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2nd Greater Chicago Area System Research Workshop (GCASR) 2013
Northwestern University, Evanston IL -- May 3rd, 2013Workshop Program
We are pleased to announce that the final program will be composed of 1 keynote presentation, 15 oral presentations, and 39 poster presentations (separated into session 1 and session 2). We have 57 workshop presenters, representing 10 different institutions (ANL, DePaul, Google, IIT, Northwestern, Notre Dame, Purdue, UChicago, UIC, and UIUC). The workshop will start at 8AM with breakfast, and will end at 6:15PM.
Keynote Presentation
- Pete Beckman, Argonne National Laboratory
Oral Presentations
| Time | Description |
| 8:00 - 8:30 | Breakfast |
| 8:30 - 8:40 |
Opening Remarks Nikos Hardavellas, Northwestern Ioan Raicu, IIT |
| 8:40 - 9:25 |
Keynote Pete Beckman, ANL |
| Session 1: Architecture, Embedded and Reconfigurable Systems | |
| 9:25 - 9:50 |
The 10x10 Project: Can we have both extreme energy efficiency and programmability? Andrew A. Chien, UChicago |
| 9:50 - 10:15 |
Collectively Achieve Fairest Distribution of Discrete Resources
with Limited Sharing: Complexity and Protocols Wenjing Rao, UIC |
| 10:15 - 10:30 | Break |
| Session 2: HPC, Cloud, and Warehouse-scale Computing | |
| 10:30 - 10:55 |
Warehouse-scale Computing: Challenges and Opportunities Nicholas Kidd, Google |
| 10:55 - 11:20 |
Scaling Up Without Blowing Up Douglas Thain, Notre Dame |
| 11:20 - 11:45 |
The Case for Limping-Hardware Tolerant Clouds
Haryadi Gunawi, UChicago |
| 11:45 - 12:10 |
Toward Smart HPC via Active Learning and Intelligent Scheduling Zhiling Lan, IIT |
| 12:10 - 12:55 | Lunch |
| 12:55 - 1:40 |
Poster Session 1 Distributed Systems and Storage |
| Session 3: Networking and Storage | |
| 1:40 - 2:05 |
Pushing experiments to the Internet's edge
Fabian E. Bustamante, Northwestern |
| 2:05 - 2:30 |
Increasing Network Resiliency by Optimally Assigning Diverse
Variants to Routing Nodes Cristina Nita-Rotaru, Purdue |
| 2:30 - 2:55 |
Parallel Networks and Storage for Predictable End-to-End Data
Movement Eun-Sung Jung, ANL |
| 2:55 - 3:20 |
System Design Considerations of Big Data Processing
Xian-He Sun, IIT |
| 3:20 - 4:05 |
Break Poster Session 2 Architecture, Data-bases, Networking, OS, Programming Languages, and Security |
| Session 4: Operating Systems and Security | |
| 4:05 - 4:30 |
Recent Research in the V3VEE Project Peter Dinda, Northwestern |
| 4:30 - 4:55 |
Ethos: A Layered Approach to Secure Applications Jon A Solworth, UIC |
| 4:55 - 5:20 |
DroidChameleon: Evaluating Android Anti-malware against
Transformation Attacks Yan Chen, Northwestern |
| Session 5: Programming Languages and Database Systems | |
| 5:20 - 5:45 |
Diderot: a Domain-Specific Language for Portably Parallel
Scientific Visualization and Image Analysis Gordon Kindlmann, UChicago |
| 5:45 - 6:10 |
The (Potential) Perks of Integrating Provenance Support into
Database Engines Boris Glavic, IIT |
| 6:10 |
Closing Remarks Nikos Hardavellas, Northwestern Ioan Raicu, IIT |
Poster Session 1
Distributed Systems and Storage
| Title | Name | Institution |
| A Decoupled Execution Paradigm for Data-Intensive High-End Computing | Yanlong Yin | IIT |
| Distributed Kev-Value Store on Cloud | Tonglin Li | IIT |
