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The ISTC-CC Update 2016 - NEW!

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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.

Open-source Spark framework makes iterative and interactive data analytics FAST, both to run and to write.

ISTC-CC 2013 Retreat

3rd annual ISTC-CC Retreat

November 6 - 8, 2013

4th Floor, CIC BLDG., Carnegie Mellon University

We are pleased to welcome our ISTC Collaborators to the
3rd Annual ISTC-CC Retreat.

RETREAT AGENDA - more details will be added as the event approaches

Pittsburgh Accommodations

Transportation

Maps

Pittsburgh Weather

Contacts

***SECURE ONLINE REGISTRATION FORM***
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***POSTER REGISTRATION FORM*** - please register your planned posters

Retreat poster templates - Adobe Illustrator | Powerpoint

Submit your final poster to istc-cc-posters@lists.andrew.cmu.edu

Retreat Resources:

Posters

Talks

Attendees

ISTC-CC Graduating Students

Retreat Agenda

Additional agenda details will be added as the event approaches.

Wednesday, November 6

Optional Event - Pre-retreat dinner and poster session
Wyndham University Center
100 Lytton Avenue, Pittsburgh, PA 15213

6:00 - 6:30 pm

Sign-in / Reception

6:30 - 8:00 pm

Dinner / Poster Session (posters starting at 7:30 pm)

Thursday, November 7 Event Location Robert Mehrabian Collaborative Innovation Center (RMCIC) 4th floor, #410 Carnegie Mellon University
8:30 - 8:55 am	Continental breakfast / Registration
8:55 - 9:00 am	Welcome Jeff Parkhurst (Intel, Program Director for ISTC-CC)
9:00 - 9:15 am	Opening Remarks Rich Uhlig (Intel Labs, Executive Sponsor for ISTC-CC, Intel Fellow)
9:15 - 10:15 am	Center Overview Greg Ganger (CMU-PI) / Phil Gibbons (Intel-PI)
10:15 - 11:05 am	Research Talks Session 1 Ion Stoica (UC Berkeley) Discretized Streams: Fault-Tolerant Streaming Computation at Scale Priya Narasimhan (CMU) Better Problem Diagnosis in the Cloud
11:05 - 11:30 am	Break
11:30 am - 12:00 pm	Poster Previews (30 seconds each) Chaired by Babu Pillai (Intel Labs, ISTC-CC, Research Scientist)
12:00 - 1:20 pm	Lunch / Poster Session 1
1:20 - 2:40 pm	Poster Session 2
2:40 - 4:20 pm	Research Talks Session 2 Mahadev Satyanarayanan (Satya) (CMU) What's New with Cloudlets Wyatt Lloyd (was Princeton, PhD student; will be USC) Stronger Semantics for Low-Latency Geo-Replicated Storage Iulian Moraru (CMU, PhD student) There Is More Consensus in Egalitarian Parliaments Eric Xing (CMU) More Effective Distributed ML via a Stale Synchronous Parallel Parameter Server
4:20 - 4:40 pm	Break
4:40 - 5:55 pm	Research Talks Session 3 Ling Liu (Georgia Tech) Scaling Big Data Processing with Utility-aware Distributed Data Partitioning Jiri Simsa (CMU, PhD student) Parrot + dBug: Fast and Reliable Multithreading Carlos Guestrin (U. Washington) What’s New with GraphLab
5:55 - 6:15 pm	Minutes of Madness Chaired by Michael Kaminsky (Intel Labs, ISTC-CC, Research Scientist)
6:15 - 6:25 pm	Group Photo
6:30 - 9:00 pm	Reception / Dinner Pittsburgh Athletic Club 4215 5th Avenue Pittsburgh, PA 15213

