20th Annual Workshop & Retreat
November 5 - 7, 2012

INFO & Agenda

We are pleased to welcome our PDL Consortium Member Companies
to the 20th Annual Parallel Data Lab Workshop and Retreat.


GENERAL INFORMATION

• RETREAT AGENDA
  
  
OUR NEWSLETTER

• 2012 PDL Fall Update (pdf)
• 2012 PDL PACKET (pdf)

2012 RETREAT RESOURCES
(Industry attendees, contact your Liaison for the username/password or for more information)

Retreat Agenda

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Monday, November 5: CMU/Bedford Springs Resort

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8:30 am - 9:00 am	Registration & Continental Breakfast -- SINGLETON ROOM, ROBERTS HALL
9:00 am - 9:30 am	Welcome -- SINGLETON ROOM Greg Ganger: Parallel Data Lab Retreat Welcome & Overview
9:30 am - 10:30 am	Speaker -- SINGLETON ROOM Dave Andersen: Lessons from the FAWN Project
10:30 am - 11:30 am	Industry Poster Session -- ROBERTS HALL ATRIUM
11:30 am - 1:45 pm	Bus Ride to Bedford Springs & Lunch -- FREW STREET
2:00 pm - 3:30 pm	Session I: Efficient Key-value Storage -- COLONNADE BALLROOM Jim Cipar - Exploiting Data Staleness for High-performance Machine Learning Lin Xiao - Scaling metadata in HDFS
3:30 pm - 3:45 pm	Break -- CONSTITUTION HALL
3:45 pm - 6:00 pm	Session II: File Storage and More -- COLONNADE BALLROOM Wolf Richter - γ-ray: Scalable Real-Time Extraction of File Updates from VMs Kai Ren - TableFS, and GIGA+TableFS Garth Gibson - SMR: Shingled File System Status Report Michelle Mazurek - Toward Usable Access Control for Personal Data Greg Ganger - Remembering PDL
6:00 pm - 7:30 pm	Dinner -- EISENHOWER BALLROOM
7:30 pm - 8:30 pm	Session III: Short Work-in-Progress Talks -- COLONNADE BALLROOM Soila Kavulya - Draco: Statistical Diagnosis of Chronic Problems in Large Distributed Systems Vivek Seshadri - Exporting Page Copy Operations to DRAM Jiaqi Tan - Understanding Systems to Diagnose and Prevent Problems Elie Krevat - Adaptive Resource Allocation In Shared Service Environments
8:30 pm - 10:30 pm	Reception/Poster Session I -- COLONNADE BALLROOM

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Tuesday, November 6: Bedford Springs Resort

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8:15 am - 9:00 am	Full Breakfast -- CRYSTAL DINING ROOM Continental Breakfast -- CONSTITUTION HALL
9:00 am - 10:30 am	Session IV: Performance Problem Diagnosis -- COLONNADE BALLROOM Mike Kasick - Black-Box Localization of Storage Problems in Parallel File Systems Raja Sambasivan - Visualizing Request-flow Comparison
10:30 am - 10:45 am	Break -- CONSTITUTION HALL
10:45 am - 12:15 pm	Session V: Better Use of Shared Clusters -- COLONNADE BALLROOM Lianghong Xu - JackRabbit: Improved Agility in Elastic Distributed Storage Alexey Tumanov - Scheduling of Mixed Workloads in Heterogeneous Clusters
12:15 pm - 1:30 pm	Lunch -- EISENHOWER BALLROOM
1:30 pm - 3:00 pm	Socializing and Chat-filled Walk -- HOTEL GROUNDS Wii games room available 1:00 pm to midnight -- REAGAN-B
3:00 pm - 4:30 pm	Session VI: Better Distribution of Work -- COLONNADE BALLROOM Bin Fan - MemC3: MemCache with CLOCK and Concurrent Cuckoo Hashing Iulian Moraru - Egalitarian Paxos
4:30 pm - 4:45 pm	Break -- CONSTITUTION HALL
4:45 pm - 6:00 pm	Session VII: Scaling and Sharing -- COLONNADE BALLROOM Chuck Cranor - The Expanding Scope of PLFS Onur Mutlu - Update On Hybrid Memories Garth Gibson - PRObE's KiloNode Community Resource
6:00 pm - 7:30 pm	Dinner -- EISENHOWER BALLROOM
7:30 pm - 8:30 pm	Session VIII: Short Work-In-Progress Talks -- COLONNADE BALLROOM Ilari Shafer - Towards Explaining Performance Changes in Virtualized Datacenters Peter Klemperer - Efficient Hypervisor Based Malware Detectors Kai Ren - Workload Analysis of OpenCloud Hadoop Cluster
8:30 pm - 10:00 pm	Reception/Poster Session II -- COLONNADE BALLROOM

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Wednesday, November 7: Bedford Springs Resort

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Morning	Workshop Talks
8:45am - 9:15am	Full Breakfast -- CRYSTAL DINING ROOM Continental Breakfast -- CONSTITUTION HALL
9:15am - 11:30am	Session VIII: Testing and Interference Avoidance -- COLONNADE BALLROOM Ben Blum - Landslide: Systematic Exploration for Kernel-Space Race Detection Jiri Simsa - Scalable Dynamic Partial Order Reduction Lavanya Subramanian - MISE: Providing Performance Predictability and Improving Fairness in Shared Main Memory Systems
Afternoon	Feedback, Departure
11:30am - 1:15pm	Lunch and Industry Feedback
1:30pm	Buses depart for Pittsburgh Airport & CMU (one in each direction)
4:00pm	Arrive at Airport
4:00pm	Arrive at CMU

2011 PDL Workshop Attendees

John Bent, EMC
Fred Douglis, EMC
Erik Riedel, EMC
Grant Wallace, EMC
Tom Ambrose, Emulex
Kannan Muthukkaruppan, Facebook
Mark Marchukov, Facebook
Afshin Daghi, Fusion io
Nisha Talagala, Fusion io
James Hendricks, Google
Arif Merchant, Google
John Wilkes, Google
Yuichi Taguchi, Hitachi America Ltd.
Yoshimasa Masuoka, Hitachi America, Ltd.
Masayuki Yamamoto, Hitachi, Ltd., Yokohama Research Laboratory
Kim Keeton, HP Labs
Craig Soules, HP Labs
Vanish Talwar, HP Labs
Frank Berry, Intel Corporation
Ted Willke, Intel Corporation
Michael Kozuch, Intel Corporation
Gary Grider, Los Alamos National Laboratory
Cody Scott, Los Alamos National Laboratory
Jon Currey, Microsoft Research
Marcos K. Aguilera, Microsoft Research
Nitin Agrawal, NEC Labs
Cristian Ungureanu, NEC Labs
Craig Everhart, NetApp
Jerry Fredin, NetApp
Jeff Heller, NetApp
Jiri Schindler, NetApp
Eric Sedlar, Oracle
Garret Swart, Oracle
Allen Nuttle, Panasas
Edward Gronke, Panasas
Nitin Parab, Riverbed Technology
Chinmaya Manjunath, Riverbed Technology
Arun Jagatheesan, Samsung
Yang Seok Ki, Samsung Information Systems America
Dave Anderson, Seagate Technology
Mike Miller, Seagate Technology
Reza Sadri, STEC
Scott Stetzer, STEC
Christos Karamanolis, VMware
Tudor Dumitraș, Symantec
Matthew Elder, Symantec Corporation

CONTACTS:

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VOICE: (412) 268-1297



Executive Director, Parallel Data Lab
VOICE: (412) 268-5485


PDL Administrative Manager
VOICE: (412) 268-6716