Parallel Data Laboratory

PARALLEL DATA LAB

17th Annual Workshop & Retreat
November 9 - 11, 2009

Agenda

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RETREAT RESOURCES (Industry attendees, contact your Liaison for the username/password or for more information).

Monday, November 9: CMU/Bedford Springs Resort

8:30 am - 9:00 am	Registration & Continental Breakfast -- SINGLETON ROOM, ROBERTS HALL
9:00 am - 9:30 am	Welcome -- SINGLETON ROOM Greg Ganger - Parallel Data Lab Retreat Welcome & Overview
9:30 am - 10:30 am	Speaker-- SINGLETON ROOM Seth Goldstein - Claytronics and Parallel Computing
10:30 am - 11:30 am	Industry Poster Session -- ROBERTS HALL ATRIUM
11:30 am - 1:45 pm	Bus Ride to Bedford Springs & Lunch -- FREW STREET
2:00 pm - 3:30 pm	Session I: Energy & Efficiency -- COLONNADE BALLROOM Vijay Vasudevan - FAWN: A Fast Array of Wimpy Nodes Elie Krevat - Seeking Efficient Data-Intensive Computing
3:30 pm - 3:45 pm	Break -- CONSTITUTION HALL
3:45 pm - 6:00 pm	Session II: Data Distributions and Usage -- COLONNADE BALLROOM Soila Kavulya - An Analysis of Traces from a Production MapReduce Cluster Wittawat Tantisiriroj - DiskReduce: Making Room for More Data on DISCs Jim Cipar - Power Proportionality in HDFS
6:00 pm - 7:30 pm	Dinner -- EISENHOWER BALLROOM
7:30 pm - 8:30 pm	Session III: Short Work-In-Progress Talks -- COLONNADE BALLROOM - Ippokratis Pandis: Shore-MT: A Scalable Storage Manager for the Multicore Era - Julio López: Data-Intensive eScience at CMU - Bin Fu: Astronomy Application of Map-Reduce: A Distributed Friends-of-Friends Algorithm - Aditya Prakash: BGP-lens: Patterns and Anomalies in Internet Routing Updates
8:30 pm - 10:30 pm	Reception/Poster Session I -- COLONNADE BALLROOM

Tuesday, November 10: Bedford Springs Resort

8:15 am - 9:00 am	Continental Breakfast -- CONSTITUTION HALL
9:00 am - 10:30 am	Session VI: Toward QoS and Access Control -- COLONNADE BALLROOM Matthew Wachs - Performance Insulation: A Foundation for Storage QoS Michelle Mazurek - Access Control at Home: Attitudes, Needs, Practices
10:30 am - 10:45 am	Break -- CONSTITUTION HALL
10:45 am - 12:15 pm	Session V: What’s Happening to My Storage Performance? -- COLONNADE BALLROOM Mike Kasick - Black-Box Problem Diagnosis in Parallel File Systems Raja Sambasivan - Diagnosing Performance Problems by Comparing System Behaviours
12:15 pm - 1:30 pm	Lunch -- EISENHOWER BALLROOM
1:30 pm - 3:45 pm	Socializing and Chat-filled Walk
3:45 pm - 6:00 pm	Session VI: Scaling Effectively -- COLONNADE BALLROOM Milo Polte - PLFS: The Parallel Log-Structured File System Shafeeq Sinnamohideen - Scaling Metadata in Ursa Minor Ippokratis Pandis - Data-Oriented Transaction Execution
6:00 pm - 7:30 pm	Dinner -- EISENHOWER BALLROOM
7:30 pm - 8:30 pm	Session VII: Short Work-In-Progress Talks -- COLONNADE BALLROOM - Lawrence Tan: A Flash-based Filesystem for Transient Data - Luca Parolini: Thermal-Computational Control for Data Center Energy Efficiency - Sarun Savetsila: Scalable Distributed Table Storage System Experiments on OpenCloud - Lin Xiao: Reliability Modeling for Large Scale Declustered Storage
8:30 pm - 10:00 pm	Reception/Poster Session II -- COLONNADE BALLROOM

Wednesday, November 11: Bedford Springs Resort

8:45 am - 9:30 am	Continental Breakfast -- CONSTITUTION HALL
9:30 am - 11:00 am	Session VIII: What Happened? -- COLONNADE BALLROOM Tudor Dumitraş - Dependable, Online Upgrades in Enterprise Systems Amar Phanishayee - Solving TCP Incast (and more) with Fine-grained TCP Timeouts
11:00 am - 11:15 am	Break -- CONSTITUTION HALL
11:15 am - 1:00 pm	Lunch and Industry Feedback -- COLONNADE BALLROOM
1:15 pm	Buses to Airport and CMU (one each)
3:30 pm	Arrive at Airport
3:30 pm	Arrive at CMU

CONTACTS:

Executive Director, Parallel Data Lab
VOICE: (412) 268-5485

PDL Administrative Manager
VOICE: (412) 268-6716