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SUMMARY:Pretending to be a computer - Bence Szépkúti\, Churchill College
DTSTART:20170301T190000Z
DTEND:20170301T193000Z
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CONTACT:Matthew Ireland
DESCRIPTION:Hardware virtualisation – the virtualisation of computers as
  complete hardware platforms – is currently used worldwide\, by CDNs and
  Cloud provides to scale their servers dynamically with user demand\, by p
 rogrammers to test their programs on multiple Operating Systems easily and
  by developers of Operating Systems as themselves. Such is its importance\
 , that hardware support for virtualisation has been introduced by all majo
 r processor manufacturers in the last decade – increasing its performanc
 e to near-native levels.\n\nIn this talk\, we shall illustrate some advant
 ages and pitfalls of virtualisation by examining the architecture and feat
 ures of Xen\, a popular Open Source virtualisation platform. We shall disc
 uss some specific design decisions and use cases for Xen\, and provide liv
 e demonstration of its use and capabilities. Finally\, we shall examine ho
 w service providers and developers can use Xen and virtualisation in gener
 al to conserve limited hardware resources and reduce complexity.
LOCATION:Wolfson Hall\, Churchill College
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