| The full program is
available for download
here. |
| Monday,
September 15 |
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8:30 – 9:00 Registration, gathering,
coffee, opening remarks |
| **Plan to leave your
hotel by 8:15am in order to arrive on
time.** |
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9:00 – 10:00 Keynote 1 |
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Gennaro Cuomo,
IBM Fellow, VP, WebSphere CTO |
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10:00 – 10:30 Coffee Break |
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10:30 - 11:00 Invited Industrial Talk |
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eBay's
Scalability Odyssey: Growing and Evolving a
Large eCommerce Site.
Franco Travostino and Randy Shoup,
eBay Inc. |
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11:00 – 12:00
Technical Session 1:
Scalable storage and data management in a
datacenter and across |
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Smoke and
Mirrors: Shadowing Files at a Geographically
Remote Location Without Loss of Performance.
Hakim Weatherspoon, LakshmiGanesh, Tudor
Marian, Mahesh Balakrishnan, and Ken Birman,
Cornell |
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A Novel
Data Placement Model for Highly Available
Storage Systems.
VenugoplanRamasubramanian, MSR |
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12:00 Lunch |
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1:15 – 2:45 Technical Session 2:
General fault-tolerance techniques and tools
I |
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A Simple
Totally Ordered Broadcast System.
Benjamin Reed, Flavio P. Junqueira, Yahoo!
Research |
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Paxos for
System Builders: An Overview.
Yair Amir,
and Jonathan Kirsch, Johns Hopkins |
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Towards
Distributed Software Transactional Memory
Systems.
Paolo Romano, Nuno Carvalho,
INESC-ID/IST; Luis Rodrigues, U of Lisboa |
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2:45 – 3:00 Coffee Break |
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3:00 – 4:30 Technical Session 3:
Aggregation and monitoring |
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Distributed Slicing.
Anne-Marie Kermarec,
INRIA |
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Experience with Gossip-Based Monitoring for
Datacenter Management.
Robbert van
Renesse, Cornell |
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Decentralized Real-Time Monitoring of
Network-Wide Aggregates.
Rolf Stadler,
KTH |
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4:30 – 4:45 Coffee Break |
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4:45 – 5:45 Technical Session 4:
Byzantine Fault Tolerance I |
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Defining
Weakly Consistent Byzantine Fault-Tolerant
Services.
Petr
Kuznetsov, Rodrigo Rodrigues, Atul
Singh, Petros Maniatis, Intel Research
Berkeley; Pedro Fonseca, MPI-SWS |
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Low-latency
Access to Robust Amnesic Storage.
Dan Dobre,
Matthias Majuntke, and Neeraj Suri, TUD |
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| 5:45 Posters and demos in the
cafeteria annex (hors d'oeuvres, light
refreshments) |
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| Tuesday,
September 16 |
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8:45 Arrival at IBM Site |
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9:00 – 10:00 Keynote 2 |
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James Hamilton, Microsoft Research, Data
Center Futures Team |
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10:00 Coffee Break |
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10:30 – 12:00
Technical Session 5: Byzanitne Fault-Tolerance (BFT) |
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BFT: the
Time is Now.
Allen Clement, Mirco
Marchetti, Edmund Wong, Lorenzo, Alvisi,
Mike Dahlin, UT Austin |
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Reducing the
Costs of Large-Scale BFT Replication.
Marco
Serafini, and Neeraj Suri, TUD |
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The Next 700
BFT Protocols.
Rachid
Guerraoui, EPFL, Vivien Quema, CNRS, Marko
Vukolic, EPFL |
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12:00 Lunch |
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1:15 – 2:35 Technical Session 6:
Scalable Event Notification |
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Interest-Based Peer Clustering for Scalable
Overlay-Based Multicast: SpiderCast and
Gravity. Gregory Chockler, IBM Research; Sarunas Girdijauskas, EPFL; Roie Melamed,
IBM Research; Yoav Tock, IBM Research; Roman Vitenberg, U of Oslo |
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Scalable Time-Critical Event Notification
for Data Centers. Joe Hoffert, Douglas
Schmidt, Vanderbilt; Mahesh Balakrishnan,
Ken Birman, Cornell |
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2:35 Coffee Break |
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| 3:00 –
4:30 Technical Session 7:
Resource Management in a Data Center |
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Decentralized
Approaches to Performance/Resource
Optimization.
Mike
Spreitzer, IBM Research |
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Efficient
On-Demand Operations in Dynamic Distributed
Infrastructures.
Steven Y. Ko,
and Indranil Gupta, UIUC |
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Configuration-Space Performance Anomaly
Depiction.
Christopher
Stewart, Kai Shen, Rochester; Arun Iyengar,
Jian Yin, IBM |
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5:00 Departure for the Hudson River
Dining Cruise |
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Wednesday,
September 17 |
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8:45 Arrival at IBM Site |
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9:00 - 10:00
Technical Session 8:
Tools and Abstractions for Robust
Distributed Systems II |
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Markers for Probabilistic Quorum Systems.
Michael G. Merideth, CMU, Michael K. Reiter,
UNC |
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Building
distributed applications using Sinfonia.
Marcos Aguilera, MSR |
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10:00 Coffee Break |
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| 10:30 -
12:00
Technical Session 9:
Scalable
Communication Primitives |
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Content-Based Networking: Ideas for Scalable
Content-Based Publish/Subscribe
Communication (Some Old, Some New).
Antonio Carzaniga, U of Lugano |
| Dr.
Multicast: Rx for Datacenter Communication
Scalability. Ymir Vigfusson, Hussam
Abu-Libdeh, Mahesh Balakrishnan, Ken Birman,
Cornell, Yoav Tock, IBM Research |
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Heterogeneous Gossiping. Davide Frey,
INRIA, Rachid Guerraoui, EPFL, Anne-Marie
Kermarrec, INRIA, Maxime Monod, EPFL, Vivien
Quema, CNRS |
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12:00 Concluding
remarks, adjourn |
