, nursing it from
obscurity to wide deployment and also mainted the 32bit x86 port for
a few years.

Andi spent nearly 10 years in SuSE Labs at SUSE, later Novell as a kernel
engineer. He joined the Intel Open Source Technology Center in 2008 where
he is working on reliability and scalability for Intel servers.

His other software interests include
compilers and cryptography. He also enjoys learning about biology.

Proposals for this user

* Linux Kernel Scalability for Systems with Large Number of CPUs

We will discuss the issues and lessons we have learned scaling Linux to systems with 64 or more cpu cores, and work that still remain.
Refereed Presentations 07/19/2010
Tim Chen, Andi Kleen