Dates: Thursday 4/27 and Friday 4/28 in Madison, WI.
For industrial visitors: please register for the meeting soon! Thank you.
Recommended Hotels: Union South, Hotel RED, DoubleTree by Hilton
Location: Note that meeting shifts between WID and Computer Sciences building (1240).
Breakfast (8:30am-9:30am in WID in the Open Court)
General Session: Posters and Welcome (10am-12noon in WID in the Open Court)
Lunch (12noon-1:15pm in WID in Steenbock's private dining room)
Keynote (1:30pm-2:00pm in 1240 CS)
Rethinking Big Data Analytics Systems, Aditya Akella.
1. Cluster-wide Technologies (2:00pm-3:00pm in 1240 CS, Session chair: Harshad Deshmukh)
Recent Advances in Cluster Scheduling, Robert Grandl.
Fault Analysis of Scalable Distributed Storage, Aishwarya Ganesan.
Rethinking Consensus with Local Storage in Mind, Ram Alagappan.
Break
2. Containerization and Isolation (3:40-4:20 in 1240 CS, Session chair: Sudarsun Kannan)
Fast and Flexible Containerization with Pipsqueak, Ed Oakes.
Isolation in Distributed Storage Systems, Suli Yang.
3. Intelligence: Techniques and Interfaces (4:20pm-5:00pm in 1240 CS, Session chair: Robert Grandl)
Separating the Hog from the Wild: Implementation of SGD, Navneet Potti and Marc Spehlmann.
Ava: From Data to Insights Via Conversation, Rogers Jeffrey Leo John.
Keynote (5:00pm in 1240 CS)
Quickstep: Towards Converged Analytics on Modern and Future Hardware, Jignesh Patel.
Dinner (6:00pm in WID in Steenbock's private dining room)
4. Thinking and Planning (8:30am-9:30am in 1240 CS, Session chair: Jing Liu)
LIP: Looking Ahead Makes Query Plans Robust, Jianqiao Zhu.
Replanning Queries under Dynamics, Kshiteej Mahajan.
Adaptive Query Scheduling for an Analytic In-Memory Data System, Harshad Deshmukh.
5. Doing Things Fast (9:30am-10:30am in 1240 CS, Session chair: Soudeh Ghorbani)
The Unwritten Contract of Modern SSDs, Jun He and Sudarsun Kannan.
Networking Abstractions for Modern Multi-queue NICs, Brent Stephens.
RDMA for Generic Unconverged Ethernet, Yanfang Le.
Break
6. Doing Things Well (11am-12:20pm in 1240 CS, Session chair: Brent Stephens)
Network Synthesis for Multi-tenant Data Centers, Kausik Subramanian.
Correct Network Virtualization, Soudeh Ghorbani.
An Analysis of Persistent Memory Use with WHISPER, Swapnil Haria.
Challenges and Opportunities in Virtualized Datacenters, Keqiang He.
Wrapup (12:20pm in 1240 CS)
Final Thoughts: Towards Cloud 3.0, Remzi Arpaci-Dusseau.
Lunch (on your own)
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