PDL Summer 2026 Talk Series

The Parallel Data Lab (PDL) Summer Talk Series is an engaging forum featuring presentations by PDL industry members from the lab's consortium, faculty, and students. Designed to share cutting-edge developments in storage systems, databases, machine learning systems, cloud computing, and other systems topics. PDL Summer Talks take place Thursdays at Noon ET over Zoom, throughout the summer months. The series serves as a valuable opportunity for the PDL community to exchange ideas on emerging challenges and innovations in data-intensive computing.

Registration is required to attend, except for PDL faculty and staff. You only need to register once to receive all future talk announcements and details for all summer. A new Zoom room will be used for each talk date, and Zoom links will be emailed to registered people a couple days in advance.

Please use this Secure Online Registration Form to register.

Slides and Videos for some talks are only available to Consortium members at the Talk Series Resources page.

Schedule

SPEAKER	TALK/ABSTRACT
THURSDAY, June 4, 2026
Ethan L. Miller, Everpure	Towards Archival Storage Using QLC Flash Video: Available to PDL Consortium Members
THURSDAY, June 11, 2026
Yiran Lei, Carnegie Mellon University	The Energy Cost of Execution-idle in GPU Clusters Video: Available to PDL Consortium Members
Dan Volz, Oracle	Database Observability Video: Available to PDL Consortium Members
Chunyan Du, Oracle	Network Observability Video: Available to PDL Consortium Members
THURSDAY, June 18, 2026
Vikramraj Sitpal & Shubham Kumar, Oracle	Why We Created Yet Another Memory Framework: Understanding MGA’s Role in Next-Gen Database Systems Video: Available to PDL Consortium Members
Rajarshi Chowdhury, Oracle	Rethinking Database I/O: io_uring, Atomic Writes, and the Road Ahead Video: Available to PDL Consortium Members
THURSDAY, June 25, 2026
Hugo Sadok, Carnegie Mellon University	A General Device Communication Protocol Video: please inquire with the speaker
THURSDAY, July 2, 2026
No speaker this week	Enjoy the holiday!
THURSDAY, July 9, 2026
Gary Grider & Brian Atkinson, Los Alamos National Laboratory	The Grand Unified File Index (GUFI), a Global Metabase PNFS-Lattice D-Threads (and D-Mutex) Video: Available to PDL Consortium Members
THURSDAY, July 16, 2026
Elaine Shi & Afonso Tinoco, Carnegie Mellon University	Oblivious RAM: from theory to large-scale deployment Video: Available to PDL Consortium Members
Vaibhav Arora, Salesforce	Salesforce Database: A Cloud-Native Multi-Tenant OLTP Database Video: Available to PDL Consortium Members
THURSDAY, July 23, 2026
Kim Keeton, Google	Not Your Grandparents' Memory System Video: Available to PDL Consortium Members
THURSDAY, July 30, 2026
Davis Haupt, Jane Street	Supercharging Metadata for Jane Street's Data Warehouse Video: Available to PDL Consortium Members
THURSDAY, August 6, 2026
Stephen Mell, Canegie Mellon University	Opportunistic Evaluation for Compound AI Systems Video: Available to PDL Consortium Members
THURSDAY, August 13, 2026
Hans Holmberg, Western Digital	Evolving XFS with Zoned Storage Support
THURSDAY, August 20, 2026
Olivia Hsu, Carnegie Mellon University	Programming Data-dependent Applications on Hardware Accelerators
Aaron Ogus, Microsoft	Reliably Storing Zettabytes of Data: Moore's law meets Murhpy's law

 

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