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Posters<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
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style="font-size:18.0pt;font-family:"Times New
Roman","serif";mso-fareast-font-family:
"Times New Roman"">2nd Greater Chicago Area System
Research Workshop (GCASR)
2013<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
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text-align:center;line-height:normal" align="center"><b><span
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Roman","serif";mso-fareast-font-family:"Times
New Roman"">Northwestern
University, Evanston IL -- May 3rd, 2013<br>
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text-align:center;line-height:normal" align="center"><b><a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="http://datasys.cs.iit.edu/events/GCASR13/index.html">http://datasys.cs.iit.edu/events/GCASR13/index.html</a>
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New Roman""><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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Roman","serif";mso-fareast-font-family:"Times
New Roman"">Overview<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
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line-height:normal"><span
style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New
Roman","serif";
mso-fareast-font-family:"Times New Roman"">It is our
pleasure to invite you to
join us for the 2nd Greater Chicago Area Systems Research
(GCASR) Workshop.
This workshop is a great opportunity for leading-edge systems
researchers in
Chicago to get acquainted, share results, and find synergies. We
plan to have a
renowned researcher as the keynote, as well as three
presentation sessions, one
Ph.D student poster session, and a panel discussion. For last
year's workshop
agenda, please click <a
href="https://sites.google.com/site/systemuchicago/great-chicago-area-system-research-seminar">here</a>.
<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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Roman","serif";mso-fareast-font-family:"Times
New Roman"">Topics<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
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line-height:normal"><span
style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New
Roman","serif";
mso-fareast-font-family:"Times New Roman"">This
workshop will focus on Computer
Systems, broadly construed, and related areas. Topics of
interest include,
but are not limited to: <o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<li class="MsoNormal"
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style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New
Roman","serif";mso-fareast-font-family:
"Times New Roman"">Operating Systems <o:p></o:p></span></li>
<li class="MsoNormal"
style="mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto;
line-height:normal;mso-list:l3 level1 lfo1;tab-stops:list .5in"><span
style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New
Roman","serif";mso-fareast-font-family:
"Times New Roman"">Architecture<o:p></o:p></span></li>
<li class="MsoNormal"
style="mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto;
line-height:normal;mso-list:l3 level1 lfo1;tab-stops:list .5in"><span
style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New
Roman","serif";mso-fareast-font-family:
"Times New Roman"">Networking<o:p></o:p></span></li>
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style="mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto;
line-height:normal;mso-list:l3 level1 lfo1;tab-stops:list .5in"><span
style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New
Roman","serif";mso-fareast-font-family:
"Times New Roman"">Distributed Systems <o:p></o:p></span></li>
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style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New
Roman","serif";mso-fareast-font-family:
"Times New Roman"">Grids/Clouds/Supercomputing
(including HPC/MTC/HTC)<o:p></o:p></span></li>
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style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New
Roman","serif";mso-fareast-font-family:
"Times New Roman"">Reconfigurable and Embedded
Systems<o:p></o:p></span></li>
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style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New
Roman","serif";mso-fareast-font-family:
"Times New Roman"">Programming Languages<o:p></o:p></span></li>
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style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New
Roman","serif";mso-fareast-font-family:
"Times New Roman"">Storage Systems<o:p></o:p></span></li>
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style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New
Roman","serif";mso-fareast-font-family:
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style="font-size:12.0pt;
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Roman","serif";mso-fareast-font-family:"Times
New Roman"">Important
Dates<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
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style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New
Roman","serif";mso-fareast-font-family:
"Times New Roman"">Abstract submission: </span></b><span
