Professor Derek Chiou, University of Texas, Austin ECE, and Microsoft Partner Architect, kicks off the
IAP
University of Texas
Workshop on the Future of Cloud Computing
on Friday November 10, 2017 on the UT Austin
campus in the Gates Dell Complex.
Greetings! Welcome to the IAP Newsletter with items from 2H 2017 as well as upcoming in 1H 2018.
Here is what is happening...
IAP WORKSHOPS
MIT Cloud Workshop, April 20, 2018
The
MIT Cloud Workshop
is being co-organized by Prof. Daniel Sanchez in CSAIL and the IAP for Friday April 20 on the MIT campus. Expect a full day of talks and posters from professors, students and experts in industry.
University of Texas Cloud Workshop, November 10, 2017
The
UT Cloud Workshop was held on Friday November 10, 2017 on the UT campus. There were several technical presentations during the day by professors, students and industry scientists and engineers.
Companies on the agenda included
AWARENAAS, CAVIUM, FACEBOOK, INTEL, MICROSOFT, and WESTERN DIGITAL. Cornell University
and the
Texas Advanced Computing Center
were also represented.
Several research posters were presented by grad students from UT.
- Vijay Chidambaram, UT, “PebblesDB: Building Key-Value Stores using Fragmented Log-Structured Merge Trees”
- Derek Chiou, UT and Microsoft, “Soft Logic in a Data Center”
- Mattan Erez, UT, “Quality of Service Techniques for Mixed-Latency Workloads”
- Cyril Guyot, Western Digital, “Low-latency software architecture for distributed shared memory”
- Lizy Kurian John, UT, “Computing In-Situ and In-Transit”
- Rick Kessler, Cavium, “ThunderX2 in HPC”
- Pankaj Mehra, AwarenasS, “Data-Centric Computer Architecture”
- Simon Peter, UT, “Cross Media File Storage with Strata”
- Srinath Setty, Microsoft, “VOLT project: Trustworthy distributed ledgers by leveraging an untrusted service provider”
- Rishi Sinha, Facebook, “Networking at Facebook Through the Layers”
- Kumaran Siva, Intel, “FPGA-Ready Cloud Workloads”
- Dan Stanzione, Texas Advanced Computing Center, “HPC vs. The Cloud -- In the End There Can Be Only One?”
- Hakim Weatherspoon, Cornell, "SuperCloud: Opportunities and Challenges”
- Emmett Witchel, UT, “Securing Untrusted Computation on Secret Data”
Workshop Organizers include Professor Derek Chiou, Professor Simon Peter, and Dr. Jim Ballingall, IAP Executive Director. Please see photos and additional info at the
event site.
RECENT PAPERS and UPCOMING EVENTS
15th
USENIX SYMPOSIUM ON NETWORKED SYSTEMS DESIGN AND IMPLEMENTATION (NDSI -18), APRIL 9-11, 2018, RENTON, WA
Approximating Fair Queueing on Reconfigurable Switches
Naveen Kr. Sharma and Ming Liu,
University of Washington;
Kishore Atreya,
Cavium;
Arvind Krishnamurthy,
University of Washington
Generalizing Critical Paths for Online Analysis of Distributed Dataflows
Moritz Hoffmann, Andrea Lattuada, John Liagouris, Vasiliki Kalavri, Desislava Dimitrova, Sebastian Wicki, Zaheer Chothia, and Timothy Roscoe,
ETH Zurich
Virtual Disk Failure Diagnosis and Pattern Detection for the IaaS Service
Qiao Zhang,
University of Washington;
Guo Yu,
Cornell University;
Chuanxiong Guo,
Microsoft Research;
Yingnong Dang, Nick Swanson, Xinsheng Yang, Randolph Yao, and Murali Chintalapati,
Microsoft Azure;
Arvind Krishnamurthy and Thomas Anderson,
University of Washington
ResQ: Enabling SLOs in Network Function Virtualization
Amin Tootoonchian,
Intel Labs;
Aurojit Panda,
Nefeli, ICSI;
Chang Lan,
UC Berkeley;
Melvin Walls,
Nefeli;
Katerina Argyraki,
EPFL;
Sylvia Ratnasamy,
UC Berkeley;
Scott Shenker,
UC Berkeley, ICSI
Elastic Scaling of Stateful Network Functions
Shinae Woo,
UC Berkeley;
Justine Sherry,
CMU;
Sangjin Han,
UC Berkeley;
Sue Moon,
KAIST;
Sylvia Ratnasamy,
UC Berkeley;
Scott Shenker,
UC Berkeley, ICSI
Efficient and Correct Test Scheduling for Ensembles of Stateful Network Policies
Yifei Yuan, Sanjay Chandrasekaran, Limin Jia, and Vyas Sekar,
Carnegie Mellon University
Andromeda: Performance, Isolation, and Velocity at Scale in Cloud Network Virtualization
Michael Dalton, David Schultz, Jacob Adriaens, Ahsan Arefin, Anshuman Gupta, Brian Fahs, Dima Rubinstein, Enrique Cauich Zermeno, Erik Rubow, James Alexander Docauer, Jesse Alpert, Jing Ai, Jon Olson, Kevin DeCabooter, Marc de Kruijf, Nan Hua, Nathan Lewis, Nikhil Kasinadhuni, Riccardo Crepaldi, Srinivas Krishnan, Subbaiah Venkata, Yossi Richter, Uday Naik, and Amin Vahdat,
