Murayyiam did a fantastic job presenting SpliDT at P4 Dev Day!
🗓️ TOMORROW: March 19 at 11 am ET/4 pm CET ✨ P4 Developer Day || SpliDT: Partitioned Decision Trees for Scalable Stateful Inference at Line Rate with Murayyiam Parvez 🎟️ Register here:… | P4 Langua
🗓️ TOMORROW: March 19 at 11 am ET/4 pm CET ✨ P4 Developer Day || SpliDT: Partitioned Decision Trees for Scalable Stateful Inference at Line Rate with Murayyiam Parvez 🎟️ Register here: https://lnkd.in/dMZWEVBj Abstract: Machine learning is increasingly used in programmable data planes, such as switches and smartNICs, to enable real-time traffic analysis and security monitoring at line rate. Decision trees (DTs) are particularly well-suited for these tasks due to their interpretability and co
Woohoo! The NextGArch Lab is on a roll—celebrating its second PhD graduate stepping into the real world. Huge congratulations to the outstanding Dr. Annus Zulfiqar!
Our own, Venkat Kunaparaju, is joining NVIDIA to work on all things networking (for AI and Cloud Gaming). Congratualtion, Venkat!
Huge congratulations, Venkat Kunaparaju! 🎉 It has been a pleasure having you as part of our NextGArch Lab since 2023 ... quickly standing out for your initiative, technical depth, and ability to… |
Huge congratulations, Venkat Kunaparaju! 🎉 It has been a pleasure having you as part of our NextGArch Lab since 2023 ... quickly standing out for your initiative, technical depth, and ability to turn ideas into real systems work. Your contributions to our GigaFlow work on scalable fast paths for Open vSwitch and SmartNICs have been outstanding—presenting it at TechCon and then taking it through HotCHIPs and ASPLOS! 🙏 For an undergraduate student to contribute at this level—across architect
Prof. Shahbaz recognized as a Michigan Housing Honored Instructor. Congratulations!
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Ertza will be presenting our recent work on OptiNIC at the OCP's Time Appliances Project (TAP).
For our next OCPTAP session, we have Ertza Warraich, systems and networking researcher and recent Ph.D. graduate from Purdue University. Ertza will present OptiNIC, a domain-specific RDMA transport… |
For our next OCPTAP session, we have Ertza Warraich, systems and networking researcher and recent Ph.D. graduate from Purdue University. Ertza will present OptiNIC, a domain-specific RDMA transport designed for large-scale distributed machine learning. His talk explores how relaxing traditional reliability and in-order delivery guarantees can dramatically reduce tail latency and improve throughput across multi-GPU, high-speed interconnects. The session will cover: • Why strict RDMA semantics be
Mohammad Naqvi, in Prof. Shahbaz's CS 598 seminar course on In-Network ML, wins the Qualcomm Master's Fellowship. Many congratulations!
SpliDT accepted to NSDI '26. Congratulations, Murayyiam Parvez, Annus Zulfiqar, and the team!
SPLIDT Accepted to NSDI2026: Scalable Stateful Inference at Line Rate | Muhammad Shahbaz posted on the topic | LinkedIn
🚨 Big and humbling news! Our paper SPLIDT: Partitioned Decision Trees for Scalable Stateful Inference at Line Rate has been accepted to #NSDI2026! 🎉 In-network ML has long been caught between a rock and a hard place—accuracy or scalability. SPLIDT says: why not both? SPLIDT reimagines how decision trees operate in programmable data planes by: • ✂️ Partitioning trees into subtrees with their own stateful features, • 🔁 Recirculating packets to reuse registers and match-action tables (MATs) ac
Woo hoo! NextGArch Lab proudly celebrates its very first PhD graduate—congratulations to the one and only Dr. Ertza Warraich!
Celeris accepted to IEEE CAL '25. Congratulations, Ertza Warraich, Ali Imran, Annus Zulfiqar, and the team!
How ML can transform transport: A new paper on RDMA and ML | Muhammad Shahbaz posted on the topic | LinkedIn
Transport is the next frontier in accelerating foundation models, and getting there means "Reimagining RDMA Through the Lens of ML"! In our upcoming paper in IEEE CAL'25, we explore how a domain-specific focus can supercharge transport for ML workloads. https://lnkd.in/eF4EaciF This work is being spearheaded by my daring and relentless students, Ertza Warraich, Ali Imran, and Annus Zulfiqar, along with our amazing collaborators, Shay Vargaftik and Sonia Fahmy! ACM SIGARCH | Purdue Computer Sc
Gigaflow accepted as a table-top demo at the P4 Workshop, co-located with 2025 OCP Global Summit. Congratulations to the team and to our rising UG student, Advay Singh, for taking the lead!
Marilyn Rego off to present our work on SplitDT at TECHON '25. Congratulations, Marilyn and the team!