style="font-size: 12.0pt;font-family:"Times New
Roman","serif";mso-fareast-font-family:"Times
New Roman"">April 11th, 2013 <o:p></o:p></span></li>
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style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New
Roman","serif";mso-fareast-font-family:
"Times New Roman"">Acceptance notification: </span></b><span
style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New
Roman","serif";mso-fareast-font-family:
"Times New Roman"">April 15th, 2013 <o:p></o:p></span></li>
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style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New
Roman","serif";mso-fareast-font-family:
"Times New Roman"">Workshop date: </span></b><span
style="font-size:12.0pt; font-family:"Times New
Roman","serif";mso-fareast-font-family:"Times
New Roman"">May 3rd, 2013<o:p></o:p></span></li>
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style="font-size:12.0pt;
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Roman","serif";mso-fareast-font-family:"Times
New Roman"">Location<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"
style="margin-bottom:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt;line-height:
normal"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New
Roman","serif";
mso-fareast-font-family:"Times New Roman"">The 2nd
Greater Chicago Area Systems
Research (GCASR) Workshop will take place at:<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"
style="margin-bottom:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt;line-height:
normal"><b><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times
New Roman","serif";
mso-fareast-font-family:"Times New Roman"">Cohen
Commons, Technological
Institute L482</span></b><span
style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New
Roman","serif";
mso-fareast-font-family:"Times New Roman""><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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style="margin-bottom:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt;line-height:
normal"><b><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times
New Roman","serif";
mso-fareast-font-family:"Times New Roman"">Northwestern
University</span></b><span
style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New
Roman","serif";mso-fareast-font-family:
"Times New Roman""><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"
style="margin-bottom:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt;line-height:
normal"><b><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times
New Roman","serif";
mso-fareast-font-family:"Times New Roman"">2145
Sheridan Road</span></b><span
style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New
Roman","serif";mso-fareast-font-family:
"Times New Roman""><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"
style="mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto;line-height:normal"><b><span
style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New
Roman","serif";mso-fareast-font-family:
"Times New Roman"">Evanston, IL 60208</span></b><span
style="font-size:12.0pt;
font-family:"Times New
Roman","serif";mso-fareast-font-family:"Times
New Roman""><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"
style="mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto;
line-height:normal"><span
style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New
Roman","serif";
mso-fareast-font-family:"Times New Roman"">Northwestern
University is located
on the North Shore of the Chicago area. The Technological
Institute can be
conveniently accessed via the L Train (take the Purple Line to
Noyes Stop, walk
East 4 blocks to the Technological Institute) or by car or Taxi.
Detailed
directions and parking information can be found at <a
href="http://www.eecs.northwestern.edu/resources/for-visitors.html">http://www.eecs.northwestern.edu/resources/for-visitors.html</a>.
<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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style="mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto;
line-height:normal"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight:normal"><span
style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New
Roman","serif";mso-fareast-font-family:
"Times New Roman"">Abstract Submission<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"
style="mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto;
line-height:normal"><span
style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New
Roman","serif";
mso-fareast-font-family:"Times New Roman"">Authors are
invited to submit
abstracts (for either oral or poster presentation) of not more
than 300 words,
plus a biography of the presentation author. The abstract must
be submitted
online through the Google Form at <a
href="https://docs.google.com/forms/d/13tE5lHtxjR-vgzNK5YzD8hON8F7uHbL_9laAvWDfp-M/viewform">https://docs.google.com/forms/d/13tE5lHtxjR-vgzNK5YzD8hON8F7uHbL_9laAvWDfp-M/viewform</a>
before the deadline of April 11th, 2013 at 11:59PM CDT.
Abstracts will be
reviewed for relevance and institutional coverage. Notifications
of the
decisions will be sent out by April 15th, 2013. For more
information, please
see <a href="http://datasys.cs.iit.edu/events/GCASR13/">http://datasys.cs.iit.edu/events/GCASR13/</a>.
