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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 Q3 2013 Status Report
Summary:
Publication Highlights: A great quarter for publications, with 46 papers published and another 21 accepted for publication!
- Four papers were accepted to SOSP’13, the top systems conference:
- “There Is More Consensus In Egalitarian Parliaments,” Iulian Moraru, Dave Andersen (CMU) and Michael Kaminsky (Intel)
- “Sparrow: Distributed, Low Latency Scheduling,” Kay Ousterhout, Patrick Wendell, Matei Zaharia and Ion Stoica (UC Berkeley)
- “PARROT: A Practical Runtime for Deterministic, Stable, and Reliable Threads,” Garth Gibson, Randy Bryant (CMU), and co-authors
- “Discretized Streams: Fault-Tolerant Streaming Computation at Scale,” Ion Stoica (UC Berkeley) and co-authors
- Three papers were accepted to SOCC’13, the top cloud computing conference:
- “Hierarchical Scheduling for Diverse Datacenter Workloads,” Ion Stoica (UC Berkeley) and co-authors
- “vTube: Efficient Streaming of Virtual Appliances Over Last-Mile Networks," M. Satyanarayanan (CMU) and co-authors
- “Memory-Efficient GroupBy-Aggregate using Compressed Buffer Trees,” Hrishikesh Amur (GA Tech), Wolfgang Richter, Dave Andersen (CMU), Michael Kaminsky (Intel), Karsten Schwan (GA Tech), Athula Balanachandran, and Erik Zawadzki (CMU)
- Big Learning frameworks: “More Effective Distributed ML via a Stale Synchronous Parallel Parameter Server,” by Greg Ganger, Garth Gibson, Eric Xing (CMU), Phil Gibbons (Intel), and CMU co-authors was one of only 20 papers (out of 1420 submissions) accepted for full oral presentation to NIPS'13.
Honors Highlights:
- Margaret Martonosi (Princeton) has been named the recipient of this year's Anita Borg Institute ABIE Technical Leadership Award.
- Karsten Schwan, Matt Wolf (GA Tech), and colleagues at Oak Ridge and elsewhere were recipients of the 2013 R&D100 award, for developing ADIOS, one of the top 100 technology products of the year.
- Ling Liu (GA Tech) and co-authors won the Best Paper Award at ICWS’13.
- $2.8M in Amplifying Funding from NSF: Four new NSF grants were awarded to Dave Andersen (CMU), Michael Kaminsky (Intel), Mor Harchol-Balter (CMU), Sudha Yalamanchili (GA Tech), Guy Blelloch (CMU) and Phil Gibbons (Intel), totally over $2.8M!
Intel Interactions Highlights:
- Kiryong Ha (CMU grad student) and Babu Pillai (Intel) implemented an initial version of OpenStack++ for Cloudlets, complete with documentation and walk through examples. This integration into OpenStack is a key first step in a pilot trial, working with Jack Weast (PCCG) and Jim Blakley (DCSG), to demonstrate the benefits of using Cloudlets in Intel’s HomeCloud gateway platforms.
- Celeste Fralick (ISG) visited ISTC-CC and ISTC-EC on September 12 and left excited about technology transfer opportunities.
- At least 4 ISTC-CC grad students interned at Intel this summer. Several ISTC-CC students had Blue Badge offers from Intel, with Min Lee (GA Tech) accepting. Another current Intel employee, Dulloor Rao, is getting a PhD under Karsten Schwan (GA Tech).
- Thanks to support from Intel, Garth Gibson and Greg Ganger (CMU) developed and launched a new grad course “Advanced Cloud Computing” (www.cs.cmu.edu/~15719).
Technical highlights
- Publications summary for the past quarter:
- 21 papers accepted: to SOSP’13 (4 papers), SOCC’13 (3 papers), MICRO’13 (2 papers), ICCD’13 (2 papers), NIPS’13, ICDM’13, SC’13, DAPD’13, BigData’13, Cluster’13, InfoVis’13, INPLAN’13, TRIOS’13, and the PEIS journal.
