Spring 2011

Moderator: Layali Rashid

• January 12
  • Open vs. Closed: A Cautionary Tale.
    • B. Schroeder, A. Wierman and M. Harchol-Balter
    • NSDI 2006
• January 19
  • Debojit Dhar — MASc Presentation (dry run)
    • On Energy-Efficient Data Gathering in Sensor Networks.
  • Chain Replication for Supporting High Throughput and Availability.
    • R. van Renesse and F.B. Schneider
    • OSDI 2004
• January 26
  • The Utility Coprocessor: Massively Parallel Computation from the Coffee Shop.
    • J.R. Douceur, J. Elson, J. Howell and J.R. Lorch
    • USENIX ATC 2010
• February 2
  • Pregel: a System for Large-Scale Graph processing.
    • G. Malewicz, M.H. Austern, A.J. C. Bik, J.C. Dehnert, I. Horn, N. Leiser and G. Czajkowski
    • PODC 2009
• February 9
  • Producing Wrong DataWithout Doing Anything Obviously Wrong!
    • T. Mytkowicz, A. Diwan, M. Hauswirth and P.F. Sweeney
    • ASPLOS 2009
• February 16
  • Reading Week Break
• February 23
  • Crowdsourcing Service-Level Network Event Monitoring.
    • D.R. Choffnes, F.E. Bustamante and Z. Ge
    • SIGCOMM 2010
• March 2
  • BotGraph: Large Scale Spamming Botnet Detection.
    • Y. Zhao, Y. Xie, F. Yu, Q. Ke, Y. Yu, Y. Chen and E. Gillum
    • NSDI 2009
• March 9
  • The Anatomy of a Large Scale Social Search Engine.
    • D. Horowitz and S.D. Kamvar
    • WWW 2010
• March 16
  • Improving Software Diagnosability via Log Enhancement.
    • D. Yuan, J. Zheng, S. Park, Y. Zhou and S. Savage
    • ASPLOS 2011
• March 23
  • Piccolo: Building Fast, Distributed Programs with Partitioned Tables.
    • R. Power and J. Li
    • OSDI 2010
• March 30
  • CHARM++: a Portable Concurrent Object Oriented System Based on C++.
    • L. V. Kale and S. Krishnan
    • OOPSLA 1993
• April 6
  • End-to-end arguments in system design.
    • TOCS 1984
  • Rethinking the design of the Internet: the end-to-end arguments vs. the brave new world.
    • TOIT 2001
  • Maliha will lead the discussion.
• April 13
  • Break
• April 20
  • Operating System Interfaces: Bridging the Gap Between CPU and FPGA Accelerators.
    • International Symposium on FPGAs, 2007
  • Theepan will lead the discussion.
• April 27
  • Abdullah Gharaibeh — PhD Candidacy Exam (dry run)
  • The Little Engine(s) That Could: Scaling Online Social Networks.
    • SIGCOMM 2010
  • Lauro will lead the discussion.
• May 4
  • Complete System Power Estimation using Processor Performance Events.
    • IEEE Transactions on Computers, 2011
  • Looking Back on the Language and Hardware Revolutions:Measured Power, Performance, and Scaling.
    • ASPLOS 2011
  • Emalayan will lead the discussion.