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ACCEPTED PAPERS
Please Note: This workshop is by invitation and/or acceptance of paper submission.
All sessions take place in the Auditorium unless otherwise noted.
Session papers are available to workshop registrants immediately and to everyone beginning May 18, 2009.
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| Sunday, May 17 | Monday, May 18 | Tuesday, May 19 | Wednesday, May 20
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| Sunday, May 17 |
| 6:30 p.m.–8:00 p.m. |
Terrace |
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Welcome Reception
Refreshments and snacks provided. Spouses are welcome to attend.
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| Monday, May 18 |
| 9:00 a.m.–10:30 a.m. |
Monday |
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Opening Remarks and Keynote Address
Remarks in Slides
Keynote Address: The City Is Here for You to Use
Adam Greenfield, Head of Design Direction, Nokia
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| 10:30 a.m.–11:00 a.m. Break |
Bar Roccia |
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| 11:00 a.m.–12:30 p.m. |
Monday |
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It's Dead, Jim
Session Chair: George Candea, EPFL
Hierarchical File Systems Are Dead
Margo Seltzer and Nicholas Murphy, Harvard School of Engineering and Applied Sciences
Paper in PDF
An End to the Middle
Colin Dixon, Arvind Krishnamurthy, and Thomas Anderson, University of Washington
Paper in HTML | PDF
No Time for Asynchrony
Marcos K. Aguilera, Microsoft Research Silicon Valley; Michael Walfish, University College London, Stanford, University of Texas at Austin
Paper in PDF
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| 12:30 p.m.–2:00 p.m. Lunch |
Ristorante |
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| 2:00 p.m.–3:30 p.m. |
Monday |
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Heads in the Clouds
Session Chair: Garth Gibson, Carnegie Mellon University and Panasas, Inc.
Computer Meteorology: Monitoring Compute Clouds
Lionel Litty, H. Andrés Lagar-Cavilla, and David Lie, University of Toronto
Paper in HTML | PDF | Slides
Wave Computing in the Cloud
Bingsheng He, Mao Yang, and Zhenyu Guo, Microsoft Research Asia; Rishan Chen, Microsoft Research Asia and Beijing University; Wei Lin, Bing Su, Hongyi Wang, and Lidong Zhou, Microsoft Research Asia
Paper in HTML | PDF | Slides
On Availability of Intermediate Data in Cloud Computations
Steven Y. Ko, Imranul Hoque, Brian Cho, and Indranil Gupta, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
Paper in HTML | PDF
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| 3:30 p.m.–4:00 p.m. Break |
Bar Roccia |
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| 4:00 p.m.–4:15 p.m. |
Monday |
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Decide on dinner table discussion themes
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| 4:15 p.m.–5:45 p.m. |
Monday |
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Small Is Beautiful
Session Chair: Kimberly Keeton, Hewlett-Packard Labs
Mobility Changes Everything in Low-Power Wireless Sensornets
Prabal Dutta and David Culler, University of California, Berkeley
Paper in HTML | PDF | Slides
Augmented Smartphone Applications Through Clone Cloud Execution
Byung-Gon Chun and Petros Maniatis, Intel Research Berkeley
Paper in HTML | PDF
Peloton: Coordinated Resource Management for Sensor Networks
Jason Waterman, Geoffrey Werner Challen, and Matt Welsh, School of Engineering and Applied Sciences, Harvard University
Paper in HTML | PDF | Slides
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| 6:00 p.m.–7:30 p.m. Dinner |
Ristorante |
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Theme discussions will be held at each table. Spouses are welcome to attend.
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| 7:30 p.m. |
Monday |
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Dinner Discussions Continued
Refreshments will be provided.
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| Sunday, May 17 | Monday, May 18 | Tuesday, May 19 | Wednesday, May 20
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| Tuesday, May 19 |
| 9:00 a.m.–10:30 a.m. |
Tuesday |
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Things Your OS Should Do . . . But Doesn't
Session Chair: Dan S. Wallach, Rice University
Migration without Virtualization
Michael A. Kozuch, Michael Kaminsky, and Michael P. Ryan, Intel Research Pittsburgh
Paper in HTML | PDF
Operating Systems Should Provide Transactions
Donald E. Porter and Emmett Witchel, The University of Texas at Austin
Paper in HTML | PDF
Your computer is already a distributed system. Why isn't your OS?
