DistSys Reading Group is getting its 100th paper! Here is the list for the Spring semester:

• The Drinking Philosophers Problem – Foundational Paper
  • Authors: K. M. Chandy and J. Misra
  • When: February 23rd
• CompuCache: Remote Computable Caching using Spot VMs — CIDR’22
  • Authors: Qizhen Zhang, Philip A. Bernstein, Daniel S. Berger, Badrish Chandramouli, Vincent Liu, Boon Thau Loo
  • What: Offload some memory/data and computations to temporary spot instances.
  • When: March 2nd
• ByShard: Sharding in a Byzantine Environment — VLDB’21
  • Authors: Jelle Hellings, Mohammad Sadoghi
  • What: Sharded BFT system
  • When: March 9th
• P-Store: An Elastic Database System with Predictive Provisioning — SIGMOD’18
  • Authors: Rebecca Taft, Nosayba El-Sayed, M. Serafini, Yu Lu, Ashraf Aboulnaga, M. Stonebraker, Ricardo Mayerhofer, Francisco Jose Andrade
  • What: OLTP store with dynamic resource allocation
  • When: March 16th
• 1Pipe: Scalable Total Order Communication in Data Center Networks — SIGCOMM’21
  • Authors: Bojie Li, Gefei Zuo, Wei Bai, Lintao Zhang
  • What: Total order communication
  • When: March 23rd
• Solar Superstorms: Planning for an Internet Apocalypse — SIGCOMM’21
  • Authors: Sangeetha Abdu Jyothi
  • What: Can internet, in its current state and with current reliability/mitigation techniques, survive a major solar storm?
  • When: March 30th
• Shard Manager: A Generic Shard Management Framework for Geo-distributed Applications — SOSP’21
  • Authors: Sangmin Lee, Zhenhua Guo, Omer Sunercan, Jun Ying, Thawan Kooburat, Suryadeep Biswal, Jun Chen, Kun Huang, Yatpang Cheung, Yiding Zhou, Kaushik Veeraraghavan, Biren Damani, Pol Mauri Ruiz, Vikas Mehta, Chunqiang Tang
  • What: Shard management across data centers
  • When: April 6th
• Achieving High Throughput and Elasticity in a Larger-than-Memory Store — VLDB’21
  • Authors: Chinmay Kulkarni, Badrish Chandramouli, Ryan Stutsman
  • What: DB that uses RAM, SSD, and cloud blob storage
  • When: April 13th
• Darwin: Scale-In Stream Processing — CIDR’22
  • Authors: Lawrence Benson, Tilmann Rabl
  • What: Stream processing with ability to use all resources of a machine before scaling out to more servers
  • When: April 20th
• Efficient Replication via Timestamp Stability — EuroSys’21
  • Authors: Vitor Enes, Carlos Baquero, Alexey Gotsman, Pierre Sutra
  • What: Predictable State Machine Replication (SMR) with high throughput
  • When: April 27th

Reading Group

Our reading group takes place over Zoom every Thursday at 1:00 pm EST. We have a slack group where we post papers, hold offline discussions, and most importantly manage Zoom invites to paper presentations. Please join the slack group to get involved!