Nathan Farrington PhD Student University of California, San Diego Department of Computer Science and Engineering 9500 Gilman Drive, M/C 0404 La Jolla, CA 92093-0404 My email username is farrington and my mail server is cs.ucsd.edu.

Research

My research is focused on improving the performance and power efficiency of data center networks. My advisor is Amin Vahdat and I am part of the sysnet research group.

Publications

Data Center Switch Architecture in the Age of Merchant Silicon
Nathan Farrington, Erik Rubow, and Amin Vahdat
IEEE Symposium on High-Performance Interconnects, New York City, New York, August 2009 (BibTeX) (Slides)

How do you build a 3,456-port Ethernet switch out of commodity parts?

PortLand: A Scalable Fault-Tolerant Layer 2 Data Center Network Fabric
Radhika Niranjan Mysore, Andreas Pamboris, Nathan Farrington, Nelson Huang, Pardis Miri, Sivasankar Radhakrishnan, Vikram Subramanya, and Amin Vahdat
ACM SIGCOMM, Barcelona, Spain, August 2009 (BibTeX)

How do you build a high-performance 100,000-node data center Ethernet network without the presence of forwarding loops, without introducing new switch hardware, and without modifying the server software?