We are pleased to welcome our PDL Consortium Member Companies
to the 23rd Annual Parallel Data Lab Workshop and Retreat.
GENERAL INFORMATION
8:30 am - 9:00 am | Registration & Continental Breakfast |
9:00 am - 9:30 am | Welcome
Greg Ganger - Parallel Data Lab 2015 Retreat Welcome & Overview |
9:30 am - 10:30 am | Speaker
Kayvon Fatahalian - Large-scale Visual Computing |
10:30 am - 11:30 am | Industry Poster Session |
11:30 am - 1:45 pm | Bus Ride to Bedford Springs & Lunch |
2:00 pm - 3:30 pm | Session I: Testing and Dedup Ben Blum - Concurrency Testing with Data-Race Preemption Points Lianghong Xu - Similarity-based Deduplication for Distributed Document Databases |
3:30 pm - 3:45 pm | Break |
3:45 pm - 5:15 pm | Session II: Adapting and Specializing Storage Timmy Zhu - SNC-Meister: Admitting more workloads with tail latency SLOs Joy Arulraj - Let’s Talk About Storage & Recovery Methods for Non-Volatile Memory Database Systems |
5:15 pm - 6:00 pm | Special Presentation |
6:00 pm - 7:30 pm | Dinner |
7:30 pm - 8:30 pm | Session III: Short Work-in-Progress Talks Short talks on new research activities, pushing for visits to posters. Donghyuk Lee - Isolating CPU and IO Traffic with New DRAM Architectures Rajat Kateja - FTL designs for tail latency reduction Lin Ma - Multi-level anti-caching for NVM+SSD in H-Store |
8:30 pm - 10:30 pm | Reception/Poster Session I |
8:15 am - 9:00 am | Breakfast |
9:00 am - 10:30 am | Session IV: Cluster and FS Scheduling Alexey Tumanov - Aramid : Scheduling with Time-based Reservations in Heterogeneous Clusters Qing Zheng - DeltaFS: Scalable File System For Future Exascale Data Centers |
10:30 am - 10:45 am | Break -- CONSTITUTION HALL |
10:45 am - 12:15 pm | Session V: Adaptivitiy in ML Execution Jinliang Wei - Managed bandwidth for distributed ML computations Aaron Harlap - Addresing the Straggler Problem in Iterative Convergent Parallel ML |
12:15 pm - 1:30 pm | Lunch |
1:30 pm - 3:00 pm | Socializing and Chat-filled Walk |
3:00 pm - 4:30 pm | Session VI: Working with New Storage Technologies Phil Gibbons - Write-efficient Algorithms for Emerging Memory Technologies Yixin Luo -- Data Retention and Read Disturb in MLC NAND Flash Memory |
4:30 pm - 4:45 pm | Break |
4:45 pm - 6:15 pm | Session VII: Better Distributed Services Henggang Cui - Scalable Deep Learning on Distributed GPUs with a GPU-based Parameter Server Jin Kyu Kim - STRADS: A Distributed Framework for Scheduled Model-Parallel ML |
6:15 pm - 7:30 pm | Dinner |
7:30 pm - 8:30 pm | Session VIII: Short Work-In-Progress Talks Short talks on new research activities, pushing for visits to posters. Saurabh Kadekodi - Caveat-Scriptor: Write Anywhere Shingled Disks Angela Jiang - Job resource need prediction Huanchen Zhang - Reducing the Storage Overhead of Main-Memory OLTP Databases with Hybrid Indexes |
8:30 pm - 10:00 pm | Reception/Poster Session II |
Morning | Workshop Talks |
8:45am - 9:15am | Breakfast |
9:15am - 11:30am | Session IX: Scaling Metadata, Improving Memory BW Kai Ren - TBA Lin Xiao - ShardFS vs. IndexFS: Replication vs. Caching Strategies for Distributed Metadata Management in Cloud Storage Systems Gennady Pekhimenko - Exploiting Compressed Block Size as an Indicator of Future Reuse |
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 |
Chris Murphy, Actifio Christopher Provenzano, Actifio Ippokratis Pandis, Cloudera Akhil Gupta, Dropbox Stephen Ives, EMC Corporation Stephen Smaldone, EMC Daniel Peek, Facebook Michael Abd-El-Malek, Google Manisha Jain, Google Toby Smith, Google Kenta Shiga, Hitachi Ltd Hiroaki Shikano, Hitachi America, Ltd. Kim Keeton, HP Labs Adit Madan, HP Labs John Heffner, HP Vertica Cameron Bahar, Huawei Technology Guobin Zhang, Huawei Yuxin Zhang, Huawei Phil Gibbons, Intel / ISTC-CC Scott Hahn, Intel Corporation Michael Kaminsky, Intel / ISTC-CC Michael Kozuch, Intel Corporation Ran Kurup, Intel Corporation Todd Lisonbee, Intel |
Babu Pillai, Intel / ISTC-CC Carolyn Connor, Los Alamos National LaboratoryGary Grider, Los Alamos National Laboratory Reid Priedhorsky, Los Alamos National Laboratory Rich Draves, Microsoft Research Justin Levandoski, Microsoft Research Jay Lorch, Microsoft Research Nitin Agrawal, NEC Labs James Lentini, NetApp Joseph Moore, NetApp Jeff Prem, NetApp John Strunk, NetApp Sumanta Chatterjee, Oracle Tirthankar Lahiri, Oracle Stephen Choi, Samsung Semiconductor Inc. Dave Anderson, Seagate Technology Mike Miller, Seagate Technology Petros Efstathopoulos, Symantec Corporation Benixon Arul Dhas, Western Digital William Boyle, Western Digital Jie Yu, Western Digital Raffi Krikorian, PDL Guest |
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PDL Administrative Manager
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