About the SDI Seminar Series

 

The Systems Design and Implementation (SDI) seminar series is an informal gathering of the SCS & ECE computer systems community. The range of talks is broad, covering the structure, implementation and performance of substantial systems. Typically, talks are on operating systems, distributed systems, networking, databases and language implementations, storage and ML/AI. Seminars 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, visit the above link and subscribe yourself, or send mail to Karen with "subscribe SDI-list" in the subject line. PLEASE USE A *.CMU.EDU address to subscribe.

Times, Locations & Contacts

**Please check individual listings for dates and times. Zoom links will be emailed to the SDI list prior to each seminar if necessary.**

SEMINAR LOCATIONS

Interested in speaking in 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 contact , (412-268-6716), to check the availability of your preferred date.

Info for Speakers

The seminar planners require that certain information be emailed to and 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, and a digital photo of the speaker.

FALL 2023 SEMINAR SCHEDULE

November
9 Fernando Ramos, University of Lisbon TBA
2 Shivaram Venkataraman, U. Wisconsin TBA
September
28 Anirudh Sivaraman, NYU Programmable Networks: Hardware, Software, and Applications
19 Martin Kleppmann, Technical University of Munich Viewing Collaborative Editing Through a Databases Lens
CANCELLED
7 Vincent Liu, University of Pennsylvania Networked Systems in the Age of Really Fast Networks


SUMMER 2023 SEMINAR SCHEDULE

August
24 Bibek Wagle, Senior Member Technical Staff, Oracle Designing for Consensus in Data Plane
17 Marcos K. Aguilera, Principal Researcher, VMware Memory Disaggregation: Why it will happen now and bring a surprise impact
10 Francisco Maturana, PhD Student, CMU Tuning Storage Codes to Heterogeneity: Theory and Practice
3 Sue K. Lee, Database Architect, Oracle and
Akshay Shah, Director of Development, Virtual OS, Oracle

Thomas Kim, Architect/Engineer, LayerZero Labs
Resource Management in Oracle Cloud Databases




Design Principles for Replicated Storage Systems Built on Emerging Storage Technologies
July
27 Dimitrios Skarlatos, CMU Contiguitas: The Pursuit of Physical Memory Contiguity in Datacenters
25 Manya Ghobadi, MIT Next-Generation Optical Networks for Machine Learning Workloads
Note special day - TUESDAY
20 Tirthankar Lahiri, Sr. Vice President, Data and In-Memory Technologies, Oracle
Beda Hammerschmidt, Senior Director, JSON Technologies, Oracle
Document Relational Duality: The Revolutionary Convergence of Documents, Objects, and Relational Data
13 Jignesh Patel, (Incoming) CSD at CMU, CEO @ DataChat Towards a Hardware-software Approach for High-performance Databases
June
29 Akshitha Sriraman, CMU Lifting the Systems Ostrich’s Head from the Sand: Introducing Ethical Systems
22 Daniel Berger, Microsoft Research Datacenter Sustainability Meets the Compute Express Link (CXL): A match made in heaven!
15 Pat Helland, Salesforce

Michael Kuchnik
, CMU
I'm SO Glad I'm Uncoordinated!

Optimizing Deep Learning Training and Validation Pipelines
8 Saurabh Kadekodi, Google Andy Pavlo, CMU Improving Data Reliability in Exascale Storage Clusters Why Machine Learning for Automatically Optimizing Databases Doesn't Work


FALL 2022 SEMINAR SCHEDULE


October
27 Sam Kumar, UC Berkeley MAGE: Nearly Zero-Cost Virtual Memory for Secure Computation
A zoom link will be sent to the SDI mailing list a day before this virtual talk.
13 Harsha Simhadri, Microsoft Research Vector Search Systems for Web-scale Search and Recommendation
A zoom link will be sent to the SDI mailing list a day before the in-person talk.
September
22 Luis D. Pedrosa, University of Lisbon Automated Reasoning about Networked Systems
1 Naercio Magaia, University of Lisbon Edge Learning for Dynamic Networks(slides)


SPRING 2022 SEMINAR SCHEDULE


May
4 PDL CONSORTIUM SPEAKER SERIES SPECIAL AFTERNOON OF SEMINARS BY INDUSTRY LEADERS

Cross Cluster Replication in OpenSearch
Kiran Reddy, Principal Engineer, Amazon Web Services

Building a Next-generation Serverless Platform for Converged AI/ML and HPC Workflows
Carlos H. A. Costa, Principal Research Staff Member, IBM

Reinventing Amazon Redshift
Sanket Hase, Software Development Manager, Amazon Web Services

Oracle Large-Object Storage: Scaling for OLTP
Fan Wu, Software Development Manager, Oracle

Data-Centric Computing with Emerging Memory and Storage Devices
Rekha Pitchumani, Sr. Research Manager, Samsung