| Enabling and Optimizing Parallel File Write in HDFS | Xi Yang | IIT |
| FusionFS: a distributed file system for large scale data-intensive computing | Dongfang Zhao | IIT |
| HPC Analytics for Extreme Scale Computing | Li Yu | IIT |
| MATRIX: MAny-Task computing execution fabRIc at eXascales | Anupam Rajendran | IIT |
| Measuring Power Consumption on IBM Blue Gene/Q | Sean Wallace | IIT |
| NoVoHT: a Lightweight Dynamic Persistent NoSQL Key/Value Store | *Kevin Brandstatter | IIT |
| Power-Aware Job Scheduling on Production HPC Systems | Zhou Zhou | IIT |
| Toward Petascale Cosmology Simulations | Jingjin Wu | IIT |
| Towards a Provenance-aware Distributed Filesystem | Chen Shou | IIT |
| Towards Distributed Batch Scheduling | Xiaobing Zhou | IIT |
| Understanding the cost of the cloud for scientific applications | Iman Sadooghi | IIT |
| Community sensing under (soft) control | John Rula | Northwestern |
| Blockus: Efficient Out-of-Core Computation Using Blocks | Erik Bodzsar | UChicago |
| Exploiting Global View for Resilience (GVR) | Hajime Fujita | UChicago |
| The Global View Resilience Model | Zachary Rubenstein | UChicago |
| Linking and Loading Scientific Workflows | Casey Robinson | Notre Dame |
| Scaling Work Queue for the Cloud with Hierarchy | Michael Albrecht | Notre Dame |
| Software Engineering Challenges and Tools in Distributed Computing Workspace for Civil Engineering Applications | Peter Sempolinski | Notre Dame |
Poster Session 2
Architecture, Data-bases, Networking, OS, Programming Languages, and Security
| Title | Name | Institution |
| Mastering chaos with cost-effective sampling | Mona Rahimi | DePaul |
| Accelerating Scientific Workflow Applications with GPUs | *Dustin Shahidehpour | IIT |
| Enabling Dynamic Memory Management Support for MTC on NVIDIA GPUs | *Ben Grimmer | IIT |
| GeMTC: GPU enabled Many-Task Computing | Scott J. Krieder | IIT |
|
Understanding the Costs of Many-Task Computing Workloads on Intel Xeon Phi Coprocessors |
*Jeffrey Johnson | IIT |
| Characterizing Broadband Services with Dasu | Zachary Bischof | Northwestern |
| Elastic Fidelity: Trading-off Computational Accuracy for Energy Reduction | Georgios Tziantzioulis | Northwestern |
| Experiments at the Internet’s Edge with Dasu | Mario A. Sanchez | Northwestern |
|
Galaxy: Pushing the Power and Bandwidth Walls with Optically Connected Disintegrated Processors |
Yigit Demir | Northwestern |
| Shifting GEARS to Enable Guest-context Virtual Services | Kyle Hale | Northwestern |
| Understanding Timing Errors Patterns | Yuanbo Fan | Northwestern |
| VMM-based Emulation of Intel Hardware Transactional Memory | Maciej Swiech | Northwestern |
| Compiler optimization for massively parallel data flow | Timothy Armstrong | UChicago |
| The 10x10 Project: Can we have both extreme energy efficiency and programmability? | Raihan ur Rasool | UChicago |
| When is Multi-version Checkpointing Needed? | Guoming Lu | UChicago |
| MinimaLT: Minimal Latency Networking Through Better Security | Xu Zhang | UIC |
| Scalable Authentication Infrastructure | Wenyuan Fei | UIC |
| Simple and Secure Networking | Yaohua Li | UIC |
| Automatic Memory Deduplication Support in Hypervisor | Fangzhou Yao | UIUC |
Note that * denotes undergraduate students.