- 46 papers published: in ISCA’13 (3 papers), KDD’13 (3 papers), SIGMOD’13 (3 papers), Mobisys’13 (2 papers), SIGCOMM’13 (2 papers), ICDCS’13 (2 papers), ICWS'13 (2 papers), IRI’13 (2 papers), MSPC’13 (2 papers), SPAA’13 (2 papers), USENIX;login (2 papers), HotCloud’13, HotStorage’13, PACT’13, SIGMETRICS’13, USENIX ATC’13, VLDB’13, DAC’13, VTDC’13, WEED’13, CLOUD’13, SCC’13, BigData’13, HPG’13, DSN’13, GRADES’13, HPDC’13, OR Letters, IEEE Trans. Comp, IEEE Trans. Mobile Comp, IEEE TKDE, and IEEE Software.
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Open Source code releases this past quarter included:
- Iulian Moraru (CMU grad student), David Andersen (CMU), and Michael Kaminsky (Intel) released the source code to EPaxos at https://github.com/efficient/epaxos
- Bin Fan (CMU grad student), David Andersen (CMU), and Michael Kaminsky (Intel) released the source code for CuckooFilter at https://github.com/efficient/cuckoofilter
- [Big Learning frameworks] A paper by Qirong Ho, James Cipar, Henggang Cui, Seunghak Lee, Jin Kyu Kim (CMU grad students), Phillip B. Gibbons (Intel), Garth Gibson, Gregory Ganger, and Eric Xing (CMU) entitled “More Effective Distributed ML via a Stale Synchronous Parallel Parameter Server” was accepted for full oral presentation in the 27th Neural Information Processing Systems Conference (NIPS'13). Only 20 of 1420 submissions were selected for full oral presentation.
- [Fast key-value store] Hyeontaek Lim, Dongsu Han (CMU grad students), David Andersen (CMU), and Michael Kaminsky are working on a submission to NSDI’13 about their very fast, networked key-value store. Initial results are very promising: a single 16-core system with 8x 10 GbE NICs can serve over 70 M small key-value operations/second under various configurations, significantly out-performing existing systems.
- GA Tech’s research continued with its two areas of focus. 1) For big data and cloud applications: understanding the requirements of those applications, developing and experimenting with new software support for this class of applications, exploring automation and specialization opportunities (including efficient online system monitoring and management), and mapping such applications to future machine technologies. 2) For multicore platforms, continued work with memory-intensive and accelerator-based applications: understanding their unique requirements, investigating hypervisor-level support for meeting those requirements, and in related work (funded by an Intel OCA grant on Non-Volatile Memory Technologies) exploring the use of next generation NVM.
- [Best Paper Award] Ling Liu (GA Tech) and co-authors won Best Paper Award in IEEE ICWS 2013: Bhuvan Bamba, Kun-Lung Wu, Bugra Gedik, Ling Liu. "SLIM: A Scalable Location-Sensitive Information Monitoring Service'', Proceedings of the 20th IEEE International Conference on Web Services (ICWS'13), June-July 2013.
- [Automated Cloud Management] Two new papers from GA Tech describe two different parts of Deepal Jayasinghe’s (GA Tech) thesis directly addressing the ‘Specialization’ and ‘Big Data’ verticals of the Cloud ISTC. Their Paper “An Automated Approach to Create, Store, and Analyze Large-scale Experimental Data in Clouds” won the Best Student Paper Award at IRI’13.
- [Big Data and Privacy] Margaret Martonosi (Princeton) and co-authors paper on differential privacy and mobility data, to appear in IEEE Big Data’13, received good press coverage from the MIT Tech Review article http://www.technologyreview.com/news/514676/how-to-mine-cell-phone-data-without-invading-your-privacy/
Schedule of upcoming events and milestones
- Oct 1-4: 4th ACM Symposium on Cloud Computing, Santa Clara, CA (www.socc2013.org)
- Oct 28-30: 21st Annual Parallel Data Lab (PDL) Retreat, Bedford Springs, PA (www.pdl.cmu.edu/Retreat/retreat13.shtml)
- Nov 3-6: 24th ACM Symposium on Operating Systems Principles, near Pittsburgh, PA (http://sigops.org/sosp/sosp13)
- Nov 7–8: 3rd Annual ISTC-CC Retreat will be held at CMU in Pittsburgh, PA
Sponsor group interaction highlights
- Kiryong Ha (CMU grad student) and Babu Pillai (Intel) implemented an initial version of OpenStack++ for Cloudlets, complete with documentation and walk through examples. This is an extension to OpenStack that incorporates mechanisms for VM synthesis and includes most of the optimizations they have developed for accelerating VM offload. They are releasing the system open source on GitHub. This integration into OpenStack is a key first step in a pilot trial, working with Jack Weast (PCCG) and Jim Blakley (DCSG), to demonstrate the benefits of using Cloudlets in the HomeCloud gateway platforms that Intel is shipping to Comcast.
