The Intel Science and Technology Center for Cloud Computing (ISTC-CC) is an open community of leading researchers devising critical new underlying technologies for cloud computing of the future. It is headquartered at Carnegie Mellon and includes researchers from Georgia Tech, Intel, Princeton, UC-Berkeley, and the University of Washington.
Our research focuses on the foundation for future clouds and cloud applications. We are exploring system architectures, programming models, and automation mechanisms that enable dramatic efficiency, ubiquity, and productivity improvements. We organize our research into four inter-related "pillars" that hold up that foundation, enhancing efficiency/productivity via specialization and automation and focusing on dominant emerging trends toward Big Data analytics and adaptive cooperation among billions of edge devices and cloud resources. ... [more]
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RESEARCH HIGHLIGHTS
Ling Liu's SC13 paper "Large Graph Processing Without the Overhead" featured by HPCwire.
ISTC-CC provides a listing of useful benchmarks for cloud computing.
Another list highlighting Open Source Software Releases.
Second GraphLab workshop should be even bigger than the first! GraphLab is a new programming framework for graph-style data analytics.
Recent ISTC-CC News
First IEEE Symposium on Edge Computing (SEC 2016)
Jan 11, 2016
The First IEEE Symposium on Edge Computing (SEC 2016) is a new conference that focuses on research pertaining to small data centers that are located at the edge of the Internet. Terms such as "cloudlets," "micro data centers," and "fog" have been used to refer to these edge-located data centers. They offer services at low end-to-end latency and high end-to-end bandwidth to associated mobile devices, IoT sensors, and end users.
March 2, 2016 is the submission deadline for SEC 2016. Further details are at: http://conferences.computer.org/SEC/. Please submit papers to this conference and publicize it.
Best Paper Award at SoCC!
August 27, 2015
Congratulations to Jinliang Wei and co-authors Wei Dai, Aurick Qiao, Qirong Ho, Henggang Cui, Gregory R. Ganger, Phillip B. Gibbons, Garth A. Gibson, and Eric P. Xing on winning one of two awards for Best Paper at the 2015 ACM Symposium on Cloud Computing....[more]
Margaret Martonosi Awarded ACM SIGARCH/IEEE TCCA Influential ISCA Paper Award
June 13, 2015
Margaret Martonosi’s paper "Wattch: A Framework for Architectural-Level Power Analysis and Optimizations," co-auathored with David Brooks and Vivek Tiwari, from ISCA 2000 received ACM SIGARCH/IEEE TCCA Influential ISCA Paper Award at ISCA this year....[more]
Alexey Tumanov Receives ECE's Graduate Student Teaching Assistant Award
May 18, 2015
Congratulations to Alexey for receiving ECE's Outstanding Graduate Student Teaching Assistant Award for his efforts on 15-719: Advanced Cloud Computing, taught by Garth Gibson and Majd Sakr during the fall semester of 2014...[more]
Best paper award at CCGRID '15
May 4, 2015
Congratulations to Yuzhe Tang, Arun Iyengar, Wei Tan, Liana Fong, Balaji Palanisamy, and Ling Liu for receiving the best paper award for their work on "Lightweight Indexing for Log-Structured Key-Value Stores"...[more]
Margaret Martonosi Receives Marie R. Pistilli Women in EDA Achievement Award
April 27, 2015
Margaret R. Martonosi, Hugh Trumbull Adams ’35 Professor of Computer Science at Princeton University, has been selected as the Marie R. Pistilli Women in Electronic Design Automation (EDA) Achievement Award recipient for 2015...[more]
Onur Mutlu Receives Google Faculty Research Award
March 25, 2015
Congratulations to Onur on receiving a Google Faculty Research Award. Google Research Awards are one-year awards structured as unrestricted gifts to universities to support the work of world-class full-time faculty members at top universities around the world....[more]
First place in ACM Student Research Competition
March 14, 2015
Gennady Pekhimenko, along with co-authors Evgeny Bolotin, Mike O'Connor, Onur Mutlu, Todd C. Mowry and Stephen W. Keckler have been awarded first place in the ASPLOS Student Research Competition, Istanbul, Turkey for their work on "Energy-Efficient Data Compression for GPU Memory Systems."...[more]
Justin Meza Receives Google US/Canada Fellowship
February 18, 2015
Justin Meza was selected to receive a Google US/Canada Fellowship for his work in Systems Reliability....[more]
Best paper runner-up at HPCA 2015
February 7, 2015
Congratulations to Yu Cai, Yixin Luo, Erich F. Haratsch, Ken Mai, Onur Mutlu for receiving Best Paper Runner Up at the 21st International Symposium on High-Performance Computer Architecture (HPCA) for their paper "Data Retention in MLC NAND Flash Memory: Characterization, Optimization and Recovery." ...[more]
MICRO 2014 Paper an IEEE Top Pick
January 30, 2015