Real World Challenges in the Oracle Database Cloud
Vikramraj Sitpal, Senior Member of Technical Staff, Oracle

April
28 Wenjun Hu, Yale Edge Infrastructure Support for Diverse IoT Scenarios
March
9 Keith Winstein, Stanford University What We Talk About When We Talk About Networking
February
24 Benjamin Titzer, ISR, CMU WebAssembly as the Basis For Next-Generation Language Runtime Systems (slides)


FALL 2021 SEMINAR SCHEDULE


November
30 Justin Levandoski, Google BigQuery Special Joint SDI/DB Seminar
An Overview of Google BigQuery
September
30 Pekka Enberg, University of Helsinki Parakernel Operating System: How to Eliminate (Some) Operating System Abstractions to Unlock Fast I/O Devices for Applications
2 PDL TALK SERIES
Lin Ma, Post Doctoral Researcher, CMU

Self-Driving Database Management Systems: Forecasting, Modeling, And Planning


SUMMER 2021 SEMINAR SCHEDULE


August
26 PDL TALK SERIES
Phil Gibbons, Professor, CMU and
Mohammad Bakhshalipour, Ph.D. Candidate, CMU

Processing-in-Memory: Theory and Practice

Algorithm/Hardware Co-design for Mobile Robot Path Planning

19 PDL TALK SERIES
Aurick Qiao, Head of Engineering, Petuum Inc.

Pollux: Co-adaptive Cluster Scheduling for Goodput-Optimized Deep Learning
12 PDL TALK SERIES
Rashmi Vinayak, Assistant Professor, CMU

Efficient, Performant, and Resilient Data Systems: Storage, Caching, and ML systems
5 PDL TALK SERIES
Charles McGuffey, Assistant Professor, Reed College

Modernizing Models and Management of the Memory Hierarchy for Non-Volatile Memory
July
29 PDL TALK SERIES
Daming (Dominic) Chen, CMU Alumni (PhD, 2021)

Mitigating Memory-Safety Bugs with Efficient Out-of-Process Integrity Checking
22 PDL TALK SERIES
Prashanth Menon, Senior Software Engineer, Databricks

On Building Robustness into Compilation-Based Main-Memory Database Query Engines
8 PDL TALK SERIES
Qing Zheng, Scientist, Los Alamos National Lab

From NASD to DeltaFS: CMU and Los Alamos's Effort in Building Large-Scale Distributed Filesystem Metadata
1 PDL TALK SERIES
Saurabh Kadekodi, Researcher, Google

DISK-ADAPTIVE REDUNDANCY: Tailoring Data Redundancy to Disk-reliability-heterogeneity in Cluster Storage Systems


SPRING 2021 SEMINAR SCHEDULE


June
17 PDL TALK SERIES
Pat Helland
, Principal Architect, Salesforce

Autonomous Computing: Working across Trust Boundaries
10 PDL TALK SERIES
Nathan Beckmann, CMU

Making Data Access Faster and Cheaper via Ubiquitous Flash Caching
3 PDL TALK SERIES
Andy Pavlo, Assoc. Professor, CMU

George Amvrosiadis
, Assistant Research Professor, CMU

OtterTune: An Automatic Database Configuration Tuning Service


Getting Zoned Storage out of the Friend Zone
A zoom link will be emailed to registered participants closer to the seminar
March
11 Vijay Chidambaram,
Univ. Texas
Building Storage Systems for New Applications and New Hardware
A zoom link will be sent to the SDI list closer to the seminar


SUMMER 2020 SEMINAR SCHEDULE


June
23-24 PDL CONSORTIUM SPEAKER SERIES

SPECIAL AFTERNOON OF SEMINARS BY INDUSTRY LEADERS

Big Memory through Virtual Cluster Memory
Marcos K. Aguilera, Senior Staff Researcher, VMware

Experience using RDMA in Oracle Database
Namrata Jampani, Principal Member of Technical Staff, Oracle

Workload-optimized SSDs
Pankaj Mehra, VP of Product Planning, Samsung Electronics

Adapting Technology Development for the IT4.0 Datashpere
Paul Kusbel, Senior Director, Seagate Research Group

Operationalising ML is Mostly a Systems Problem
Eno Thereska, Principal Engineer, Amazon

Improving Hypervisor Security
Carlo Bertolli, Research Staff Member and Manager, IBM

Zoned Namespaces: Take Control of Your Data
Matias Bjørling, Director, Emerging System Architectures, Western Digital

Metastable Failure States in Distributed Systems
Nathan Bronson, Software Engineer, Facebook

Advancements in Integrating Application Caves
Garret Swart, Oracle

Mind Your State for Your State of Mind
Pat Helland, Principal Architect, Salesforce


SPRING 2020 SEMINAR SCHEDULE


January
16 Maja Vuković,
IBM Research
AI for Application Modernization


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