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Fall 2010
Summer 2010
(tentative schedule: Thursdays, 1pm, KAIS3018 )
| Date | Topic / Paper |
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| 4/August | Modeling Critical Sections in Amdahl’s Law and its Implications for Multicore Design (ISCA’10) link |
| 29/July | Parallel Short Sequence Mapping for High Throughput Genome Sequencing (IPDPS’09) linkExploring Parallelism in Short Sequence Mapping Using Burrows-Wheeler Transform (HiCOMB ’10) link |
| 22/July | A Foundation for the Accurate Prediction of the Soft Error Vulnerability of Scientific Applications (SELSE’09 linkAssessing Fault Sensitivity in MPI Applications (SC’04) link Additional Reading:
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| 15/July | An adaptive performance modeling tool for GPU architectures (PPoPP’10) link |
| 8/July | USENIX workshop on Hot Topics in Parallelism (HotPar ’10) link |
| 29/June | Debunking the 100X GPU vs. CPU myth: an evaluation of throughput computing on CPU and GPU (ISCA’10) linkOn the Limits of GPU Acceleration (HotPar’10) linkBelieve it or Not: Multi-core CPUs Can Match GPU Performance for FLOP-intensive Application! link |
| 17/June | DEBAR: A Scalable High-Performance De-duplication Storage System for Backup and Archiving (IPDPS’10) |
| 15/June | Dynamic Load Balancing on Single- and Multi-GPU Systems (IPDPS’10) |
| 11/June at 11:00am | Talk title: Fog ComputingSpeaker: Miranda Mowbray, HP LabsLocation: KAIS 4018 |
| 10/June at 2:00pm | Talk title: Twitter CyborgsSpeaker: Miranda Mowbray, HP LabsLocation: KAIS 3028 |
| 10/June | Wide-area Network Acceleration for the Developing World, Sunghwan Ihm, KyoungSoo Park, and Vivek S. Pai, USENIX ’10 pdf |
| 3/June | Optimistic Parallelism Requires Abstractions, Milind Kulkarni, Keshav Pingali, Bruce Walter, Ganesh Ramanarayanan, Kavita Bala, L. Paul Chew, PLDI’07 pdf |
| 1/June | I/O Deduplication: Utilizing Content Similarity to Improve I/O Performance, Ricardo Koller, Raju Rangaswami, FAST’10 pdf |
| 27/May | Merge: a programming model for heterogeneous multi-core systems |
| 20/May | Total Recall: System Support for Automated Availability Management) |
| 13/May | A View of the Parallel Computing Landscape (Communications of the ACM pdf) |
| 7/May | Systems and Security Workshop link |
Winter 2010
(Thurdays, 6pm, KAIS3028 )
| Date | Topic / Paper |
|---|---|
| 22/Apr | Exploiting Redundancy to Conserve Energy in Storage Systems (SIGMETRICS’06 pdf) AND Making Cluster Applications Energy-Aware (ACDC’10, pdf) |
| 15/Apr | Software Challenges in Extreme Scale Systems, V. Sarkar, W. Harrod, A. Snavely, SciDAC’09. pdf. Links: slides exascale.org |
| 8/Apr | Towards a Framework for Abstracting Accelerators in Parallel Applications: Experience with Cell (SC’09 pdf) |
| 1/Apr | Sybil-Resilient Online Content Voting. N. Tran, B. Min, J. Li, L. Subramanian. NSDI’2009. pdf html |
| 25/Mar | quFiles: The right file at the right time (FAST’10, pdf) (Samer) |
| 11/Mar | HPDC reviews (Matei) |
| 9/Mar | Papers from SustainIT’10 |
| 11/Feb | TBA (Abdullah) |
| 9/Feb | Characterizing and Exploiting Peer Production of Information in Tagging Systems (Elizeu) (note different weekday, 6pm, KAIS4018) |
| 4/Febr | PowerNap: Eliminating Server Idle Power link |
| 28/Jan | A Friend in Need is a Friend Indeed: Exploiting Relationship Trust in Online Social Networks (Yazan) |
| 21/Jan | Cross-Layer Optimizations through file’s metadata annotations (Thiago Emmanuel Pereira da Cunha Silva) |
Autumn 2009
(Wednesdays, 2pm KAIS 4018 or Fridays, 11:00am KAIS4018)
| Date | Topic / Paper |
|---|---|
| 12/18 | Genome assembly: computational challenges (Abdullah) |
| 12/04 | Resource overbooking and application profiling in shared hosting platforms and Resource overbooking and application profiling in a shared Internet hosting platform (Lauro) |
| 11/30 | Characterizing and Exploiting Peer Production of Information in Tagging Systems (Elizeu) |
| 11/18 | Practice talk – qualifying exam (Samer) |
| 11/04 | Scheduling in large clusters (Lauro) |
| 10/28 | Papers from IMC’09 (Elizeu) |
| 10/21 | Abdullah & Samer SOSP trip report. Papers from LADIS workshop (Samer, Abdullah) |
| 10/16 | Gilles Fedak’s visit – BitDew |
| 10/7 | Papers from HotStorage2009 (Samer, Abdullah) |
| 10/6 | Smart Power Grids: What’s in it for you? (Yazan) |
| 09/23 | The Case for a Versatile Storage System pdf (Samer) |
| 09/11 | Development of an Advanced Configuration Algorithm for PCOM using Partial Application Configurations, Yazan Boshmaf, Master Thesis #2752, University of Stuttgart, 2008 (Yazan) |
Summer 2009
