Below is the reading group schedule for the upcoming winter term. The schedule is also available in our Google Calendar.

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• A CloudScale Characterization of Remote Procedure Calls [SOSP’23]
  • What: Study and characterization of 10,000 different RPC methods across many Google services.
  • Authors: Korakit Seemakhupt, Brent E. Stephens, Samira Khan, Sihang Liu, Hassan Wassel, Soheil Hassas Yeganeh, Alex C. Snoeren, Arvind Krishnamurthy, David E. Culler, Henry M. Levy
  • When: March 21st
• Chablis: Fast and General Transactions in Geo-Distributed Systems [CIDR’24]
  • What: Scalable, geo-distributed, multi-versioned transactional key-value store that relies on regional locality.
  • Authors: Tamer Eldeeb, Philip A. Bernstein, Asaf Cidon, Junfeng Yang
  • When: March 28th
• Load is not what you should balance: Introducing Prequal [NSDI’24]
  • What: Load balancer for multi-tenant systems aimed to minimize tail latency.
  • Authors: Bartek Wydrowski, Robert Kleinberg, Stephen M. Rumble, Aaron Archer
  • When: April 4th
• Timestamp as a Service, not an Oracle [VLDB]
  • What: Logical timestamping service without a single point of failure designed for distributed transactional systems
  • Authors: Yishuai Li, Yunfeng Zhu, Chao Shi, Guanhua Zhang, Jianzhong Wang, Xiaolu Zhang
  • When: April 11th
• Database Kernels: Seamless Integration of Database Systems and Fast Storage via CXL [CIDR’24]
  • What: SSD over CXL with database-specific hardware offloads.
  • Authors: Sangjin Lee, Alberto Lerner, Philippe Bonnet, Philippe Cudré-Mauroux
  • When: April 18th
• In-Memory Key-Value Store Live Migration with NetMigrate [FAST’24]
  • What: Cross-partition data migration with zero service interruptions using in-network hardware offload for redirecting requests to new “home”
  • Authors: Zeying Zhu, Yibo Zhao, Zaoxing Liu
  • When: April 25th
• What’s the Story in EBS Glory: Evolutions and Lessons in Building Cloud Block Store [FAST’24]
  • What: Alibaba Cloud Elastic Block Storage
  • Authors: Weidong Zhang, Erci Xu, Qiuping Wang, Xiaolu Zhang, Yuesheng Gu, Zhenwei Lu, Tao Ouyang, Guanqun Dai, Wenwen Peng, Zhe Xu, Shuo Zhang, Dong Wu, Yilei Peng, Tianyun Wang, Haoran Zhang, Jiasheng Wang, Wenyuan Yan, Yuanyuan Dong, Wenhui Yao, Zhongjie Wu, Lingjun Zhu, Chao Shi, Yinhu Wang, Rong Liu, Junping Wu, Jiaji Zhu, Jiesheng Wu
  • When: May 2nd
• Morty: Scaling Concurrency Control with Re-Execution [Eurosys’23]
  • What: Better performance in serializable transactional systems through transaction re-execution.
  • Authors: Matthew Burke, Florian Suri-Payer, Jeffrey Helt, Lorenzo Alvisi, Natacha Crooks
  • When: May 9th
• GEMINI: Fast Failure Recovery in Distributed Training with In-Memory Checkpoints [SOSP’23]
  • What: New checkpoint mechanism for ML training systems.
  • Authors: Zhuang Wang, Zhen Jia, Shuai Zheng, Zhen Zhang, Xinwei Fu, T. S. Eugene Ng, Yida Wang
  • When: May 16th
• Ditto: An Elastic and Adaptive Memory-Disaggregated Caching System [SOSP’23]
  • What: In-memory cache on top of a disaggregated-memory system.
  • Authors: Jiacheng Shen, Pengfei Zuo, Xuchuan Luo, Yuxin Su, Jiazhen Gu, Hao Feng, Yangfan Zhou, Michael R. Lyu
  • When: May 23rd