27th Annual Workshop & Retreat
November 4 - 6, 2019
INFO & Agenda
- 2019 PDL Fall Update (pdf)
- 2019 PDL PACKET (pdf)
We are pleased to welcome our PDL Consortium Member Companies
to the 27th Annual Parallel Data Lab Workshop and Retreat.
GENERAL INFORMATION
OUR NEWSLETTER
2019 RETREAT RESOURCES
(Industry attendees, contact your Liaison for the username/password or
for more information)
RETREAT AGENDA - 2019
Monday, November 4: 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 2019 Retreat Welcome & Overview |
| 9:30 am - 10:30 am | Speaker -- SINGLETON ROOM
Brandon Lucia – Reliable Intermittent Computer Systems |
| 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 - 3:45 pm | Session I: There’s a Code for That -- COLONNADE BALLROOM Jack Kosian - Resilient ML Inference via Erasure Coding Saurabh Kadekodi - Gotta have HeART: Improving Storage Efficiency by Exploiting Disk-reliability Heterogeneity |
| 3:45 pm - 4:00 pm | Break -- CONSTITUTION HALL |
| 4:00 pm - 6:00 pm | Session II: The More You Know -- COLONNADE BALLROOM Qing Zheng - DeltaFS: Reforging Filesystems For Monster-Scale Computing Anuj Kalia - Efficient RPCs for Datacenters, and Applications to NVM Phil Gibbons - Prescriptive Memory |
| 6:00 pm - 7:30 pm | Dinner -- EISENHOWER BALLROOM |
| 7:30 pm - 8:30 pm | Session III: Short Work-in-Progress Talks -- COLONNADE BALLROOM Ankush Jain - Distributed Range Queries With Low Write Amplification Francisco Maturana - Convertible Codes: Efficient Conversion of Coded Data in Distributed Storage Daniel Berger - Caching Research Myths Busted and Lessons Learned PDL Students - 1-minute Intros of Non-speaker Poster Presenters |
| 8:30 pm - 10:30 pm | Reception/Poster Session I -- COLONNADE BALLROOM |
Tuesday, November 5: 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: More Efficient ML -- COLONNADE BALLROOM Angela Jiang - Accelerating Deep Learning by Focusing on the Biggest Losers Michael Kuchnik - Progressive Compressed Records: Taking a Byte Out of Deep Learning Data |
| 10:30 am - 10:45 am | Break -- CONSTITUTION HALL |
| 10:45 am - 12:15 pm | Session V: Getting it Right with New Storage Tech -- COLONNADE BALLROOM Rajat Kateja - Efficient Redundancy for Direct Access NVM Storage Abutalib Aghayev - Adopting LSM-Trees to Zoned Storage Devices |
| 12:15 pm - 1:30 pm | Lunch -- EISENHOWER BALLROOM |
| 1:30 pm - 2:45 pm | Socializing and Chat-filled Walk -- HOTEL GROUNDS Wii games room available 1:00 pm to midnight -- REAGAN-B |
| 2:45 pm - 4:15 pm | Session VI: Specializing for NVM -- COLONNADE BALLROOM Charles McGuffey - Semi-Asymmetric Parallel Graph Algorithms for NVRAMs Thomas Kim - CANDStore: Cheap Available NVM-based Distributed Storage |
| 4:15 pm - 4:30 pm | Break -- CONSTITUTION HALL |
| 4:30 pm - 6:00 pm | Session VII: Iconic Aperitifs -- COLONNADE BALLROOM Jason Yang - C2DN: How to Code on the Edge for Content Delivery Dominic Chen - Hardware-Accelerated Control-Flow Integrity Abutalib Aghayev - File Systems Unfit as Distributed Storage Backends: Lessons from 10 Years of Ceph Evolution |
| 6:00 pm - 7:30 pm | Dinner -- EISENHOWER BALLROOM |
| 7:30 pm - 8:30 pm | Session VIII: Short Work-In-Progress Talks -- COLONNADE BALLROOM Qing Zheng - Fast Data Shuffling on Manycore Processors Ziqi Wang - OverlayTM: Building a Faster Serializable HTM with Multiversioned Page Overlays (MPO) Ellango Jothimurugesan - ML Under Concept Drift Jinliang Wei - Training Larger Models on TensorFlow w/o Additional GPUs |
| 8:30 pm - 10:00 pm | Reception/Poster Session II -- COLONNADE BALLROOM |
Wednesday, November 6: 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: Close Strong! -- COLONNADE BALLROOM Daniel Berger - System Challenges of Bringing ML to Edge Caches Andrew Chung - Safer, Easier, and Lower-cost: A Whole New World of Resource Management with Inter-job Dependencies Pratik Fegade - End To End Compiler Optimizations for Microservice Based Applications |
| 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