- Celeste Fralick, a PE in the Intelligent Solutions Division of Intel’s Intelligent Systems Group, visited CMU on September 12, making a presentation on ISD’s emerging plans for distributed analytics solutions, and meeting 1:1 with ISTC-CC and ISTC-EC researchers including Phil Gibbons and Babu Pillai. She left excited about technology transfer opportunities.
- Michael Kaminsky, Phil Gibbons and Jeff Parkhurst are meeting regularly with Jeff Sedayao (IT) and Munir Ghamrawi (SSG) to plan technology transfer evaluation of the EPaxos protocol developed by Iulian Moraru (CMU grad student), Dave Andersen (CMU), and Michael Kaminsky.
- Dan Lustig (Princeton), a student of Margaret Martonosi, was awarded an Intel Graduate Fellowship for 2013-2014. He just finished up an internship with Dr. Joel Emer and others at Intel VSSAD near Boston.
- Three Georgia Tech Ph.D. students worked at Intel as summer interns in Summer 2013:
- Alex Merritt worked on topics in display virtualization, with Paul Diefenbaugh, in Rich Uhlig’s group (IL/CSR/SAL)
- Sudarsun Kannan worked on topics in non-volatile memory, with Sanjay Kumar, also in Rich Uhlig’s group
- Dipanjan Sengupta worked on topics in asynchronous parallelism with Intel’s Exascale Product group
- Several Intel employees are engaged in Ph.D. research with Georgia Tech:
- Intel employee Dulloor Rao is working toward his Ph.D. degree with Karsten Schwan
- Intel employee Min Lee is completing his Ph.D. thesis, with Karsten Schwan, on resource management for dealing with next generation memory structures.
- Matt Wolf is continuing his consistent engagement with Intel on topics in HPC and education, including joint work on curriculum development for security topics.
- Michael Kozuch and Jeff Parkhurst organized a discussion between faculty and students of the ISTC-CC and ISTC-BD and key stakeholders in SAL around the use of Intel’s NVM SDVs for research purposes. Several of the faculty were intrigued by the potential of the tools, and plans for new research projects are under development.
Other ISTC highlights
- Margaret Martonosi (Princeton) has been named the recipient of this year's Anita Borg Institute ABIE Technical Leadership Award. http://www.marketwire.com/press-release/anita-borg-institute-announces-winners-2013-grace-hopper-celebration-ghc-abie-awards-1816198.htm http://gracehopper.org/2013/awards/2013-award-winners/
- Karsten Schwan and Matt Wolf (GA Tech) were co-recipients of the 2013 R&D100 award, for development of the ADIOS system for high performance I/O, led by a research team at Oak Ridge National Labs, in collaboration with additional researchers at Rutgers Univ. and Sandia Labs. Called the “Oscars of Innovation”, the R&D100 Awards recognizes and celebrates the top 100 technology products of the year. http://www.rd100awards.com/
- [Amplifying Funding] Four new NSF grants, totaling over $2.8M:
- David Andersen (CMU) and Michael Kaminsky (Intel) won an NSF award for about $600k to continue work on using optical circuit switches for datacenter work, joint with UCSD. This is a follow-on to Michael and David’s earlier work from a few years ago.
- Mor Harchol-Balter (CMU), PI, along with Mustafa Akan, Co-PI, received a new grant, NSF-CMMI: Priority Pricing for Profit Maximization given Strategies, Delay-Sensitive Customers with Continuum of Types in the amount of $290,000, August 2013 – August 2016.