(Fridays, 11:30am KAIS4018)
| Date | Topic / Paper |
|---|---|
| 08/28 | Papers from HotPower2008 |
| 08/21 | Papers from SIGCOMM Workshop on Online Social Networks WSON2009 (Elizeu) |
| 08/14 | Papers from Hot Topics in Parallelism (HotPar2009) |
| 07/24 | The Rise of People-Centric Sensing (Mohammad)The Rise of People-Centric Sensing + iPhone |
| 07/17 | Evaluating GPUs for Network Packet Signature Matching (Abdullah)Randy Smith Neelam Goyal Justin Ormont Karthikeyan Sankaralingam Cristian Estan University of Wisconsin–Madison |
| 06/01 (Monday @ 4:00PM) | MCCA: A Communication Architecture for Online Multiplayer Games (Armin) |
| 05/29 | ThriStore (Abdullah)Exploring Data Reliability Tradeoffs in Replicated Storage Systems, Abdullah Gharaibeh, Matei Ripeanu, In the ACM/IEEE International Symposium on High Performance Distributed Computing (HPDC’09), Munich, Germany, June 2009. |
| 05/22 | Active Storage (Lauro)Active Storage for Large-Scale Data Mining and Multimedia. Erik Riedel, Garth A Gibson, Christos Faloutsos. VLDB (1998), pp. 62-73 MVSS: an active storage architecture. Xiaonan Ma; Reddy, A.L.N.; IEEE Transactions on Parallel and Distributed Systems; Volume 14, Issue 10, Oct. 2003 Page(s):993 – 1005Sivathanu, M., Arpaci-Dusseau, A. C., and Arpaci-Dusseau, R. H. 2002. Evolving RPC for active storage. In Proceedings of the 10th international Conference on Architectural Support For Programming Languages and Operating Systems |
| 05/15 | Individual and Social Behavior in Tagging Systems (Elizeu)Elizeu Santos-Neto, David Condon, Nazareno Adrade, Adriana Iamnitchi, Matei Ripeanu. In the 20th ACM Conference on Hypertext and Hypermedia, June 29 – July 01, 2009. |
| 05/08 | Versatile Storage System for Peta-Scale Computing (Samer) |
Autumn 2008
(Wednesdays, 4:30pm KAIS4018)
| Date | Topic / Paper |
|---|---|
| 11/26 | Discouraging Free-riding in a Peer-to-Peer Grid (Lauro)Nazareno Andrade, Francisco Brasileiro, Walfredo Cirne, Miranda Mowbray, the Thirteenth IEEE International Symposium on High-Performance Distributed Computing (HPDC). June 2004 |
| 11/19 | Transactional Flash (Maliha)Vijayan Prabhakaran, Thomas L. Rodeheffer, Lidong Zhou |
| 11/05 | Intelligent Storage: Cross-Layer Optimization for Soft Real-Time Workload (Samer)YOUJIP WON, HYUNGKYU CHANG, and JAEMIN RYU Hanyang University YONGDAI KIM Seoul National University and JUNSEOK SHIM Samsung Electronics |
| 10/22 | Virtual Battery: An Energy Reserve Abstraction for Embedded Sensor Networks (Debojit)Qing Cao, Debessay Fesehaye, Nam Pham, Yusuf Sarwar, and Tarek Abdelzaher |
| 15/8 | Configurable Security for Scavenged Storage Systems (Presentation by Abdullah)Abdullah Gharaibeh, Samer Al-Kiswany, Matei Ripeanu |
| 10/8 | Analysis of Long-Running Replicated Systems (Abdullah)Sriram Ramabhadran, Joseph Pasquale |
| 10/1 | NodeWiz: Peer-to-peer Resource Discovery for Grids (Lauro)Sujoy Basu, Sujata Banerjee, Puneet Sharma, Sung-Ju Lee A large scale fault-tolerant grid information service(optional)Francisco Brasileiro, Lauro Beltrao Costa, Alisson Andrade, Walfredo Cirne, Sujoy Basu, Sujata Banerjee |
| 09/24 | Donnybrook: Enabling Large-Scale, High-Speed, Peer-to-Peer Games (Armin)Ashwin Bharambe, John R. Douceur, Jacob R. Lorch, Thomas Moscibroda, Jeffrey Pang, Srinivasan Seshan, and Xinyu Zhuang |
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| 09/10 | Comparing the Performance of Web Server Architectures (Samer)David Pariag, Tim Brecht, Ashif Harji, Peter Buhr, and Amol Shukla, EuroSys 2007, Lisbon, Portugal, March, 2007. |
Summer 2008
(Mondays, 5:00pm KAIS4018)
| Date | Topic / Paper |
|---|---|
| 07/21 | User Reputation in Tagging Communities (Elizeu) |
| 07/14 | Reputation, trust and rich people in BitTorrent (Nazareno) |
| 07/07 | HPDC and USENIX review (Matei and Elizeu) |
| 06/30 | Visibility: A New Metric for Protocol Design (Mahmood) |
| 06/16 | Exploiting GPUs to accelerate Deep Packet Inspection (Abdullah) |
| 06/09 | Improving rewards in overloaded real-time systems
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| 06/02 | Enabling Cross-Layer Optimizations in Storage Systems with Custom Metadata (Elizeu)
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| 05/26 | Data consistency in DHTs (Ivan Beschastnikh)
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| 05/19 | No presentations (Victoria Day) |
| 05/12 | Reputation mechanisms and interaction patterns in peer-to-peer systems. (Nazareno)
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| 05/05 | Feasibility of packet classification and filtering on GPUs. (Abdullah)
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Past Seminars