FLASH MEMORY SUMMIT 2017 Ana Klimovic (center), a PhD student at Stanford (Prof. Christos Kozyrakis’s group) will present an Invited Talk  “ReFlex: A System for Accessing Remote Flash Like Local Flash” on Wednesday August 9, 2017 at 3:20PM.  In the photo, Ana chats with Lance Evans (Cray) and Jim Pappas (Intel, seated) in the IAP Booth at the Flash Memory Summit last year.  

Greetings! Welcome to the IAP Newsletter with items from Q2 2017 as well as upcoming in Q3 and Q4. 

Here is what is happening...
 

FLASH MEMORY SUMMIT, August 7-10, 2017

The IAP will host a booth for student posters at the Flash Memory Summit, August 7-10, in the Santa Clara Convention Center.  Full-time students may register here for free access using the priority code EDULOC17.  Visit us in Booth 638 near the Intel Partners Pavilion. We will also host the Academic Table at the Reception on Tuesday night from 7-8:30pm.  Please see the event site for more info. 

Flash Memory Summit Talks by CMU, ETH Zurich, and Stanford

• “Vulnerabilities in MLC NAND Flash Memory Programming: Experimental Analysis, Exploits, and Mitigation Techniques”, Yu Cai, Saugata Ghose, Yixin Luo, Ken Mai, Onur Mutlu, and Erich F. Haratsch 

• “Improving the Reliability of Chip-Off Forensic Analysis of NAND Flash Memory Devices”, Aya Fukami, Saugata Ghose, Yixin Luo, Yu Cai, and Onur Mutlu 

• “ReFlex: A System for Accessing Remote Flash Like Local Flash”, Ana Klimovic 

Flash Memory Summit Keynotes by IAP Industry Members

•  “Accelerating a Data-Centric Universe”, Martin Fink, Executive Vice President & Chief Technology Officer, Western Digital

•  “Advancements in SSDs and 3D NAND Reshaping Storage Market”, Jaeheon (Jae) Joeng, EVP, Solution Product R&D, Samsung Semiconductor

•  “Transforming Storage with Innovations in Non-Volatile Memory”, Bill Leszinske, VP of NVM Solutions Group (NSG), Intel

IAP WORKSHOPS

   University of Texas Cloud Workshop, November 10,  2017

• The UT Cloud Workshop is being co-organized by Prof. Derek Chiou in ECE and Prof. Simon Peter in CS for Friday November 10 on the UT campus.  Expect a full day of talks and posters from professors, students and experts in industry. 
  

   

RECENT PAPERS and UPCOMING EVENTS 

26th international Conference on Parallel Architectures and Compilation Techniques (PACT-26), Portland, Oregon, September 9-13, 2017 

• Maleen Abeydeera, Suvinay Subramanian, Mark C. Jeffrey, Joel Emer, Daniel Sanchez, “SAM: Optimizing Multithreaded Cores for Speculative Parallelism” 

• Po-An Tsai, Nathan Beckmann, Daniel Sanchez “Nexus: A New Approach to Replication in Distributed Shared Caches”

USENIX Annual Technical Conference, Santa Clara, CA, July 2017

• Stuart Byma, Sam Whitlock, Laura Flueratoru, Ethan Tseng, Christos Kozyrakis, Edouard Bugnion, James Larus "Persona: A High-Performance Bioinformatics Framework"     

  

• Asaf Cidon, Daniel Rushton, Stephen M. Rumble, Ryan Stutsman “Memshare: a Dynamic Multi-tenant Key-value Cache”

• Omid Mashayekhi, Hang Qu, Chinmayee Shah, and Philip Levis, “Execution Templates: Caching Control Plane Decisions for Strong Scaling of Data Analytics”

29th ACM Symposium on Parallelism in Algorithms and Architectures, Washington DC, July 2017 DC, July 2017

• Zhiyu Liu, Irina Calciu, Maurice Herlihy, and Onur Mutlu, "Concurrent Data Structures for Near-Memory Computing"

44th International Symposium on Computer Architecture (ISCA), Toronto, June 2017

• Raghu Prabhakar, Yaqi Zhang, David Koeplinger, Matt Feldman, Tian Zhao, Stefan Hadjis, Ardavan Pedram, Christos Kozyrakis, Kunle Olukotun “Plasticine: A Reconfigurable Architecture For Parallel Patterns"

• Minesh Patel, Jeremie S. Kim, and Onur Mutlu,
  "The Reach Profiler (REAPER): Enabling the Mitigation of DRAM Retention Failures via Profiling at Aggressive Conditions"

16th Workshop on Hot Topics in Operating Systems (HotOS-XVI), Vancouver, Canada, May 2017

• Reto Achermann, Chris Dalton, Paolo Faraboschi, Moritz Hoffmann, Dejan Milojicic, Geoffrey Ndu, Alexander Richardson, Timothy Roscoe, Adrian L. Shaw, Robert N. M. Watson, “Separating Translation from Protection in Address Spaces with Dynamic Remapping”

• Martin Maas, Krste Asanović, and John Kubiatowicz, "Return of the Runtimes: Rethinking the Language Runtime System for the Cloud 3.0 Era"

SIGMOD 2017, Chicago, May 2017

• Todd Warszawski, Peter Bailis, “ACIDRain: Concurrency-Related Attacks on Database-Backed Web Applications”

• Brandon Haynes, Artem Minyaylov, Magdalena Balazinska, Luis Ceze, Alvin Cheung, “VisualCloud Demonstration: A DBMS for Virtual Reality”

• Dana Van Aken, Andrew Pavlo, Geoffrey J. Gordon, Bohan Zhang, “Automatic Database Management System Tuning Through Large-scale Machine Learning”

• Lianghong Xu, Andrew Pavlo, Sudipta Sengupta, Gregory R. Ganger, “Online Deduplication for Databases”

  RECENT BLOG POSTS

• Dave Patterson, Aspire Lab Blog, “How Close is RISC-V to RISC-I?” - June 19, 2017 

 

• Ken Birman, Cornell, "How Far Could a Secure Internet Get Us?” - July15, 2017 

  BEST PAPER AWARDS

• Scott Beamer, Krste Asanović, and David Patterson, "Reducing Pagerank Communication via Propagation Blocking", 31st IEEE International Parallel and Distributed Processing Symposium (IPDPS-2017), Orlando, FL, May 2017.
  (Best Paper - Algorithms Track)

• Bichen Wu, Forrest Iandola, Peter H. Jin, and Kurt Keutzer, “SqueezeDet: Unified, Small, Low Power Fully Convolutional Neural Networks for Real-Time Object Detection for Autonomous Driving”. Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (CVPR), July 2017.