The schedule is also in our Google Calendar.
- Omni-Paxos: Breaking the Barriers of Partial Connectivity (EuroSys’23)
- Authors: Harald Ng, Seif Haridi, Paris Carbone
- What: Multi-Paxos flavor with better tolerance for partial network partitions
- When: August 30th
- Hyrax: Fail-in-Place Server Operation in Cloud Platforms (OSDI’23)
- Authors: Jialun Lyu, Marisa You, Celine Irvene, Mark Jung, Tyler Narmore, Jacob Shapiro, Luke Marshall, Savyasachi Samal, Ioannis Manousakis, Lisa Hsu, Preetha Subbarayalu, Ashish Raniwala, Brijesh Warrier, Ricardo Bianchini, Bianca Schroeder, Daniel S. Berger
- What: “Datacenter stack that enables compute servers with failed components to continue hosting VMs while hiding the underlying degraded capacity and performance”
- When: September 6th
- Aggregate VM: Why Reduce or Evict VM’s Resources When You Can Borrow Them From Other Nodes? (EuroSys’23)
- Authors: Ho-Ren Chuang, Karim Manaouil, Tong Xing, Antonio Barbalace, Pierre Olivier, Balvansh Heerekar, Binoy Ravindran
- What: VMs with resources aggregated across multiple physical hosts
- When: September 13th
- Take Out the TraChe: Maximizing (Tra)nsactional Ca(che) Hit Rate (OSDI’23)
- Authors: Audrey Cheng, David Chu, Terrance Li, Jason Chan, Natacha Crooks, Joseph M. Hellerstein, Ion Stoica
- What: Object hit rate does not matter if transactions still touches non-cached objects.
- When: September 20th
- Chardonnay: Fast and General Datacenter Transactions for On-Disk Databases (OSDI’23)
- Authors: Tamer Eldeeb, Xincheng Xie, Philip A. Bernstein, Asaf Cidon, Junfeng Yang
- What: Another fast 2PC paper
- When: September 27th
- Distributed Transactions at Scale in Amazon DynamoDB (ATC’23)
- Authors: Joseph Idziorek, Alex Keyes, Colin Lazier, Somu Perianayagam, Prithvi Ramanathan, James Christopher Sorenson III, Doug Terry, Akshat Vig
- What: See the title
- When: October 4th
- Palette Load Balancing: Locality Hints for Serverless Functions (EuroSys’23)
- Authors: Mania Abdi, Sam Ginzburg, Charles Lin, Jose M Faleiro, Íñigo Goiri, Gohar Irfan Chaudhry,Ricardo Bianchini, Daniel S. Berger, Rodrigo Fonseca
- What: Data locality hints for better caching in serverless runtimes.
- When: October 18th
- Oakestra: A Lightweight Hierarchical Orchestration Framework for Edge Computing (ATC’23)
- Authors: Giovanni Bartolomeo, Mehdi Yosofie, Simon Bäurle, Oliver Haluszczynski, Nitinder Mohan, Jörg Ott
- What: Orchestration frameworks (e.g. Kubernetes) for the edge
- When: October 25th
- On-demand Container Loading in AWS Lambda (ATC’23)
- Authors: Marc Brooker, Mike Danilov, Chris Greenwood, Phil Piwonka
- What: See the title
- When: November 1st
- Model Checking Guided Testing for Distributed Systems (EuroSys’23)
- Authors: Dong Wang, Wensheng Dou, Yu Gao, Chenao Wu, Jun Wei, Tao Huang
- What: Testing guided by the state space generated by the model checker
- When: November 8th
Reading Group
Our reading group takes place over Zoom every Wednesday at 2:00 pm EST. We have a slack group where we post papers, hold discussions, and most importantly manage Zoom invites to paper discussions. Please join the slack group to get involved!