PARALLEL DATA LAB 

18th Annual Workshop & Retreat
October 25 - 27, 2010

Agenda


Monday, October 25: 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 - 10:15 am Speaker -- SINGLETON ROOM

Onur Mutlu - Opportunities and Challenges of NVRAM Main Memory

10:15 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: Tools for Debugging Distributed Systems
-- COLONNADE BALLROOM

Jiri Simsa - dBug: Systematic Evaluation of Distributed Systems

Raja Sambasivan - Diagnosing Performance Changes by Comparing Request Flows

3:30 pm - 3:45 pm Break -- CONSTITUTION HALL
3:45 pm - 6:00 pm Session II: More Understanding and Controlling of Systems
-- COLONNADE BALLROOM

Michael Kasick - Behavior-Based Problem Localization for Parallel File Systems

Soila Kavulya - Fusing Black-box and White-box Data for Diagnosis

Michelle Mazurek - Toward Usable Access Control for Home Data Sharing

6:00 pm - 7:30 pm Dinner -- EISENHOWER BALLROOM
7:30 pm - 8:30 pm Session III: Short Work-in-Progress Talks -- COLONNADE BALLROOM

Yuan Liang - A Logical Infrastructure for Access Control at Home

Hyeontaek Lim - Memory-Efficient Indexing for Flash-Based Key-Value Stores

Milo Polte - PLFS on Jaguar/Lustre at Scale

Garth Gibson - Shingled Writing for Magnetic Disk Drives

8:30 pm - 10:30 pm Reception/Poster Session I -- COLONNADE BALLROOM

Tuesday, October 26: Bedford Springs Resort

8:15 am - 9:00 am Continental Breakfast -- CONSTITUTION HALL
9:00 am - 10:30 am Session IV: Efficient Data-intensive Computing -- COLONNADE BALLROOM

Vijay Vasudevan - Rethinking OS Support for High-Performance Flash Storage

Elie Krevat - Exploring Inefficiency in Data-intensive Computing

10:30 am - 10:45 am Break -- CONSTITUTION HALL
10:45 am - 12:15 pm Session V: Data-intensive Computing Specialization and Use
-- COLONNADE BALLROOM

Jim Cipar - Dynamic Server Assignment in LazyBase

Wolfgang Richter - Retrospecting VM Images

12:15 pm - 1:30 pm Lunch -- EISENHOWER BALLROOM
1:30 pm - 3:30 pm Socializing and Chat-filled Walk
3:30 pm - 5:00 pm Session VI: Reliability Scheme Redux -- COLONNADE BALLROOM

Bin Fan - DiskReduce Analysis

Lin Xiao - Reliability Modeling for Large Scale Declustered Storage

5:00 pm - 6:00 pm Special Presentation
6:00 pm - 7:30 pm Dinner -- EISENHOWER BALLROOM
7:30 pm - 8:30 pm Session VII: Short Work-In-Progress Talks -- COLONNADE BALLROOM

Wittawat Tantisiriroj - RAIDTool: A First Step to RAID 6 in HDFS

Kai Ren - Hadoop Monitoring

Garth Gibson - PRObE: A New Large Scale System Test Facility

Greg Ganger - CMU Clouds by PDL

8:30 pm - 10:00 pm Reception/Poster Session II -- COLONNADE BALLROOM


Wednesday, October 27: Bedford Springs Resort


Morning Workshop Talks
8:45am - 9:15am Continental Breakfast
9:15am - 11:30am Session VIII: Scale, Sharing, and Speed -- COLONNADE BALLROOM

Swapnil Patil - GIGA+: Towards FS Directories with Billion Files

Matthew Wachs - Improving Bandwidth Guarantees with Performance Insulation

Iulian Moraru - Fast Grep with Feed-Forward Bloom Filters

Afternoon Feedback, Departure
11:30am - 1:15pm Lunch and Industry Feedback
1:30pm Buses depart for Pittsburgh Airport & CMU (one in each direction)
4:00pm Arrive at Airport
4:00pm
Arrive at CMU



CONTACTS:


    Director, Parallel Data Lab
    VOICE: (412) 268-1297


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


    PDL Administrative Manager
    VOICE: (412) 268-6716