14th Annual Workshop & Retreat
October 4 - 6, 2006
RESOURCE INDEX
Wednesday, October 4: CMU/Nemacolin
Woodlands
| Welcome |
| Greg Ganger - Welcome & PDL Overview |
Session I: Predictability and Utility
Eno Thereska - What-If Analysis in Ursa Minor
Matthew Wachs - Argon: Performance Insulation for Shared Storage Servers
John Strunk - Using Utility Functions to Control a Distributed Storage System
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Session II: Forecasting Problems and Fingerpointing
Jimeng Sun - InteMon: Continuous Mining of Sensor Data In Large-Scale
Self-*
Infrastructures
Mike Kasick - Toward Fingerpointing in the Emulab Dynamic Distributed System
Alice Zheng - Failure Diagnosis of Software and Systems
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Session III: Short Work-In-Progress Talks
Soila Pertet:Fingerpointing in Replicated Systems
Raja Sambasivan: Clustering Activity Trace Data for Performance Debugging
Michael Abd-El-Malek: Automatic Instrumentation for Request Tracing
Garth Gibson: Research in the Petascale Data Storage Institute (PDSI)
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Thursday, October 5: Nemacolin
Woodlands
Session IV: On Scaling
Bianca Schroeder - Failures in The Real World:
Collecting, Analyzing and Exploiting Failure Data from Real, Large Systems
Shafeeq Sinnamohideen - Eliminating Cross-Server Operations in Scalable File Systems
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Session V: Supporting Scientific Computations
Stratos Papadomanolakis - Efficient Query Processing on Unstructured Tetrahedral Meshes
Mike Mesnier - //TRACE: Parallel Trace Replay with Approximate Causal Events
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Session VI: Distributed Data Managament and Movement
Brandon Salmon - Putting Home Data Management into Perspective
David Andersen - Data-Oriented Transfer
Alina Oprea - Integrity Checking in Cryptographic File Systems with Constant Trusted Storage
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Session VII: More WIP Talks
Adam Pennington:Heterogeneous Intrusion Detection Fusion
James Hendricks: Secure Dynamic Membership
Andrew Klosterman: Storage Management in Object-based Storage Systems
Mike Mesnier: Modeling the Relative Fitness of Storage Devices |
Friday, October 6: Nemacolin
Woodlands
Session VIII: New Distributed Computing Approaches
Niraj Tolia - Dimorphic Computing
Joe Slember - Static Analysis Meets Distributed Fault-Tolerance: Enabling State-Machine Replication with Nondeterminism
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Session IX: Database Implementation Techniques
Nikos Hardavellas - Database Servers on Chip Multiprocessors: Limitations and Opportunities
Minglong Shao - Exploring Multidimensional Access in DBMS
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CONTACTS:
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PDL Administrative Manager
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