Friday, November 8 Event Location Robert Mehrabian Collaborative Innovation Center (RMCIC), 4th floor, #410 Carnegie Mellon University
8:30 - 8:50 am	Continental breakfast
8:50 - 9:00 am	Welcoming Remarks Phil Gibbons / Greg Ganger
9:00 - 9:45 am	Keynote Speaker Rich Uhlig (Intel Labs, Executive Sponsor for ISTC-CC, Intel Fellow) Highlights of New Technologies Coming from Intel
9:45 - 10:35 am	Research Talks Session 4 Karsten Schwan (Georgia Tech) NVM and Hetero Systems Onur Mutlu (CMU) Rethinking Memory System Design for Data-Intensive Computing
10:35 - 10:55 am	Break
10:55 am - 11:45 pm	Research Talks Session 5 Dave Andersen (CMU) Fast Networked Key-Value Stores and Cuckoo Hashing Ali Ghodsi (UC Berkeley, visiting scholar) Hierarchical Scheduling for Diverse Datacenter Workloads
11:45 - 12:30 pm	Keynote Talk Pradeep Dubey (Intel Labs, Managing Sponsor for ISTC-Big Data, Intel Fellow) Data Intensive Computing: Challenges and Opportunities
MAIN RETREAT TRACK:
12:30 - 2:15 pm	Lunch with Birds-of-a-Feather Breakouts Breakouts chaired by Mike Kozuch (Intel Labs, ISTC-CC, Principal Engineer)
2:15 - 3:00 pm	Keynote Talk Myles Wilde (Intel, Datacenter and Connected Systems Group) Intel Quark and the Internet of Things
3:00 - 3:20 pm	All-hands Brainstorming Moderated by Mike Kozuch
BoA / INTEL TRACK:
12:30 - 3:20 pm	Board of Advisors meeting (includes Lunch)
3:20 - 3:30 pm	Break
3:30 - 4:45 pm	Intel-only Strategy meeting (All Intel stakeholders invited)

Pittsburgh Accommodations

The ISTC has several rooms on hold at each of the hotels listed below. When you call the hotel to make reservations, tell them that you'd like a room booked for the ISTC Retreat (or quote the appropriate code listed below). You may also book extra nights at the preferred rate if you request them at the time of your booking. If there are any problems or questions, please contact .

NOTE: Evening gatherings (dinners on Wed and Thurs) will be held at or near the Wyndham University Center.

WYNDHAM UNIVERSITY CENTER (most convenient) 100 Lytton Avenue Pittsburgh, PA 15213 412-682-6200 - Reservations 412-681-4749 - Fax	Rooms can be booked online at www.wyndham.com. Enter Pittsburgh, PA, Enter dates, Enter group code 11066841IN, then click Find. Next select Wyndham University Center (100 Lytton Ave). Group rate is $112/night Cutoff date is October 13.
COURTYARD MARRIOTT - SHADYSIDE 5308 Liberty Avenue Pittsburgh, PA 15224 1-800-321-2211 - Reservations 412-683-3113 - Reservations 412-683-3133 - Fax	Details TBA
HILTON GARDEN 3454 Forbes Avenue Pittsburgh, PA 15213 412-683-2040 - Reservations 412-688-1986 - Fax	Details TBA

Transportation

Most of the hotels we have listed above have shuttle transportation to CMU available. Please request that you be dropped off on the west end of Frew Street, then refer to the attached map for directions to the CIC Building. There are several options available for getting to and from the airport:

Rental Car: Available at the airport from all the major companies.

Taxi Service (~$50 each way)

Yellow Cab: 412-321-8100
Cab Service: 412-855-4484

Limousine Service

Airport Sedan Service (Larry Waite)
Advance reservations are required, ~$55 each way
Contact Larry Waite, 412-401-LIMO (5466)

Gateway Limo
Rates: $54.00 from the airport to Downtown, Oakland, Shadyside, and Squirrel Hill (sedan). The rate for a van, a 14 passenger vehicle, is $78.00 per hour. Mention CMU when making a reservation.
Call the office at 412-782-5800 or 1-800-390-1222 (phones answered 24/7) for reservations.

Supershuttle - book online

Shared van - $23 each way, $8 per additional passenger
Private van - $115 each way
Executive sedan - $60 each way

Airport Shuttle (PATransit 28X - Airport Flyer) ($3.75 each way, exact change)
Leaves CMU from the corner of Forbes and Morewood Avenues every 20 minutes starting at 4:25 a.m., last shuttle at 10:55 p.m. Shuttle leaves the airport from the arrivals level, door #6, starting at 5:20 a.m. approximately every 30 minutes.

MAPS

Location of the CIC Building
Directions to CMU from the airport
Map of walk from Holiday Inn to CMU campus (about a 15 minute walk)

Contacts

ISTC Administrative Manager
Carnegie Mellon University
4720 Forbes Avenue - CIC 410
PITTSBURGH, PA 15213-3891

T (412)268-2476

Academic PI, ISTC-CC
Electrical & Computer Engineering
Carnegie Mellon University
4720 Forbes Avenue - CIC 2209
Pittsburgh, PA 15213-3891

T (412) 268-1297
F (412) 268-3010

Intel PI, ISTC-CC
Carnegie Mellon University, ISTC-CC
CIC 4th Floor
4720 Forbes Avenue
Pittsburgh, PA 15213

T (412) 268-6215