#techcon2025 | Marilyn Rego
I’m thrilled to share that I’ll be giving a talk on “SpliDT: Partitioned Decision Trees for Scalable Stateful ML Inference at Line Rate” at #TECHCON2025, hosted by Semiconductor Research Corporation (SRC). SpliDT rethinks how machine learning can run inside programmable switches. Instead of forcing all flows to use the same fixed features, SpliDT partitions decision trees so each part uses the features it actually needs. The result: higher accuracy, 5× more features, and supports millions of fl
NetSparse accepted to MICRO '25. Congratulations, Gerasimos Gerogiannis, Dimitrios Merkouriadis, Charles Block, Annus Zulfiqar, and the team!
Sparse workloads are everywhere—from ML to scientific computing—but scaling them across datacenter nodes hits a hard wall: network bottlenecks. | Muhammad Shahbaz
Sparse workloads are everywhere—from ML to scientific computing—but scaling them across datacenter nodes hits a hard wall: network bottlenecks. 🧱🧱🧱 Enter NetSparse: a new network architecture designed to supercharge distributed sparse computations. By pushing communication logic into NICs and switches, NetSparse slashes traffic, eliminates redundancy, and brings us dramatically closer to ideal scaling! 🚀🚀🚀 Huge congrats to Gerasimos Gerogiannis for leading the effort and my amazing co-au
Ali Imran presented our GigaFlow project at the MEDS Lab, University of Engineering and Technology (UET)!
🧠 𝗙𝗿𝗼𝗺 𝗧𝗿𝗮𝘃𝗲𝗿𝘀𝗮𝗹𝘀 𝘁𝗼 𝗧𝗿𝗮𝗶𝗻𝗶𝗻𝗴 — 𝗔 𝗗𝗲𝗲𝗽 𝗗𝗶𝘃𝗲 𝘄𝗶𝘁𝗵 𝗔𝗹𝗶 𝗜𝗺𝗿𝗮𝗻 🚀💬 | Maktab-e-Digital Systems
🧠 𝗙𝗿𝗼𝗺 𝗧𝗿𝗮𝘃𝗲𝗿𝘀𝗮𝗹𝘀 𝘁𝗼 𝗧𝗿𝗮𝗶𝗻𝗶𝗻𝗴 — 𝗔 𝗗𝗲𝗲𝗽 𝗗𝗶𝘃𝗲 𝘄𝗶𝘁𝗵 𝗔𝗹𝗶 𝗜𝗺𝗿𝗮𝗻 🚀💬 We had the privilege of welcoming one of 𝗠𝗘𝗗𝗦 𝗟𝗮𝗯’𝘀 𝗲𝗮𝗿𝗹𝗶𝗲𝘀𝘁 𝘁𝗿𝗮𝗶𝗻𝗶𝗻𝗴 𝗺𝗮𝗻𝗮𝗴𝗲𝗿𝘀, Ali Imran, for an engaging and insight-packed session — reconnecting with the lab and sharing the cutting-edge research he's been involved in since. Ali walked us through a spectrum of cutting-edge topics — from 𝘀𝗺𝗮𝗿𝘁𝗹𝘆 𝗽𝗮𝗿𝘁𝗶𝘁𝗶𝗼𝗻𝗶𝗻𝗴 𝘁𝗿𝗮𝘃𝗲𝗿𝘀𝗮𝗹 𝗮
Enkeleda Bardhi gave an inspiring talk at Euro S&P on how collaborative DDoS detection strategies, powered by programmable data planes, can lead to impressive gains. Congratulations, Enkeleda!
Prof. Shahbaz gave an invited talk during the IA382: Seminar in Computer Engineering at FEEC/UNICAMP!
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Fast, Flexible, and Intelligent Next-Generation Networks and Systems
Abstract # Maintaining strict security and performance objectives in next-generation cloud and edge networks demands that compute-intensive management and control decisions are made on the current state of the entire network (e.
SpliDT accepted to SRC TECHCON '25. Many congratulations to Marilyn Rego (Undergraduate Lead), Murayyiam Parvez, Annus Zulfiqar, and the team!
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TECHCON 2025 (Event E007206) - SRC
Join us for TECHCON 2025, the premier conference for innovation and excellence in the semiconductor industry! Taking place September 7-10, 2025, at the Renaissance Hotel in Austin, Texas, this exclusive, members-only event brings together industry leaders, researchers, students, and recruiters to explore cutting-edge advancements, exchange ideas, and build the future of microelectronics.
Gigaflow and SpliDT accepted into this year’s Google Summer of Code (GSoC) cohort. Congratulations to Advay Singh and Sankalp Jha for their successful proposals and for leading the projects this summer!