Andrew Baumann, Simon Peter, Adrian Schüpbach, Akhilesh Singhania, and
Timothy Roscoe, ETH Zurich; Paul Barham and Rebecca Isaacs, Microsoft Research, Cambridge
Paper in HTML | PDF | Slides
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| 10:30 a.m.–11:00 a.m. Break |
Bar Roccia |
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| 11:00 a.m.–12:30 p.m. |
Tuesday |
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Hardware
Session Chair: Petros Maniatis, Intel Research Berkeley
FlashVM: Revisiting the Virtual Memory Hierarchy
Mohit Saxena and Michael M. Swift, University of Wisconsin—Madison
Paper in HTML | PDF
Operating System Support for NVM+DRAM Hybrid Main Memory
Jeffrey C. Mogul, HP Labs, Palo Alto; Eduardo Argollo, HP Labs, Barcelona, Spain; Mehul Shah, HP Labs, Palo Alto; Paolo Faraboschi, HP Labs, Barcelona, Spain
Paper in HTML | PDF | Slides
Hera-JVM: Abstracting Processor Heterogeneity Behind a Virtual Machine
Ross McIlroy and Joe Sventek, University of Glasgow
Paper in HTML | PDF | Slides
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| 12:30 p.m.–2:00 p.m. Lunch |
Ristorante |
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| 2:00 p.m.–3:30 p.m. |
Tuesday |
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Think Big
Format TBA; based in part on the dinner table discussions from the previous evening.
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| 3:30 p.m.–4:00 p.m. Break |
Bar Roccia |
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| 4:00 p.m.–5:00 p.m. |
Tuesday |
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Don't Touch That Dial
Session Chair: Michael L. Scott, University of Rochester
Security Impact Ratings Considered Harmful
Jeff Arnold, Tim Abbott, Waseem Daher, Gregory Price, Nelson Elhage, Geoffrey Thomas, and Anders Kaseorg, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Paper in HTML | PDF
If It Ain't Broke, Don't Fix It: Challenges and New Directions for Inferring the Impact of Software Patches
Jon Oberheide, Evan Cooke, and Farnam Jahanian, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor
Paper in HTML | PDF
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| 5:00 p.m.–5:30 p.m. Break |
Bar Roccia |
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| 5:30 p.m.–7:00 p.m. |
Tuesday |
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Outrageous Opinions, Open Mic, and Happy Hour
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| 7:00 p.m. Dinner (on your own)
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| Sunday, May 17 | Monday, May 18 | Tuesday, May 19 | Wednesday, May 20
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| Wednesday, May 20 |
| 9:00 a.m.–10:30 a.m. |
Wednesday |
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Getting a Better Handle on Distributed Systems
Session Chair: Timothy Roscoe, ETH Zürich
Simplifying Distributed System Development
Maysam Yabandeh, Nedeljko Vasić, Dejan Kostić, and Viktor Kuncak, EPFL
Paper in HTML | PDF
Automated Experiment-Driven Management of (Database) Systems
Shivnath Babu, Nedyalko Borisov, Songyun Duan, Herodotos Herodotou, and Vamsidhar Thummala, Duke University
Paper in PDF | Slides
FLUXO: A Simple Service Compiler
Emre Kıcıman, Benjamin Livshits, and Madanlal Musuvathi, Microsoft Research
Paper in PDF
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| 10:30 a.m.–11:00 a.m. Break |
Bar Roccia |
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| 11:00 a.m.–noon |
Wednesday |
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Leveraging Emerging Technology Trends
Session Chair: Rebecca Isaacs, Microsoft Research
Reinventing Scheduling for Multicore Systems
Silas Boyd-Wickizer, Robert Morris, and M. Frans Kaashoek, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Paper in PDF
FAWNdamentally Power-efficient Clusters
Vijay Vasudevan, Jason Franklin, David Andersen, Amar Phanishayee, and Lawrence Tan, Carnegie Mellon University; Michael Kaminsky, Intel Research, Pittsburgh; Iulian Moraru, Carnegie Mellon University
Paper in HTML | PDF | Slides
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| Noon–1:00 p.m. |
Wednesday |
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Report Back from Think Big session
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| 1:00 p.m. |
Wednesday |
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Closing Remarks
Remarks in Slides
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