22nd Annual Workshop & Retreat
October 27 - 29, 2014
INFO & Agenda
- 2014 PDL Fall Update (pdf)
- 2014 PDL PACKET (pdf)
We are pleased to welcome our PDL Consortium Member Companies
to the 22nd Annual Parallel Data Lab Workshop and Retreat.
GENERAL INFORMATION
OUR NEWSLETTER
(Industry attendees, contact your Liaison for the username/password or for more information).
Retreat Agenda
Monday, October 27: CMU/Bedford Springs Resort
| 8:30 am - 9:00 am | Registration & Continental Breakfast |
| 9:00 am - 9:30 am | Welcome
Greg Ganger - Parallel Data Lab 2014 Retreat Welcome & Overview |
| 9:30 am - 10:30 am | Speaker
Onur Mutlu - Memory Systems: Opportunities and Challenges |
| 10:30 am - 11:30 am | Industry Poster Session |
| 11:30 am - 1:45 pm | Bus Ride to Bedford Springs & Lunch |
| 2:00 pm - 3:30 pm | Session I: Specializing Storage Implementations Kai Ren - IndexFS: Scaling File System Metadata Throughput Anuj Kalia - Using RDMA Efficiently for Key-Value Services |
| 3:30 pm - 3:45 pm | Break |
| 3:45 pm - 6:00 pm | Session II: Resource Scheduling Never Ends Joy Arulraj - Let’s Talk About Database Systems for Non-Volatile Memory Alexey Tumanov - TetriSched: Space-Time Scheduling for Heterogeneous Datacenters Timmy Zhu - PriorityMeister: Tail Latency QoS for Shared Networked Storage |
| 6:00 pm - 7:30 pm | Dinner |
| 7:30 pm - 8:30 pm | Session III: Short Work-in-Progress Talks Short talks on new research activities, pushing for visits to posters. Henggang Cui - Ingest-time Transformations in Time Series Database Qing Zheng - BatchFS: Scalable Metadata Middleware for HPC File Systems Saurabh Kadekodi - Opportunistic Cleaning in Shingled Disks Hongyi Xin - Accelerating Iterative Map-Reduce Applications with GPUs |
| 8:30 pm - 10:30 pm | Reception/Poster Session I |
Tuesday, October 28: Bedford Springs Resort
| 8:15 am - 9:00 am | Full Breakfast Continental Breakfast |
| 9:00 am - 10:30 am | Session IV: Parameter Servers for ML Mu Li - Scaling Distributed Machine Learning with the Parameter Server Henggang Cui - Exploiting Iterative-ness for Parallel ML Computations |
| 10:30 am - 10:45 am | Break |
| 10:45 am - 12:00 pm | Session V: Mitigation and Disk Interfaces Jin Kyu Kim - STRADS: Scheduling for Parallel Machine Learning Garth Gibson - Channeling Eric Brewer’s TMRC Talk |
| 12:00 pm - 1:30 pm | Lunch |
| 1:30 pm - 3:00 pm | Socializing and Chat-filled Walk Wii games room available 1:00 pm to midnight |
| 3:00 pm - 4:30 pm | Session VI: Robustness and Performance Ben Blum - Automatic Selection of Preemption Points for Concurrency Testing Hyeontaek Lim - Resource-Efficient Key-Value Store Designs |
| 4:30 pm - 4:45 pm | Break |
| 4:45 pm - 6:15 pm | Session VII: Better Distributed Services Elie Krevat - Reactive Performance Problem Mitigation in Complex Services Lianghong Xu - Partial Deduplication for Geo-replicated Document Databases |
| 6:15 pm - 7:30 pm | Dinner |
| 7:30 pm - 8:30 pm | Session VIII: Short Work-In-Progress Talks
Short talks on new research activities, pushing for visits to posters. Thomas Marshall - ThomasDB: Automatic Incremental Computation for Big Data Jinliang Wei - Managed Communication For Fast, Large-Scale, Iterative Data Analytics Samira Khan - Transparent Consistency: A New Mechanism for Managing Hybrid Non-Volatile Memory Systems Lei Cao - In-situ Free-analysis Mechanism for HPC Checkpoint |
| 8:30 pm - 10:00 pm | Reception/Poster Session II |
Wednesday, October 29: Bedford Springs Resort
| Morning | Workshop Talks |
| 8:45am - 9:15am | Full Breakfast Continental Breakfast |
| 9:15am - 11:30am | Session IX: Watching, Trying, Scaling Wolf Richter - Agentless Cloud-wide Monitoring of Virtual Disk State Yixin Luo - Characterizing Application Memory Error Vulnerability to Optimize Datacenter Cost via Heterogeneous-Reliability Memory Lin Xiao: ShardFS: Sharded Files with Replicated Directories |
| 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 |
2013 PDL Workshop Attendees
Chris Murphy, Actifio
Christopher Provenzano, Actifio
Sorin Faibish, EMC
Erik Riedel, EMC
Stephen Smaldone, EMC
Robert Wipfel, Fusion-io
Nisha Talagala, Fusion-io
Manisha Jain, Google
John Wilkes, Google
Yoshi Masuoka, Hitachi Ltd.
Kenta Shiga, Hitachi Ltd.
Kim Keeton, HP Labs
Cameron Bahar, Huawei Technology
Tao Hui, Huawei Technology
Haipei Zhu, Huawei Technology
Scott Hahn, Intel Corporation
Michael Kozuch, Intel Corporation
Ran Kurup, Intel Corporation
Gary Grider, Los Alamos National Laboratory
Carolyn Connor, Los Alamos National Laboratory
Rich Draves, Microsoft Research
Amar Phanishayee, Microsoft Research
Nitin Agrawal, NEC Labs
Cristian Ungureanu, NEC Labs
Jerry Fredin, NetApp Inc.
Jeff Heller, NetApp Inc.
Jiri Schindler, NetApp Inc.
Daniel Tennant, NetApp Inc.
Stephen Poole, Oak Ridge National Laboratory
Roger MacNicol, Oracle Corp.
Akshay Shah, Oracle Corp.
Ashish Batwara, Samsung Semiconductor Inc.
Bruce Moxon, Samsung Strategy and Innovation Center
Yang Seok Ki, Samsung Electronics
Kevin Gomez, Seagate Technology
Martin Furuhjelm, Seagate Technology
Petros Efstathopoulos, Symantec Corporation
Vish Janakiraman, Symantec Corporation
Jorge Guerra, VMware
Abhijit Paithankar, VMware
James Malina, Western Digital
Jie Yu, Western Digital
CONTACTS:
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PDL Administrative Manager
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