- Sudha Yalamanchili (GA Tech), PI/PD, Co-PIs: H. Kim and R. Vuduc, “Optimizing Heterogeneous Platforms for Unstructured Parallelism,” $735,055, National Science Foundation, September 2013-August 2016.
- Guy Blelloch (CMU) and Phil Gibbons (Intel), along with Charles Leiserson and Jeremy Fineman, were awarded an NSF grant for $1.2 million, August 2013-August 2016.
- Garth Gibson, Greg Ganger, Majd Sakr, Raja Sambasivan introduced a new graduate course at CMU, Advanced Cloud Computing (15-719/18-847b), being offered in the Fall of 2013. www.cs.cmu.edu/~15719 Materials will be made public. Initial enrollment is 51, mostly Masters students and PhD students, with a few bachelor students. Intel provided partial support for the development of this course.
- Mor Harchol-Balter (CMU)’s book, “Performance Modeling and Design of Computer Systems: Queueing Theory in Action” is available for purchase at http://www.amazon.com/Performance-Modeling-Design-Computer-Systems/dp/1107027500/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1361489303&sr=8-1&keywords=Harchol-Balter
- Guy Blelloch (CMU) co-organized the NSF Workshop on High-Level Programming Models for Parallelism in Washington, DC, July 2013.
- Guy Blelloch (CMU) was General Chair for the 25th ACM Symposium on Parallelism in Algorithms and Architectures (SPAA’13), July 2013.
- Garth Gibson agreed to be co-Program Chair for the 2014 USENIX Annual Technical Conference (with Nickolai Zeldovich, MIT), to be held June 19-20, 2014.
List of publications
- “TABLEFS: Enhancing Metadata Efficiency in the Local File System,” Kai Ren and Garth Gibson, 2013 USENIX Annual Technical Conference (ATC’13), June 2013.
- “Scalable Crowd-Sourcing of Video from Mobile Devices,” Pieter Simoens, Yu Xiao, Padmanabhan Pillai, Zhuo Chen, Kiryong Ha, and Mahadev Satyanarayanan, 11th International Conference on Mobile Systems, Applications, and Services (MobiSys’13), June 2013.
- “Just-in-Time Provisioning for Cyber Foraging,” Kiryong Ha, Padmanabhan Pillai, Wolfgang Richter, Yoshihisa Abe, and Mahadev Satyanarayanan, 11th International Conference on Mobile Systems, Applications, and Services (MobiSys’13), June 2013.
- “A Hidden Cost of Virtualization when Scaling Multicore Applications,” Xiaoning Ding, Michael A. Kozuch, and Phillip B. Gibbons, 5th USENIX Workshop on Hot Topics in Cloud Computing (HotCloud'13), June 2013.
- “Specialized Storage for Big Numeric Time Series,” llari Shafer, Raja R. Sambasivan, Anthony Rowe, and Gregory R. Ganger, 5th Usenix Workshop on Hot Topics in Storage and File Systems (HotStorage’13), June 2013.
- “Shark: SQL and rich analytics at scale”, Reynold S. Xin, Josh Rosen, Matei Zaharia, Michael J. Franklin, Scott Shenker, and Ion Stoica, ACM SIGMOD International Conference on Management of Data (SIGMOD’13), June 2013.
- “Bolt-on causal consistency,” Peter Bailis, Ali Ghodsi, Joseph M. Hellerstein, and Ion Stoica, ACM SIGMOD International Conference on Management of Data (SIGMOD’13), June 2013.
- “PBS at work: advancing data management with consistency metrics,” Peter Bailis, Shivaram Venkataraman, Michael J. Franklin, Joseph M. Hellerstein, and Ion Stoica, ACM SIGMOD International Conference on Management of Data (SIGMOD’13), June 2013. Demo paper.
- “GraphX: a resilient distributed graph system on Spark,” Reynold S. Xin, Joseph E. Gonzalez, Michael J. Franklin, and Ion Stoica: First International Workshop on Graph Data Management Experiences and Systems (GRADES’13), June 2013.