📢🎉 Thrilled to share that NextGArch Lab’s projects, Gigaflow and SpliDT,… | Muhammad Shahbaz
📢🎉 Thrilled to share that NextGArch Lab’s projects, Gigaflow and SpliDT, have been accepted into this year’s Google Summer of Code (GSoC) cohort! The projects will be led by Advay Singh, a rising undergraduate in Computer Science and Engineering at the University of Michigan, and Sankalp Jha from AJAY KUMAR GARG ENGINEERING COLLEGE, GHAZIABAD—supported by an incredible team of mentors from Google and NextGArch Lab! NextGArch Lab: https://lnkd.in/geqB2Xyq Gigaflow: https://lnkd.in/gEvn5WE9 Go
Ertza Warraich inducted into the Phi Kappa Phi Society at Purdue University. Huge congratulations, Ertza!
Woot! Bilal Saleem is off to Arrcus this Summer!
O'MINE accepted to Euro S&P '25. Congratulations, Enkeleda Bardhi, Ali Imran, and the team!
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IEEE European Symposium on Security and Privacy 2025 (EuroS&P)
Since 1980, the IEEE Symposium on Security and Privacy has been the premier forum for presenting developments in computer security and electronic privacy, and for bringing together researchers and practitioners in the field. Following this story of success, IEEE initiated the European Symposium on Security and Privacy
HardHarvest accepted to ISCA '25. Congratulations, Jovan Stojkovic, Chunao Liu, and the team!
Ali Imran, Annus Zulfiqar, and Prof. Shahbaz are co-mentoring P4 GSoC this year!
Gigaflow accepted to ASPLOS '25. Congratulations, Annus Zulfiqar and the team!
Prof. Shahbaz started at the University of Michigan as Assistant Professor!
Bilal Saleem, Omar Basit, and team won IEEE CS North America Student Challenge!
OptiReduce accepted to NSDI '25. Congratulations, Ertza Warraich and the team!
Caravan selected as one of the best papers at SRC JUMP 2.0 this year!
Our work on "A Smart Cache for a SmartNIC!" will appear at HotChips '24. Congrats, Annus Zulfiqar and the team!
Prof. Shahbaz receives the Google Research Scholar Award '24 for Robust and Tail-Optimal Collective Communication for Distributed Training in the Cloud!
Prof. Shahbaz receives an NSF CC* award for Programmable Network Testbed for 400 Gbps Science DMZ, with the Purdue ECE and RCAC colleagues!
Caravan accepted to OSDI '24. Congratulations, Qizheng Zhang, Ali Imran, and the team!
Our lab wins the NSF CAREER Award 2024 to democratize and disseminate per-packet AI!
Prof. Shahbaz receives the Undergraduate Advising Award from the College of Science at Purdue!
μManycore receives the IEEE MICRO Top Picks '24 (Honorable Mention). Many congratulations Chunao Liu and the team!
A pleasure to have Dr. Bruce Davie remotely visit our CS 422 class at Purdue CS to talk about the tussle between centralization and decentralization in networking.
Prof. Shahbaz receives Purdue University’s Seed for Success Acorn Award. Many Congratulations!
Our work on Cellular Traffic Modelling and Generation receives the IMC '23 Best Paper Award (Runner Up). Congratulations team!
Our paper on LTE/5G control-plane traffic modeling and generation accepted to IMC '23. Congratulations team!
Prof. Shahbaz will co-chair the P4 Education WG with Fernando Ramos!
Prof. Shahbaz's CS 422 course at Purdue highlighted in Systems Approach's blog post on Open Source: Another Value Proposition.
Prof. Shahbaz talked about the future of ML hardware for networking in the Measurements for Self-Driving Networks workshop at ACM SIGMETRICS 2023!
Homunculus receives the ASPLOS '23 Distinguished Artifact Award. Congratulations, Tushar Swamy, Annus Zulfiqar, and the team!
Our paper on slow-path accelerators is accepted to SIGCOMM CCR '23. Congratulations, Annus Zulfiqar and the team!
Prof. Shahbaz gave a talk on Next-Generation Networks and Systems at IISc Bangalore. Thank you, Parimal Parag, for hosting!
uManycore accepted to ISCA '23. Congratulations, Jovan Stojkovic, Chunao Liu, and the team!
Homunculus accepted to ASPLOS '23. Congratulations Tushar Swamy, Annus Zulfiqar, and the team!
Taurus receives the IEEE Micro Top Picks '23 (Honorable Mention). Congratulations team!
Prof. Shahbaz talked about the various R&D developments on 5G/6G/NextG happening at Purdue CS, ECE, and Research Foundation!
We are all set to make the next-generation distributed and evolvable computing stack a reality in our recent $30M+ JUMP 2.0 ACE center. Thank you, SRC and DARPA!
Congratulations to our amazing undergraduate student, Regan McDonald, and the team on their upcoming paper at the SIGCOMM NAIC '26 Workshop!