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TECHNICAL SESSIONS
Conference papers are available to conference registrants immediately and to everyone beginning December 8, 2008. Everyone can view the proceedings front matter immediately.
Proceedings Front Matter:
Title Page |
Conference Organizers and External Reviewers |
Table of Contents |
Index of Authors |
Message from the Program Chair
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| Tech Sessions:
Monday, December 8 |
Tuesday, December 9 |
Wednesday, December 10
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| Monday, December 8 |
| 8:45 a.m.–9:00 a.m. |
Monday |
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Opening Remarks
Program Co-Chairs: Richard Draves, Microsoft Research; Robbert van Renesse, Cornell University
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| 9:00 a.m.–10:30 a.m. |
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Cloud Computing
Session Chair: Marvin Theimer, Amazon.com
Awarded Jay Lepreau Best Paper!
DryadLINQ: A System for General-Purpose Distributed Data-Parallel Computing Using a High-Level Language
Yuan Yu, Michael Isard, Dennis Fetterly, and Mihai Budiu, Microsoft Research Silicon Valley; Úlfar Erlingsson, Reykjavík University, Iceland, and Microsoft Research Silicon Valley; Pradeep Kumar Gunda and Jon Currey, Microsoft Research Silicon Valley
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Everest: Scaling Down Peak Loads Through I/O Off-Loading
Dushyanth Narayanan, Austin Donnelly, Eno Thereska, Sameh Elnikety, and Antony Rowstron, Microsoft Research Cambridge, United Kingdom
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Improving MapReduce Performance in Heterogeneous Environments
Matei Zaharia, Andy Konwinski, Anthony D. Joseph, Randy Katz, and Ion Stoica, University of California, Berkeley
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| 10:30 a.m.–11:00 a.m. Break |
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| 11:00 a.m.–12:30 p.m. |
Monday |
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OS Architecture
Session Chair: Remzi Arpaci-Dusseau, University of Wisconsin, Madison
Corey: An Operating System for Many Cores
Silas Boyd-Wickizer, Massachusetts Institute of Technology; Haibo Chen, Rong Chen, and Yandong Mao, Fudan University; Frans Kaashoek, Robert Morris, and Aleksey Pesterev, Massachusetts Institute of Technology; Lex Stein and Ming Wu, Microsoft Research Asia; Yuehua Dai, Xi'an Jiaotong University; Yang Zhang, Massachusetts Institute of Technology; Zheng Zhang, Microsoft Research Asia
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CuriOS: Improving Reliability through Operating System Structure
Francis M. David, Ellick M. Chan, Jeffrey C. Carlyle, and Roy H. Campbell, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
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Redline: First Class Support for Interactivity in Commodity Operating Systems
Ting Yang, Tongping Liu, and Emery D. Berger, University of Massachusetts Amherst; Scott F. Kaplan, Amherst College; J. Eliot B. Moss, University of Massachusetts Amherst
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| 12:30 p.m.–2:00 p.m. Lunch |
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| 2:00 p.m.–3:30 p.m. |
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Monitoring
Session Chair: Dave Presotto, Google, Inc.
Network Imprecision: A New Consistency Metric for Scalable Monitoring
Navendu Jain, Microsoft Research; Prince Mahajan and Dmitry Kit, University of Texas at Austin; Praveen Yalagandula, HP Labs; Mike Dahlin and Yin Zhang, University of Texas at Austin
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Lightweight, High-Resolution Monitoring for Troubleshooting Production Systems
Sapan Bhatia, Princeton University; Abhishek Kumar, Google Inc.; Marc E. Fiuczynski and Larry Peterson, Princeton University
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Automating Network Application Dependency Discovery: Experiences, Limitations, and New Solutions
Xu Chen, University of Michigan; Ming Zhang, Microsoft Research; Z. Morley Mao, University of Michigan; Paramvir Bahl, Microsoft Research
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| 3:30 p.m.–4:00 p.m. Break |
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| 4:00 p.m.–5:30 p.m. |
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Work-in-Progress Reports (WiPs)
Session Chair: Philip Levis, Stanford University
The Work-in-Progress reports (WiPs) session offers short
presentations about research in progress, new results, or timely
topics. Check out the list
of accepted WiPs.
