19th Annual Workshop & Retreat
November 7 - 9, 2011
Agenda
- 2011 PDL Fall Update (pdf)
- 2011 PDL PACKET (pdf)
We are pleased to welcome our PDL Consortium Member Companies
to the 19th Annual Parallel Data Lab Workshop and Retreat.
OUR NEWSLETTER
2011 RETREAT RESOURCES
(Industry attendees, contact your Liaison for the username/password or
for more information)
Monday, November 7: 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
Carlos Guestrin: GraphLab: A New Parallel Framework for Machine Learning |
| 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: DISC Benchmarks and Understanding Performance -- COLONNADE BALLROOM Swapnil Patil: YCSB++ : Benchmarking and Performance Debugging Advanced Features in Scalable Table Stores Kai Ren: Resource Attribution and Metrics Correlation in Clouds |
| 3:30 pm - 3:45 pm | Break -- CONSTITUTION HALL |
| 3:45 pm - 6:00 pm | Session II: Changing for New Storage Models -- COLONNADE BALLROOM Iulian Moraru: Persistent, Protected and Cached: Building Blocks for Main Memory Data Stores Jim Cipar: Jackrabbit: Improved Agility in Elastic Distributed Storage Garth Gibson: Shingled Disks and their File Systems: ShingledFS |
| 6:00 pm - 7:30 pm | Dinner -- EISENHOWER BALLROOM |
| 7:30 pm - 8:30 pm | Session III: Short Work-in-Progress Talks -- COLONNADE BALLROOM
Alexey Tumanov: Large-Scale Distributed Cluster Resource Scheduling Jin Kyu Kim: Active SSD for Table Storage Elie Krevat: Disks Are Like Snowflakes: No Two Are Alike Ilari Shafer: vQuery: A Platform for Connecting Configuration with Performance |
| 8:30 pm - 10:30 pm | Reception/Poster Session I -- COLONNADE BALLROOM |
Tuesday, November 8: Bedford Springs Resort
| 8:15 am - 9:00 am | Full Breakfast -- CRYSTAL DINDING ROOM |
| 9:00 am - 10:30 am | Session IV: Diagnosing Distributed Storage Performance -- COLONNADE BALLROOM Raja Sambasivan: Diagnosing Performance Changes By Comparing Request Flows Mike Kasick: Black-Box Localization of Storage Problems in Parallel File Systems |
| 10:30 am - 10:45 am | Break -- CONSTITUTION HALL |
| 10:45 am - 12:15 pm | Session V: Scaling Correctly -- COLONNADE BALLROOM
Jiri Simsa: Efficient Exploratory Testing of Concurrent Systems Jim Cipar: LazyBase: Trading Freshness for Performance in a Scalable Database |
| 12:15 pm - 1:30 pm | Lunch -- EISENHOWER BALLROOM |
| 1:30 pm - 3:30 pm | Socializing and Chat-filled Walk -- HOTEL GROUNDS Wii games room available 1:00 pm to midnight -- WIILLOW ROOM |
| 3:30 pm - 5:00 pm | Session VI: Reliability Scheme Redux -- COLONNADE BALLROOM
Onur Mutlu: Issues in DRAM and NVM based Main Memory Hyeontaek Lim: SILT: A Memory-efficient High-performance Key-value Store |
| 5:00 pm - 6:00 pm | Session VII: Short Work-In-Progress Talks -- COLONNADE BALLROOM
Bin Fan: DiskReduce Reprise Ben Blum: Landslide: Systematic Dynamic Race Detection in Kernel-space Wolf Richter: Virtual Contact Sheets Lin Xiao: Scalable Metadata Service in HDFS |
| 6:00 pm - 7:30 pm | Dinner -- EISENHOWER BALLROOM |
| 7:30 pm - 8:30 pm | Session VIII: Short Work-In-Progress Talks -- COLONNADE BALLROOM
Elmer Garduno: Interactive User Interface for Diagnosis in MapReduce Systems Elie Krevat: Managing Inter-Service Performance Dependencies Peter Klemperer: A Framework for Hypervisor-based Malware Detection Bin Fan: Provable Load Balancing for Randomly Partitioned Cluster Services |
| 8:30 pm - 10:00 pm | Reception/Poster Session II -- COLONNADE BALLROOM |
Wednesday, November 9: Bedford Springs Resort
| Morning | Workshop Talks |
| 8:45am - 9:15am | Full Breakfast -- CRYSTAL DINDING ROOM Continental Breakfast -- CONSTITUTION HALL |
| 9:15am - 11:30am | Session VIII: Control, Design, and Diagnosis -- COLONNADE BALLROOM Michelle Mazurek: Toward Usable Access Control for Shared Personal Storage Wittawat Tantisiriroj: On the Duality of Data-intensive File System Design: Reconciling HDFS and PVFS Soila Kavulya: Diagnosing Chronic Problems in Distributed Systems |
| 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