SDI/LCS Seminar Schedule

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About the SDI/LCS Seminar Series

The Systems Design and Implementation (SDI) / Laboratory for Computer Systems (LCS) seminar series is an informal gathering of the SCS & ECE systems community over lunch and a talk. The range of talks is broad, covering the structure, implementation and performance of substantial systems. Typically, talks are on operating systems, application systems, communications and language implementations, and are given by both Carnegie Mellon researchers and outside visitors.

SDI seminars may be advertised with only a day's warning through the SDI mailing list. If you would like to subscribe to this list to receive information on upcoming seminars, send mail to Karen with "subscribe SDI-list" in the subject line.

Times, Dates, Locations & Contacts

CIC 2101 on even-numbered Thursdays, Noon to 1 pm
WEH 8220 on odd-numbered Thursdays, Noon to 1 pm

For more info, contact:
; 412-268-6716

Interested in speaking at this forum?

We encourage students to give presentations, especially as practice talks for conferences and thesis work. If you would like to give a talk or recommend a speaker, please send e-mail to
to check the availability of your preferred date with ,
(412-268-6716).

Info for Speakers

The seminar planners require that certain information be emailed to once a seminar date has been set. To properly promote the seminar, we need the following information as far in advance as is possible. Information required includes the seminar talk title, a brief abstract, the speaker's bio, a digital photo of the speaker, their preferred media output (i.e. overhead vs. lcd), any dietary restrictions the speaker has (pizza is served at these seminars) and the name and contact info of the Admin who will be responsible for the speaker's travel arrangements and schedule.

Securely SUBMIT YOUR SEMINAR INFO ONLINE for your upcoming SDI seminar.

FALL 2008 Seminar Schedule

September
4	Colin Dixon U. of Washington	TBA Note room change - Wean Hall 8220

SUMMER 2008 Seminar Schedule

July
21	John Wilkes HP Labs	Delegating Control to Automated Systems
10	Dr. Darryl Veitch University of Melbourne	Probing Convex Networks (Intel Seminar)
10	Arvind Krishnamurthy Univ. Washington	Incentive Mechanisms for Peer-to-Peer Systems
8	Soyeon Park University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign	Fighting with Software Bugs – Memory Corruptions and Atomicity Violation (Joint SDI / IRHPIT Seminar)
June
26	Andrés Lagar Cavilla U. Toronto	SnowFlock: Parallel Cloud Computing Made Agile (Joint Intel/SDI Seminar)
3	Heather Zheng Univ. of California, Santa Barbara	Device-centric Spectrum Management for Pervasive Wireless Systems
2	Haifeng Yu National University of Singapore	Defending against Sybil Attacks via Social Networks (Intel Seminar)

SPRING 2008 Seminar Schedule

May
30	Vasanth Bala & Glenn Ammons IBM T.J. Watson Research Center	Virtual Machine Images as Data: The Mirage Project
22	Michael Isard Microsoft Research	Dryad and DryadLINQ: General-purpose distributed data-parallel programming using a high-level language
13	Feng Zhao, Microsoft Research	Power Management: from tiny embedded devices to warehouse sized data centers
1	Randal Bryant, CMU Steven Schlosser, Intel Research Pittsburgh	Data-Intensive Scalable Computing Building Ground Models of S. California
1	Rupert Croft, CMU	Petascale Cosmology
April
24	Andy Konwinski & Matei Zaharia, UC Berkeley	Monitoring and Debugging Hadoop using X-Trace (Joint SDI / Intel Seminar)
17	James Hendricks, CMU	Byzantine Fault-tolerant Erasure-coded Storage
3	Nick Feamster Georgia Tech	Improving Internet Reliability with Path Splicing (Systems Seminar)
March
27	Lidong Zhou, Microsoft Research	Reconfiguring a State Machine: A Tutorial
February
21	Ajay Surie, CMU PhD Student	Low Bandwidth VM Migration via Opportunistic Replay

FALL 2007 Seminar Schedule

December
6	Matthew Caesar, Princeton	Identity-Based Routing
November
8	Jay J. Wylie, HP	Finding Fault Tolerant XOR-based Erasure Codes for Storage
October
11	James Hendricks, CMU	Low-overhead Byzantine Fault-tolerant Storage
10	John T. Daly Los Alamos National Lab	Performance Challenges for Extreme Scale Computing (slides available)
September
12	Andrés Lagar-Cavilla University of Toronto	Interactive Resource-Intensive Applications Made Easy

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For further seminar info contact at 412-268-6716