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| 5:30 p.m.–6:00 p.m. |
Monday |
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Inauguration of the Jay Lepreau Award for the Best Paper Presented at the 8th OSDI
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| 6:30 p.m.–10:00 p.m. |
Monday |
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Symposium Reception
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| Tech Sessions:
Monday, December 8 |
Tuesday, December 9 |
Wednesday, December 10
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| Tuesday, December 9 |
| 9:00 a.m.–10:30 a.m. |
Tuesday |
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File Systems
Session Chair: Marcos Aguilera, Microsoft Research
SQCK: A Declarative File System Checker
Haryadi S. Gunawi, Abhishek Rajimwale, Andrea C. Arpaci-Dusseau, and Remzi H. Arpaci-Dusseau, University of Wisconsin, Madison
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Transactional Flash
Vijayan Prabhakaran, Thomas L. Rodeheffer, and Lidong Zhou, Microsoft Research, Silicon Valley
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Avoiding File System Micromanagement with Range Writes
Ashok Anand and Sayandeep Sen, University of Wisconsin, Madison; Andrew Krioukov, University of California, Berkeley; Florentina Popovici, Google; Aditya Akella, Andrea Arpaci-Dusseau, Remzi Arpaci-Dusseau, and Suman Banerjee, University of Wisconsin, Madison
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| 10:30 a.m.–11:00 a.m. Break |
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| 11:00 a.m.–12:30 p.m. |
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Programming Language Techniques
Session Chair: Terence Kelly, HP Labs
Binary Translation Using Peephole Superoptimizers
Sorav Bansal and Alex Aiken, Stanford University
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R2: An Application-Level Kernel for Record and Replay
Zhenyu Guo, Microsoft Research Asia; Xi Wang, Tsinghua University; Jian Tang and Xuezheng Liu, Microsoft Research Asia; Zhilei Xu, Tsinghua University; Ming Wu, Microsoft Research Asia; M. Frans Kaashoek, MIT CSAIL; Zheng Zhang, Microsoft Research Asia
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Awarded Jay Lepreau Best Paper!
KLEE: Unassisted and Automatic Generation of High-Coverage Tests for Complex Systems Programs
Cristian Cadar, Daniel Dunbar, and Dawson Engler, Stanford University
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| 12:30 p.m.–2:00 p.m. Lunch |
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Tuesday |
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Security
Session Chair: David Lie, University of Toronto
Hardware Enforcement of Application Security Policies Using Tagged Memory
Nickolai Zeldovich, Massachusetts Institute of Technology; Hari Kannan, Michael Dalton, and Christos Kozyrakis, Stanford University
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Device Driver Safety Through a Reference Validation Mechanism
Dan Williams, Patrick Reynolds, Kevin Walsh, Emin Gün Sirer, and Fred B. Schneider, Cornell University
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Digging for Data Structures
Anthony Cozzie, Frank Stratton, Hui Xue, and Samuel T. King, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
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| 3:30 p.m.–4:00 p.m. Break |
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Tuesday |
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Dealing with Concurrency Bugs
Session Chair: Wolfgang Schröder-Preikschat, University of Erlangen-Nürnberg
Finding and Reproducing Heisenbugs in Concurrent Programs
Madanlal Musuvathi, Shaz Qadeer, and Thomas Ball, Microsoft Research; Gerard Basler, ETH Zurich; Piramanayagam Arumuga Nainar, University of Wisconsin, Madison; Iulian Neamtiu, University of California, Riverside
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Gadara: Dynamic Deadlock Avoidance for Multithreaded Programs
Yin Wang, University of Michigan and Hewlett-Packard Laboratories; Terence Kelly, Hewlett-Packard Laboratories; Manjunath Kudlur, Stéphane Lafortune, and Scott Mahlke, University of Michigan
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Deadlock Immunity: Enabling Systems to Defend Against Deadlocks
Horatiu Jula, Daniel Tralamazza, Cristian Zamfir, and George Candea, École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne (EPFL), Switzerland
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| 6:00 p.m.–7:30 p.m. |
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Poster Session and Happy Hour
Session Chair: Dejan Kostić, École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne
The OSDI Poster Session will be held in conjunction with a happy hour at the Symposium. Check out the list of accepted posters.
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Monday, December 8 |
Tuesday, December 9 |
Wednesday, December 10
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| Wednesday, December 10 |
| 9:00 a.m.–10:30 a.m. |
Wednesday |
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Various Good Things
Session Chair: Jim Waldo, Sun Microsystems, Inc.
Awarded Jay Lepreau Best Paper!
Difference Engine: Harnessing Memory Redundancy in Virtual Machines
Diwaker Gupta, University of California, San Diego; Sangmin Lee, University of Texas at Austin; Michael Vrable, Stefan Savage, Alex C. Snoeren, George Varghese, Geoffrey M. Voelker, and Amin Vahdat, University of California, San Diego
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Quanto: Tracking Energy in Networked Embedded Systems
Rodrigo Fonseca, University of California, Berkeley, and Yahoo! Research; Prabal Dutta, University of California, Berkeley; Philip Levis, Stanford University; Ion Stoica, University of California, Berkeley
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Leveraging Legacy Code to Deploy Desktop Applications on the Web
John R. Douceur, Jeremy Elson, Jon Howell, and Jacob R. Lorch, Microsoft Research
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Wednesday |
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Wide-Area Distributed Systems
Session Chair: Dejan Kostić, École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne
FlightPath: Obedience vs. Choice in Cooperative Services
Harry C. Li and Allen Clement, University of Texas at Austin; Mirco Marchetti, University of Modena and Reggio Emilia; Manos Kapritsos, Luke Robison, Lorenzo Alvisi, and Mike Dahlin, University of Texas at Austin
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Mencius: Building Efficient Replicated State Machines for WANs
Yanhua Mao, University of California, San Diego; Flavio P. Junqueira, Yahoo! Research Barcelona; Keith Marzullo, University of California, San Diego
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