- “I/O Acceleration with Pattern Detection,” Jun He, John Bent, Aaron Torres, Gary Grider, Garth Gibson, Carlos Maltzahn, and Xian-He Sun, 22nd International ACM Symposium on High Performance Parallel and Distributed Computing (HPDC'13), June 2013.
- “Exact Analysis of the M/M/k/setup Class of Markov Chains via Recursive Renewal Reward," Anshul Gandhi, Sherwin Doroudi, Mor Harchol-Balter, and Alan Scheller-Wolf, ACM SIGMETRICS 2013 Conference on Measurement and Modeling of Computer Systems (SIGMETRICS’13), June 2013.
- “Multi-tenancy on GPGPU-based Servers,” Dipanjan Sengupta, Raghavendra Belapure and Karsten Schwan, 7th International Workshop on Virtualization Technologies in Distributed Computing (VTDC'13), June 2013.
- “A Case for Efficient Hardware-Software Cooperative Coordinated Management of Storage and Memory,” Justin Meza, Yixin Luo, Samira Khan, Jishen Zhao, Yuan Xie, and Onur Mutlu, 5th Workshop on Energy-Efficient Design (WEED’13), June 2013.
- “An Experimental Study of Data Retention Behavior in Modern DRAM Devices: Implications for Retention Time Profiling Mechanisms," Jamie Liu, Ben Jaiyen, Yoongu Kim, Chris Wilkerson, and Onur Mutlu, 40th ACM International Symposium on Computer Architecture (ISCA’13), June 2013.
- “Utility-Based Acceleration of Multithreaded Applications on Asymmetric CMPs,” Jose A. Joao, M. Aater Suleman, Onur Mutlu, and Yale N. Patt, 40th ACM International Symposium on Computer Architecture (ISCA’13), June 2013.
- “Orchestrated Scheduling and Prefetching for GPGPUs,” Adwait Jog, Onur Kayiran, Asit K. Mishra, Mahmut T. Kandemir, Onur Mutlu, Ravishankar Iyer, and Chita R. Das, 40th ACM International Symposium on Computer Architecture (ISCA’13), June 2013.
- “A Heterogeneous Multiple Network-on-Chip Design: An Application-Aware Approach," Asit K. Mishra, Onur Mutlu, and Chita R. Das, 50th Design Automation Conference (DAC’13), June 2013.
- “Software-Controlled Transparent Management of Heterogeneous Memory Resources in Virtualized Systems,'' Min Lee, Vishal Gupta, and Karsten Schwan, 8th ACM SIGPLAN Workshop on Memory Systems Performance and Correctness (MSPC’13), June 2013.
- “Program-Centric Cost Models for Locality,” Guy E. Blelloch, Jeremy Fineman, Phillip B. Gibbons, and Harsha Vardhan Simhadri, 8th ACM SIGPLAN Workshop on Memory Systems Performance and Correctness (MSPC’13), June 2013.
- “Automating the debugging of datacenter applications with ADDA,” Cristian Zamfir, Gautam Altekar, and Ion Stoica, 43rd Annual IEEE/IFIP International Conference on Dependable Systems and Networks (DSN’13), June 2013.
- “Residency Aware Inter-VM Communication in Virtualized Cloud: Performance Measurement and Analysis,” Qi Zhang, Ling Liu, Yi Ren, Kisung Lee, Yuzhe Tang, Xu Zhao, and Yang Zhou. 6th IEEE International Conference on Cloud Computing (CLOUD’13), June-July, 2013.
- “Secure Cloud Storage Service with An Efficient DOKS Protocol,” ZhengTao Jiang and Ling Liu, IEEE 10th International Conference on Services Computing (SCC’13), June-July 2013.
- “SLIM: A Scalable Location-Sensitive Information Monitoring Service'', Bhuvan Bamba, Kun-Lung Wu, Bugra Gedik, and Ling Liu, 20th IEEE International Conference on Web Services (ICWS'13), June-July 2013. Best Paper Award.