The MICRO 2014 paper “PipeCheck: Specifying and Verifying Microarchitectural Enforcement of Memory Consistency Models,” was selected as an annual Top Picks selection in Computer Architecture....[more]
Best Student Presentation Award
January 19, 2015
Justin Meza received one of the two Best Presentation Awards at the 10th HiPEAC (High Performance and Embedded Architecture and Compilation) conference. ...[more]
Best Paper Award at HiPC '14
December 17, 2014
Congratulations to Nagakishore Jammula, Moinuddin Qureshi, Ada Gavrilovska and Jongman Kim for being awarded Best Paper for their work on "Balancing Context Switch Penalty and Response Time with Elastic Time Slicing." ...[more]
Best Paper Nominee at micro '14
December 13, 2014
Congratulations to Daniel Lustig, Michael Pellauer, and Margaret Martonosi for having their work "PipeCheck: Specifying and Verifying Microarchitectural Enforcement of Memory Consistency Models" nominated for Best Paper at the 47th International Symposium on Microarchitecture (MICRO)....[more]
Best Paper Award at Mobiquitous '14
December 2, 2014
Congratulations to Kisung Lee, Raghu Ganti, Mudhakar Srivatsa and Ling Liu on being awarded Best Paper at the 11th International Conference on Mobile and Ubiquitous Systems...[more]
Ling Liu Named an IEEE Fellow
December 2014
Ling Liu (Georgia Tech) was elevated to IEEE Fellow, for “contributions to scalable Internet data management and decentralized trust management.” ...[more]
Best Paper Award at SC '14
November 16, 2014
Congratulations to Kai Ren, Qing Zheng, Swapnil Patil, and Garth Gibson on being awarded paper at the 2014 ACM/IEEE International Conference for High Performance Computing, Networking, Storage and Analysis (SC'14)...[more]
Best Student Paper Award at LISA '14
November 9, 2014
Congratulations to Sara Alspaugh, Betty Beidi Chen, Jessica Lin, Archana Ganapathi, Marti A. Hearst, and Randy Katz on receiving the award for Best Student Paper at the 2014 USENIX Large Installation System Administration Conference (LISA’14)...[more]
Best Paper Award at SOCC '14
November 3, 2014
Congratulations to Iulian Moraru, Dave Andersen and Michael Kaminsky for receiving the best paper award at the 5th ACM Symposium on Cloud Computing (SOCC’14) for their work on “Paxos Quorum Leases: Fast Reads without Sacrificing Writes.” ...[more]
Best Paper Runner-up at IISWC'14
October 26, 2014
“Characterization and Analysis of Dynamic Parallelism in Unstructured GPU Applications” by J. Wang and S. Yalamanchili was a best paper runner-up at the IEEE International Symposium on Workload Characterization (IISWC’14)...[more]
Best Paper Runner-up at EMNLP '14
October 25, 2014
“Language Modeling with Power Low Rank Ensembles” by A. P. Parikh, A. Saluja, C. Dyer and E. P. Xing was a best paper runner-up at the 2014 Conference on Empirical Methods on Natural Language Processing (EMNLP’14)... [more]
Best Paper Award!
August 24, 2014
Aaron Li, Amr Ahmed, Sujith Ravi, Alex Smola have won the KDD 2014 best paper prize for their work on Reducing the sampling complexity of topic models... [more]
Siewiorek Recieves 2 DAC Awards
June 1, 2014
At the 51st ACM/IEEE Design and Automation Conference for electronic systems in San Francisco this year, Dan Siewiorek received two awards... [more]
ISTC-CC Student Awarded Intel Foundation/SRCEA Graduate Fellowship
May 12, 2014
ECE doctoral student Kevin Kai-Wei Chang (CMU), who is working with Professor Onur Mutlu on efficient memory systems, has been selected to receive the prestigious Intel Foundation/SRCEA Graduate Fellowship... [more]
Mor Harchol-Balter Recipient of Two Teaching Awards
May 2014
Congratulations to Mor Harchol-Balter (CMU) who received two awards as a result of her teachings... [more]
Mutlu Receives Microsoft Research Award
April 21, 2014
ECE Professor Onur Mutlu has been selected as one of 12 applicants to receive a 2014 Microsoft Research Award from the Software Engineering Innovation Foundation (SEIF)... [more]
Best Paper Award!
April 15, 2014
Onur Mutlu (CMU) and co-authors Hyoseung Kim, Dionisio de Niz, Bjorn Andersson, Mark Klein, and Ragunathan (Raj) Rajkumar received the Best Paper Award at the 20th IEEE Real-Time and Embedded Technology & Applications Symposium... [more]
ISTC-CC Paper Presented in Best Paper Session
April 9, 2014
Samira Khan, an ECE post-doctoral researcher, presented a paper at the 2014 International Symposium on High-Performance Computer Architecture (HPCA), during the Best Paper Session... [more]
Best Paper Award!
March 10, 2014
Congratulations to Wolfgang Richter (CMU), Canturk Isci (IBM Research), Jan Harkes and Benjamin Gilbert (CMU), Vasanth Bala (IBM Research), and Mahadev Satyanarayan (CMU)... [more]
Greg Ganger Receives 2014 Steven J. Fenves Award
March 4, 2014
ICES (CMU’s The Institute for Complex Engineered Systems) has announced that Greg Ganger is the recipient of the 2014 Steven J. Fenves Award for Systems Research... [more]