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