Summer term papers are here! The list is bellow. Also, here is a Google Calendar.
- Graham: Synchronizing Clocks by Leveraging Local Clock Properties – NSDI’22
- Authors: Ali Najafi, Michael Wei
- What: Better clock sync under failures
- When: May 18th, 2022
- Understanding, Detecting and Localizing Partial Failures in Large System Software – NSDI’20
- Authors: Chang Lou, Peng Huang, and Scott Smith
- What: Study of real-world partial failures and a tool to help watching/detecting such partial failures
- When: May 25th, 2022
- Unicorn: Reasoning about Configurable System Performance through the Lens of Causality – EuroSys’22
- Authors: Md Shahriar Iqbal, Rahul Krishna, Mohammad Ali Javidian, Baishakhi Ray, and Pooyan Jamshidi
- What: Performance analysis and debugging for systems under different configurations
- When: June 8th, 2022
- State Machine Replication Scalability Made Simple – EuroSys’22
- Authors: Chrysoula Stathakopoulou, Matej Pavlovic, and Marko Vukolić
- What: Scalability of state machine replication to many nodes in BFT setting
- When: June 15th, 2022
- Data-Parallel Actors: A Programming Model for Scalable Query Serving Systems – NSDI’22
- Authors: Peter Kraft, Fiodar Kazhamiaka, Peter Bailis, and Matei Zaharia
- What: “a programming model for building distributed query serving systems”
- When: June 22nd, 2022
- AutoGR: Automated Geo-Replication with Fast System Performance and Preserved Application Semantics – VLDB’21
- Authors: Jiawei Wang, Cheng Li, Kai Ma, Jingze Huo, Feng Yan, Xinyu Feng, and Yinlong Xu
- What: A tool to analyze applications and suggest geo-replication strategies that optimize for performance/latency, while avoid consistency issues
- When: June 29th, 2022
- Varuna: Scalable, Low-cost Training of Massive Deep Learning Models – EuroSys’22
- Authors: Sanjith Athlur, Nitika Saran, Muthian Sivathanu, Ramachandran Ramjee, Nipun Kwatra
- What: A sprinkle of ML in our group. Scalable distributed ML on commodity hardware/networks
- When: July 6th
- Efficient Scheduling Policies for Microsecond-Scale Tasks – NSDI’22
- Authors: Sarah McClure, Amy Ousterhout, Scott Shenker, and Sylvia Ratnasamy
- What: Core/CPU scheduling for short RPCs/tasks at a server level
- When: July 20th, 2022
- Fireworks: A Fast, Efficient, and Safe Serverless Framework using VM-level post-JIT Snapshot – EuroSys’22
- Authors: Wonseok Shin, Wook-Hee Kim, Changwoo Min
- What: “prewarmed” serverless computing
- When: July 27th, 2022
- RAMP-TAO: Layering Atomic Transactions on Facebook’s Online TAO Data Store – VLDB’21
- Authors: Audrey Cheng, Xiao Shi, Lu Pan, Anthony Simpson, Neil Wheaton, Shilpa Lawande, Nathan Bronson, Peter Bailis, Natacha Crooks, Ion Stoica
- What: Atomic read transactions in Facebook’s TAO graph database
- When: August 3rd, 2022