PARALLEL DATA LAB 

RETREAT 2006

14th Annual Workshop & Retreat
October 4 - 6, 2006

PRESENTATIONS

 

WELCOME AND INTRODUCTION

Greg Ganger - Parallel Data Lab Research and Retreat Overview 2006
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SESSION I: Predictability and Utility

Eno Thereska - What-If Analysis in Ursa Minor
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Matthew Wachs - Argon: Performance Insulation for Shared Storage Servers
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John Strunk -Using Utility Functions to Control a Distributed Storage System
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SESSION II: Forecasting Problems and Fingerpointing

Jimeng Sun - InteMon: Continuous Mining of Sensor Data In Large-Scale Self-* Infrastructures
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Mike Kasick - Toward Fingerpointing in the Emulab Dynamic Distributed System
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Alice Zheng - Failure Diagnosis of Software and Systems
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SESSION III: Short Work-In-Progress Talks

Soila Pertet: Fingerpointing in Replicated Systems
Raja Sambasivan: Clustering Activity Trace Data for Performance Debugging
Michael Abd-El-Malek: Automatic Instrumentation for Request Tracing
Garth Gibson: Research in the Petascale Data Storage Institute (PDSI)

 

SESSION IV: On Scaling

Bianca Schroeder - Failures in The Real World: Collecting, Analyzing and Exploiting Failure Data from Real, Large Systems
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Shafeeq Sinnamohideen -Eliminating Cross-Server Operations in Scalable File Systems
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SESSION V: Supporting Scientific Computations

Stratos Papadomanolakis - Efficient Query Processing on Unstructured Tetrahedral Meshes
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Mike Mesnier - //TRACE: Parallel Trace Replay with Approximate Causal Events
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SESSION VI: Distributed Data Managament and Movement

Brandon Salmon - Putting Home Data Management into Perspective
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David Andersen - Data-Oriented Transfer
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Alina Oprea - Integrity Checking in Cryptographic File Systems with Constant Trusted Storage
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SESSION VII: More WIP Talks

Adam Pennington: Heterogeneous Intrusion Detection Fusion
James Hendricks: Secure Dynamic Membership
Andrew Klosterman: Storage Management in Object-based Storage Systems
Mike Mesnier: Modeling the Relative Fitness of Storage Devices

 

SESSION VIII: New Distributed Computing Approaches

Niraj Tolia - Dimorphic Computing
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Joe Slember - Static Analysis Meets Distributed Fault-Tolerance: Enabling State-Machine Replication with Nondeterminism
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SESSION IX: Database Implementation Techniques

Nikos Hardavellas - Database Servers on Chip Multiprocessors: Limitations and Opportunities
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 Minglong Shao - Exploring Multidimensional Access in DBMS
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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