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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.
ISTC–CC January 2012 Status Report
Summary:
Fairly quiet month as many students and faculty on vacation. Despite this, ISTC-CC researchers had a strong showing at EuroSys'12, the top European computer systems conference, with 4 of the 27 accepted papers coming from the ISTC-CC. This is notable given the low acceptance rate for EuroSys'12 (27 out of 178 submissions). Onur Mutlu's paper was selected for the IEEE Micro special issue on the Top Picks of the 2011 Computer Architecture conferences. Michael Kaminsky accepted an invitation to be the general chair for SOSP'13, the top computer systems conference.
Details:
ISTC Mission: Four inter-related research pillars (themes) architected to create a strong foundation for cloud computing of the future
The research agenda of the ISTC-CC is composed of the following four themes
- Specialization: Explores specialization as a primary means for order of magnitude improvements in efficiency (e.g., energy), including use of emerging technologies like non-volatile memory and specialized cores.
- Automation: Addresses cloud’s particular automation challenges, focusing on order of magnitude efficiency gains from smart resource allocation/scheduling and greatly improved problem diagnosis capabilities.
- Big Data: Addresses the critical need for cloud computing to extend beyond traditional big data usage (primarily, search) to efficiently and effectively support Big Data analytics, including the continuous ingest, integration, and exploitation of live data feeds (e.g., video or twitter).
- To theEdge: Explores new frameworks for edge/cloud cooperation that can efficiently and effectively exploit billions of context-aware clients and enable cloud-assisted client applications whose execution spans client devices, edge-local cloud resources, and core cloud resources.
Participants
Academic PI: Greg Ganger(CMU)
Executive Sponsor: Wen Hann Wang (CSR)
Managing Sponsor: Rich Uhlig (CSR-SAL)
Program Director: Jeff Parkhurst (APR)
Intel PI: Phil Gibbons
Intel Researchers:Michael Kiminsky, Mike Kozuch, Babu Pillai
AcademicPartners: Dave Andersen, Guy Blelloch, Garth Gibson, Carlos Guestrin, Mor Harchol-Balter, Todd Mowry, Onur Mutlu, Priya Narasimhan, M. Satyanarayanan, and Dan Siewiorek (CMU); Mike Freedman, Kai Li, and Margaret Martonosi (Princeton); Anthony Joseph, Randy Katz, and Ion Stoica (UC Berkeley); Ada Gavrilovska, Ling Liu, Calton Pu, Karsten Schwan, and Sudha Yalamanchili (GA Tech).
Technical highlights
- FAWN rack/cluster reached a new milestone with reduced wiring that eliminates ¾ of the power bricks (one brick now powers four nodes) and replaces longer Ethernet cables with much shorter ones. The 88 nodes draw roughly 1600W at idle. Some pictures are online.
- Wyatt Lloyd (Princeton grad student) spent a week visiting Facebook to learn about their wide-area storage infrastructure and to discuss how COPS scalable causal consistency might apply in their environment.
Schedule of upcoming events and milestones
- June 21-22: The next Open Cirrus Summit will be held in Beijing, June 21-22. The CFP is posted at http://labs.chinamobile.com/cloud/opencirrus/OCsummit12, and the submission date is March 2. All are invited to submit short papers. Michael Kozuch is co-PC chair.
- June 26-27: ISTC showcase, to be held June 26 in San Francisco (as part of Research@Intel) and June 27 in Santa Clara.
Sponsor group interaction highlights
- Jeff Parkhurst presented the ISTC-CC research agenda and
specifically the pillar "To the edge" with Greg Boitano (BCPD, client
aware marketing for Cloud 2015), CV Vick (PCCG, responsible for business
client cloud strategy), and Dominic Fulginiti (PCCG Architect). Discussion
focused on "balancing the load" between the cloud/cloudlet and the client
device to capitalize on the performance advantage of IA products over
other offerings. This message was communicated back to the relevant ISTC
researchers in both Embedded and Cloud centers. - Phil Gibbons attended the Intel-NTU CCC Champion-PI meeting in Taipei, Taiwan, giving a talk on ISTC-CC and participating in a panel. The CCC is a large research center devoted to the future of machine-to-machine (M2M).
- Greg Ganger (CMU), Randy Katz (UCB), Michael Kozuch (IL) and students from both Berkeley and CMU launched an analysis of new cluster scheduling traces made available by Google. This analysis should inform several components of ISTC-CC's scheduling research. This is in addition to pushing forward the CMU-UCB-IL's collaboration on large cluster scheduling.
- Mike Kozuch attended ISTC-SC workshop in Berkeley.
- Elmer Garduno (CMU grad student) presented "Using visual signatures for Hadoop diagnosis" at Intel Hadoop/Big-Data Summit in Portland, OR.
- Jeff Parkhurst presented an overview of the Cloud Computing Center with additional focus on the Big Data pillar to Jason Dai(SSG), Rajiv Mathur and Greg Leeming.
Other ISTC highlights
- Onur Mutlu's (CMU) paper is selected for the IEEE Micro special issue on the Top Picks of the 2011 Computer Architecture conferences.
- Michael Kaminsky (IL) accepted an invitation to be the general
chair for SOSP'13. Babu Pillai (IL) has agreed to be the local
arrangements chair.
List of publications
[List of the publications that were PUBLISHED by center researchers during
the month. This does not include submissions or acceptances, just
publications.]
Note: These three journal papers were left off from earlier MSRs:
- "State Monitoring in Cloud Datacenters," Shicong Meng, Ling Liu, and Ting Wang, IEEE Transactions on Knowledge and Data Engineering, Special Issue on Cloud Data Management, Sept 2011
- "Performance Analysis of Network I/O Workloads in Virtualized Data Centers," Yiduo Mei, Ling Liu, Xing Pu, Sankaran Sivathanu, and Xiaoshe Dong, IEEE Transactions on Service Computing, June 2011
- "IdleChat: Enabling High Bandwidth Real-time Applications in
Residential Broadband Networks," Ramya Raghavendra, Michael Kaminsky,
Konstantina Papagiannaki, Srinivasan Seshan, and Elizabeth Belding. In
ACM SIGMOBILE Mobile Computing and Communications Review (MC2R) (invited
paper), July 2011
List of presentations
- Phil Gibbons presented "Intel Science and Technology Center for Cloud Computing" at the Intel-NTU CCC Champion-PI meeting in Taipei, Taiwan
- Elmer Garduno (CMU grad student) presented "Using visual signatures for Hadoop diagnosis" at Intel Hadoop/Big-Data Summit in Portland, OR