- “Ranking Services by Service Network Structure and Service Attributes,” Yang Zhou, Ling Liu, Chang-Shing Perng, Anca Sailer, Ignacio Silva-Lepe, and Zhiyuan Su, 20th IEEE International Conference on Web Services (ICWS'13), June-July 2013.
- “Performance Overhead Among Three Hypervisors: An Experimental Study using Hadoop Benchmarks,” Jack Li, Qingyang Wang, Deepal Jayasinghe, Junhee Park, Tao Zhu, and Calton Pu, 2nd IEEE International Congress on Big Data (BigData’13), June-July 2013.
- “Cache Topology Aware Mapping of Stream Processing Applications onto CMPs,'' Fang Zheng, Chitra Venkatramani, Karsten Schwan, and Rohit Wagle, 33rd IEEE International Conference on Distributed Computing Systems (ICDCS’13), July 2013.
- “Volley: Violation Likelihood Based State Monitoring for Datacenters,” Shicong Meng, Arun Iyengar, Isabelle Rouvellou and Ling Liu, 33rd IEEE Int. Conf. on Distributed Computing Systems (ICDCS’13), July 2013.
- “Reducing Contention Through Priority Updates,” Julian Shun, Guy E. Blelloch, Jeremy T. Fineman, and Phillip B. Gibbons. 25th ACM Symposium on Parallelism in Algorithms and Architectures (SPAA'13), July 2013.
- “25th ACM Symposium on Parallelism in Algorithms and Architectures (SPAA’13)”, Guy E. Blelloch and Berthold Vöcking (Eds.), July 2013.
- “Efficient BVH Construction via Approximate Agglomerative Clustering,” Yan Gu, Yong He, Kayvon Fatahalian, and Guy E. Blelloch, ACM High Performance Graphics (HPG’13), July 2013.
- “M/G/k with Staggered Setup,” Anshul Gandhi and Mor Harchol-Balter, OR Letters, 41(4), July 2013.
- “A Graph Derivation Based Approach for Measuring and Comparing Structural Semantics of Ontologies,” Yinglong Ma, Ling Liu, Ke Lu, Beihong Jin, and Xiangjie Liu, IEEE Transactions on Knowledge and Data Engineering, July 2013.
- “How Hadoop Clusters Break,” A. Rabkin, R. H. Katz, IEEE Software Magazine, 30(4), July-August 2013.
- “A Short Primer on Causal Consistency,” Wyatt Lloyd, Michael J. Freedman, Michael Kaminsky, and David G. Andersen, USENIX;login, 38(4), August 2013
- “Cuckoo Filter: Better Than Bloom,” Bin Fan, David G. Andersen, and Michael Kaminsky, USENIX;login, 38(4), August 2013.
- “Social Influence Based Clustering of Heterogeneous Information Networks,” Yang Zhou and Ling Liu, 19th ACM SIGKDD Conference on Knowledge Discovery and Data Mining (KDD'13), August 2013.
- “A general bootstrap performance diagnostic,” Ariel Kleiner, Ameet Talwalkar, Sameer Agarwal, Ion Stoica, and Michael I. Jordan, 19th ACM SIGKDD Conference on Knowledge Discovery and Data Mining (KDD'13), August 2013.
- “Representing documents through their readers,” Khalid El-Arini, Min Xu, Emily B. Fox, and Carlos Guestrin, 19th ACM SIGKDD Conference on Knowledge Discovery and Data Mining (KDD'13), August 2013.
- “Leveraging endpoint flexibility in data-intensive clusters,” Mosharaf Chowdhury, Srikanth Kandula, and Ion Stoica, ACM SIGCOMM 2013 Conference (SIGCOMM’13), August 2013.
- “Developing a predictive model of quality of experience for internet video.” Athula Balachandran, Vyas Sekar, Aditya Akella, Srinivasan Seshan, Ion Stoica, and Hui Zhang, ACM SIGCOMM 2013 Conference (SIGCOMM’13), August 2013.
- “TripleBit: a Fast and Compact System for Large Scale RDF Data,” Pingpeng Yuan, Pu Liu, Buwen Wu, Hai Jin, Wenya Zhang, and Ling Liu, 39th International Conference on Very Large Databases (VLDB’13), August 2013.