Google, Inc
NetChain: Scale-Free Sub-RTT Coordination
Xin Jin,
Johns Hopkins University;
Xiaozhou Li,
Barefoot Networks;
Haoyu Zhang,
Princeton University;
Nate Foster,
Cornell University;
Jeongkeun Lee,
Barefoot Networks;
Robert Soulé,
Università della Svizzera italiana;
Changhoon Kim,
Barefoot Networks;
Ion Stoica,
UC Berkeley
Semi-Oblivious Traffic Engineering: The Road Not Taken
Praveen Kumar and Yang Yuan,
Cornell University;
Chris Yu,
Carnegie Mellon University;
Nate Foster and Robert Kleinberg,
Cornell University;
Petr Lapukhov and Chiun Lin Lim,
Facebook;
Robert Soulé,
Università della Svizzera italiana
The DRAM Latency PUF: Quickly Evaluating Physical Unclonable Functions by Exploiting the Latency-Reliability Tradeoff in Modern DRAM Devices
, Jeremie S. Kim, Minesh Patel, Hasan Hassan, and Onur Mutlu
HeatWatch: Improving 3D NAND Flash Memory Device Reliability by Exploiting Self-Recovery and Temperature-Awareness
, Yixin Luo, Saugata Ghose, Yu Cai, Erich F. Haratsch, and Onur Mutlu
THE CONFERENCE ON NEURAL INFORMATION PROCESSING SYSTEMS (
NIPS 2017), DECEMBER 4 - 9, LONG BEACH
HOTNETS 2017: SIXTEENTH ACM WORKSHOP ON HOT TOPICS IN NETWORKS, NOVEMBER 30 - DECEMBER 1, PALO ALTO
Mihovil Bartulović (CMU), Junchen Jiang (MSR/CMU), Vyas Sekar (CMU), Bruno Sinopoli (CMU)
Amedeo Sapio (KAUST), Ibrahim Abdelaziz (KAUST), Abdulla Dilaijan (KAUST), Marco Canini (KAUST), Panos Kalnis (KAUST)
Doron Zarchy (Hebrew University Of Jeruslem), Radhika Mittal (UC Berkeley), Michael Schapira (Hebrew University Of Jeruslem), Scott Shenker (UC Berkeley)
7th
RISC-V WORKSHOP, NOVEMBER 28-30, HOSTED BY WESTERN DIGITAL IN SI VALLEY
INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE FOR HIGH PERFORMANCE COMPUTING, NETWORKING, STORAGE AND ANALYSIS (SC-17), NOVEMBER 12-17, DENVER
THE 26TH ACM SYMPOSIUM ON OPERATING SYSTEMS PRINCIPLES, OCTOBER 28-31, SHANGHAI
Drizzle: Fast and Adaptable Stream Processing at Scale
, Shivaram Venkataraman, Aurojit Panda, Kay Ousterhout (UC Berkeley); Ali Ghodsi (UC Berkeley / Databricks); Michael Armbrust (Databricks); Benjamin Recht (UC Berkeley); Michael J. Franklin (UC Berkeley / University of Chicago); Ion Stoica (UC Berkeley)
SVE: Distributed Video Processing at Facebook Scale, Qi Huang, Petchean Ang, Peter Knowles, Tomasz Nykiel, Iaroslav Tverdokhlib, Amit Yajurvedi, Paul Dapolito IV, Xifan Yan, Maxim Bykov, Chuen Liang, Mohit Talwar, Abhishek Mathur, Sachin Kulkarni (Facebook); Matthew Burke (University of Southern California; Facebook; Cornell); Wyatt Lloyd
THE 50th
ANNUAL IEEE/ACM INTERNATIONAL SYMPOSIUM ON MICROARCHITECTURE (MICRO 50), OCT 14 - 18, BOSTON
Keynote: Specialization and Accelerated AI at Hyperscale
, Doug Burger, Microsoft Research
Ambit: In-Memory Accelerator for Bulk Bitwise Operations Using Commodity DRAM Technology
, Vivek Seshadri, Donghyuk Lee, Thomas Mullins, Hasan Hassan, Amirali Boroumand, Jeremie Kim, Michael A. Kozuch, Onur Mutlu, Phillip B. Gibbons, and Todd C. Mowry
ACM SYMPOSIUM ON CLOUD COMPUTING (SOCC-2017),
SEPT 25-27, SANTA CLARA
SIGCOMM 2017, AUGUST 21-25, LOS ANGELES
BLOGS
Prof. Ken Birman runs an especially
active and wide ranging blog on cloud computing topics, with 36 essays posted in 2017. His January 2018 posts are about blockchains, and December 2017 posts are on Fog Computing - all highly recommended.
AWARDS and PROMOTIONS
December 6, 2017
October 12, 2017
NEWS ITEMS
February 1, 2018
January 24, 2018
December 15, 2017
November 28, 2017
November 22, 2017
Perspective: What Really Happened at SC17?
“Intel’s Skylake and its successors remain a strong option, GPUs (especially Nvidia) offer distinct advantages in some cases, while IBM’s Power9 and AMD’s EPYC are ready alternatives actively being considered by HPC buyers now. But it was the ARM family – notably Qualcomm and Cavium – that stole the show in terms of mindshare.” - Andrew Jones
November 21, 2017
November 13, 2017
October 22, 2017
October 16, 2017
Please feel free to contact us for more info on these items.
Best,
Jim Ballingall
Executive Director
Industry-Academia Partnership (IAP)
cel: 408-212-1035
