The Parallel Data Lab (PDL) Summer Talk Series is an engaging forum featuring presentations by PDL industry members from the lab's consortium, faculty, and students. Designed to share cutting-edge developments in storage systems, databases, machine learning systems, cloud computing, and other systems topics. PDL Summer Talks take place Thursdays at Noon ET over Zoom, throughout the summer months. The series serves as a valuable opportunity for the PDL community to exchange ideas on emerging challenges and innovations in data-intensive computing.
Registration is required to attend, except for PDL faculty and staff. You only need to register once to receive all future talk announcements and details for all summer. A new Zoom room will be used for each talk date, and Zoom links will be emailed to registered people a couple days in advance.
Please use this Secure Online Registration Form to register.
Slides and Videos for some talks are only available to Consortium members at the Talk Series Resources page.
| SPEAKER | TALK/ABSTRACT |
| THURSDAY, June 4, 2026 | |
| Ethan L. Miller, Everpure | Towards Archival Storage Using QLC Flash Video: Available to PDL Consortium Members |
| THURSDAY, June 11, 2026 | |
| Yiran Lei, Carnegie Mellon University | The Energy Cost of Execution-idle in GPU Clusters Video: Available to PDL Consortium Members |
| Dan Volz, Oracle | Database Observability Video: Available to PDL Consortium Members |
| Chunyan Du, Oracle | Network Observability Video: Available to PDL Consortium Members |
| THURSDAY, June 18, 2026 | |
| Vikramraj Sitpal & Shubham Kumar, Oracle |
Why We Created Yet Another Memory Framework: Understanding MGA’s Role in Next-Gen Database Systems Video: Available to PDL Consortium Members |
| Rajarshi Chowdhury, Oracle | Rethinking Database I/O: io_uring, Atomic Writes, and the Road Ahead Video: Available to PDL Consortium Members |
| THURSDAY, June 25, 2026 | |
| Hugo Sadok, Carnegie Mellon University | A General Device Communication Protocol Video: please inquire with the speaker |
| THURSDAY, July 2, 2026 | |
No speaker this week |
Enjoy the holiday! |
| THURSDAY, July 9, 2026 | |
| Gary Grider & Brian Atkinson, Los Alamos National Laboratory | The Grand Unified File Index (GUFI), a Global Metabase PNFS-Lattice D-Threads (and D-Mutex) Videos: TBA |
| THURSDAY, July 16, 2026 | |
Elaine Shi & Afonso Tinoco, Carnegie Mellon University |
Oblivious RAM: from theory to large-scale deployment |
| Vaibhav Arora, Salesforce | Salesforce Database: A Cloud-Native Multi-Tenant OLTP Database |
| THURSDAY, July 23, 2026 | |
Kim Keeton, Google |
Not Your Grandparents' Memory System |
| THURSDAY, July 30, 2026 | |
Aaron Ogus, Microsoft |
Reliably Storing Zettabytes of Data: Moore's law meets Murhpy's law |
| Davis Haupt, Jane Street | TBA |
| THURSDAY, August 6, 2026 | |
Stephen Mell, Canegie Mellon University |
Opportunistic Evaluation for Compound AI Systems |
| THURSDAY, August 13, 2026 | |
Hans Holmberg, Western Digital |
Evolving XFS with Zoned Storage Support |
| THURSDAY, August 20, 2026 | |
Olivia Hsu, Carnegie Mellon University |
Programming Data-dependent Applications on Hardware Accelerators |
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