- “A Fast and Compact Indexing Technique for Moving Objects,” Yonghun Park, Ling Liu, and Jaesoo Yoo, 14th IEEE International Conference on Information Reuse and Integration (IRI’13), August 2013.
- “An Automated Approach to Create, Store, and Analyze Large-scale Experimental Data in Clouds,” Deepal Jayashinghe, Josh Kimball, Siddarth Choudhary, Tao Zhu, and Calton Pu, 14th IEEE International Conference on Information Reuse and Integration (IRI’13), August 2013. Best Student Paper Award.
- “Starchart: Hardware/Software Optimization Using Recursive Partitioning Regression Trees,” Wenhao Jia, Kelly A. Shaw, and Margaret Martonosi, 22nd ACM International Conference on Parallel Architectures and Compilation Techniques (PACT’13), September 2013.
- “Enhanced Monitoring-as-a-Service for Effective Cloud Management,” Shicong Meng and Ling Liu, IEEE Transactions on Computers, 62(9), September 2013.
- “Road-Network Aware Trajectory Clustering: Integrating Locality, Flow and Density,” Binh Han, Ling Liu, and Edward R. Omiecinski, IEEE Transactions on Mobile Computing, September 2013.
List of presentations
In addition to the conference/workshop presentations associated with each of the published conference/workshop papers listed above, we had the following presentations:
- Ling Liu (GA Tech) presented a keynote address "Towards Big Data Analytics as a Service: Exploring Reuse Opportunities" at the 14th IEEE International Conference on Information Reuse and Integration (IRI’13), San Francisco, CA, August 2013.
- Garth Gibson (CMU) presented a keynote talk "Modern Storage Systems: Revolution or Evolution" to the ASME 2013 Conference on Information Storage and Processing Systems (ISPS’13), Santa Clara, CA, June 2013.
- M. Satyanarayanan (CMU) presented a keynote talk at CompArch 2013 conference, Vancouver, BC, June 2013
- Greg Ganger (CMU) gave a keynote talk at EMC University Day on "Exploiting Bounded Staleness for High-Perf 'Big Data' Systems" in June, which introduced a couple of ISTC-CC projects.
- Phil Gibbons (Intel) presented an invited retrospective talk “25 Years of SPAA” at the 25th ACM Symposium on Parallelism in Algorithms and Architectures (SPAA'13), Montreal, Canada, July 2013.
- Mor Harchol-Balter (CMU) presented talks on "Power Management in Data Centers: Theory and Practice" at CMU (Tepper School of Business and Computer Science), at University of Southern California (Computer Science), at Georgia Tech (Computer Science), and at INFORMS-Applied Probability Society.
- Ling Liu and Calton Pu (GA Tech) visited China in the summer 2013, teaching undergraduate students and presenting results on their work at select first-tier Chinese universities.
- Ling Liu (GA Tech) gave an invited talk titled "Big Data and Big Data Technologies from Database Perspective" in Big Data Summer Camp in Peking, China, July 2013.
- Calton Pu (GA Tech) gave an Invited talk in Big Data Summer Camp in Peking, China, July 2013.
- S. Yalamanchili (GA Tech) gave an invited talk, “Scaling Data Warehousing Applications using GPUs,” at theSecond International Workshop on Performance Analysis of Workload Optimized Systems, April 2013.
- Onur Mutlu (CMU) gave an invited talk “Memory Scaling: A Systems Architecture Perspective” at MemCon 2013, Santa Clara, CA, August 2013.
- Onur Mutlu (CMU) gave a memory systems course at HiPEAC ACACES Summer School http://users.ece.cmu.edu/~omutlu/acaces2013-memory.html, July 2013. He also gave invited talks at Bogazici University, Barcelona Supercomputing Center, and INRIA.
- Jeff Parkhurst (Intel) gave a talk at IDF on “Beyond Hadoop MapReduce: Processing Big Data” with Ted Willke and Chris Black (Intel) as co-presenters.
- Jeff Parkhurst (Intel) held a Brown Bag lunch FM on engaging with university research. Lots of great questions and interest.
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 the Edge: 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).