24th Annual Workshop & Retreat
October 17 - 19, 2016
INFO & Agenda
- 2016 PDL Fall Update (pdf)
- 2016 PDL PACKET (pdf)
We are pleased to welcome our PDL Consortium Member Companies
to the 24th Annual Parallel Data Lab Workshop and Retreat.
GENERAL INFORMATION
OUR NEWSLETTER
2016 RETREAT RESOURCES
(Industry attendees, contact your Liaison for the username/password or
for more information)
Retreat Agenda
Monday, October 17: CMU/Bedford Springs Resort
| 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 2016 Retreat Welcome & Overview |
| 9:30 am - 10:30 am | Speaker -- SINGLETON ROOM
Kayvon Fatahalian & David Andersen – VizCloud ISTC: New Research Center on Cloud Systems for Visual Computing |
| 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: Specializing Storage Software -- COLONNADE BALLROOM Anuj Kalia – Designing High Performance RDMA Systems: Guidelines and Distributed Transactions Abutalib Aghayev – Evolving ext4 for SMR Disks |
| 3:30 pm - 3:45 pm | Break -- CONSTITUTION HALL |
| 3:45 pm - 6:15 pm | Session II: Making it Easier to Use ML -- COLONNADE BALLROOM Kevin Hseih - Gaia – Geo-Distributed Machine Learning Approaching LAN Speeds Henggang Cui – System Support for Automatic Machine Learning Tuning Jinliang Wei – Automatic Parallelization for Efficient Machine Learning Training Lin Ma – The Self-Driving DBMS Michael Zhang – Avoiding Transaction Conflict via Statistical Scheduling George Amvrosiadis – File Systems in the Era of Exascale Computing and Tiered Storage |
| 6:15 pm - 7:30 pm | Dinner -- EISENHOWER BALLROOM |
| 7:30 pm - 8:30 pm | Session III: Short Work-in-Progress Talks -- COLONNADE BALLROOM Qing Zheng – DeltaFS: Your Next HPC “/scratch” File System Saurabh Kadekodi – Aging Gracefully with Geriatrix: A File System Aging Suite Matt Perron – Write-Behind Logging Pengtao Xie – Lighter-Communication Distributed Machine Learning via Sufficient Factor Broadcasting |
| 8:30 pm - 10:30 pm | Reception/Poster Session I -- COLONNADE BALLROOM |
Tuesday, October 18: Bedford Springs Resort
| 8:15 am - 9:00 am | Full Breakfast -- CRYSTAL DINING ROOM Continental Breakfast -- CONSTITUTION HALL |
| 9:00 am - 10:30 am | Session IV: Shared Storage and ML in the Cloud -- COLONNADE BALLROOM Timmy Zhu – SNC-Meister: Admitting More Tenants with Tail Latency SLOs Aaron Harlap – Agile Elasticity in ML: How To Do it and How to Take Advantage of It |
| 10:30 am - 10:45 am | Break -- CONSTITUTION HALL |
| 10:45 am - 12:15 pm | Session V: Doing More with Memory -- COLONNADE BALLROOM Huanchen Zhang – Reducing the Storage Overhead of Main-memory OLTP Databases with Hybrid Indexes Rajat Kateja – BBRAM++: Low-Cost Battery Backed DRAM |
| 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: Correctness and Efficiency -- COLONNADE BALLROOM Ben Blum – Systematic Testing with Data-race Preemption Points Yixin Luo – Improving SSD Lifetime with Flash Device Awareness |
| 4:30 pm - 4:45 pm | Break -- CONSTITUTION HALL |
| 4:45 pm - 6:15 pm | Session VII: Toward Better Scheduling and Analytics Performance -- COLONNADE BALLROOM Angela Jiang & Junwoo Park – JamaisVu: Robust Scheduling with Auto-estimated Runtimes Jinliang Wei – Benchmarking Apache Spark with Machine Learning Applications |
| 6:15 pm - 7:30 pm | Dinner -- EISENHOWER BALLROOM |
| 7:30 pm - 8:30 pm | Session VIII: Short Work-In-Progress Talks -- COLONNADE BALLROOM Ziqi Wang – Implementing An In-Memory Concurrent Lock-Free B+Tree Index Chris Fallin – Macro-scale Program Optimizations by Inferring Semantic Intent Prashanth Menon – Optimizing Compiled Query Execution for Main-Memory Databases Andy Pavlo – CMU DB App Catalog |
| 8:30 pm - 10:00 pm | Reception/Poster Session II -- COLONNADE BALLROOM |
Wednesday, October 19: Bedford Springs Resort
| Morning | Workshop Talks |
| 8:45am - 9:15am | Full Breakfast -- CRYSTAL DINING ROOM Continental Breakfast -- CONSTITUTION HALL |
| 9:15am - 11:30am | Session IX: Storage, New Memory Models, and New ML Models -- COLONNADE BALLROOM George Amvrosiadis – Unobtrusive Storage Maintenance Charlie McGuffey – Parallel Algorithms for Asymmetric Read-Write Costs Jin Kyu Kim – STRADS: A Comprehensive Approach for Improving Performance and Programmability of Parallel ML |
| 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 |
CONTACTS:
Director, Parallel Data Lab
VOICE: (412) 268-1297
Executive Director, Parallel Data Lab
VOICE: (412) 268-5485
PDL Administrative Manager
VOICE: (412) 268-6716