<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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style="mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto;
line-height:normal;mso-outline-level:4"><b><span
style="font-size:12.0pt;
font-family:"Times New
Roman","serif";mso-fareast-font-family:"Times
New Roman""><a
href="http://datasys.cs.iit.edu/events/GCASR13/organization.html">Organization</a><o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"
style="mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto;
line-height:normal"><b><span
style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New
Roman","serif";
mso-fareast-font-family:"Times New Roman"">Chairs</span></b><span
style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New
Roman","serif";mso-fareast-font-family:
"Times New Roman""><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<ul type="disc">
<li class="MsoNormal"
style="mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto;
line-height:normal;mso-list:l0 level1 lfo3;tab-stops:list .5in"><span
style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New
Roman","serif";mso-fareast-font-family:
"Times New Roman""><a
href="http://www.cs.iit.edu/%7Eiraicu/index.html">Ioan Raicu</a>,
Illinois Institute of Technology & Argonne National
Laboratory, USA<o:p></o:p></span></li>
<li class="MsoNormal"
style="mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto;
line-height:normal;mso-list:l0 level1 lfo3;tab-stops:list .5in"><span
style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New
Roman","serif";mso-fareast-font-family:
"Times New Roman""><a
href="http://users.eecs.northwestern.edu/%7Ehardav/">Nikos
Hardavellas</a>, Northwestern University, USA<o:p></o:p></span></li>
</ul>
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style="mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto;
line-height:normal"><b><span
style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New
Roman","serif";
mso-fareast-font-family:"Times New Roman"">Steering
Committee</span></b><span
style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New
Roman","serif";mso-fareast-font-family:
"Times New Roman""><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<ul type="disc">
<li class="MsoNormal"
style="mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto;
line-height:normal;mso-list:l1 level1 lfo4;tab-stops:list .5in"><span
style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New
Roman","serif";mso-fareast-font-family:
"Times New Roman""><a
href="http://www.cs.northwestern.edu/%7Efabianb/">Fabián E.
Bustamante</a>, Northwestern University, USA <o:p></o:p></span></li>
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style="mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto;
line-height:normal;mso-list:l1 level1 lfo4;tab-stops:list .5in"><span
style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New
Roman","serif";mso-fareast-font-family:
"Times New Roman""><a
href="https://sites.google.com/site/uchicagolssg/lssg/people/andrew-chien">Andrew
A. Chien</a>, University of Chicago & Argonne National
Laboratory, USA<o:p></o:p></span></li>
<li class="MsoNormal"
style="mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto;
line-height:normal;mso-list:l1 level1 lfo4;tab-stops:list .5in"><span
style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New
Roman","serif";mso-fareast-font-family:
"Times New Roman""><a
href="http://www.cs.northwestern.edu/%7Epdinda/">Peter Dinda</a>,
Northwestern University, USA<o:p></o:p></span></li>
<li class="MsoNormal"
style="mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto;
line-height:normal;mso-list:l1 level1 lfo4;tab-stops:list .5in"><span
style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New
Roman","serif";mso-fareast-font-family:
"Times New Roman""><a
href="http://www.cs.uic.edu/Jakob/">Jakob Eriksson</a>,
University of Illinois at Chicago, USA<o:p></o:p></span></li>
<li class="MsoNormal"
style="mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto;
line-height:normal;mso-list:l1 level1 lfo4;tab-stops:list .5in"><span
style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New
Roman","serif";mso-fareast-font-family:
"Times New Roman""><a
href="http://www.mcs.anl.gov/about/people_detail.php?id=285">Ian
Foster</a>, University of Chicago & Argonne National
Laboratory, USA<o:p></o:p></span></li>
<li class="MsoNormal"
style="mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto;
line-height:normal;mso-list:l1 level1 lfo4;tab-stops:list .5in"><span
style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New
Roman","serif";mso-fareast-font-family:
"Times New Roman""><a
href="http://users.eecs.northwestern.edu/%7Ehardav/">Nikos
Hardavellas</a>, Northwestern University, USA<o:p></o:p></span></li>
<li class="MsoNormal"
style="mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto;
line-height:normal;mso-list:l1 level1 lfo4;tab-stops:list .5in"><span
style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New
Roman","serif";mso-fareast-font-family:
"Times New Roman""><a
href="http://www.cs.iit.edu/%7Eiraicu/index.html">Ioan Raicu</a>,
Illinois Institute of Technology & Argonne National
Laboratory, USA<o:p></o:p></span></li>
<li class="MsoNormal"
style="mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto;
line-height:normal;mso-list:l1 level1 lfo4;tab-stops:list .5in"><span
style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New
Roman","serif";mso-fareast-font-family:
"Times New Roman""><a
href="http://www.cs.iit.edu/%7Escs/sun/">Xian-He Sun</a>,
Illinois Institute of Technology, USA<o:p></o:p></span></li>
</ul>
<p class="MsoNormal"
style="mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto;
line-height:normal"><span
style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New
Roman","serif";
mso-fareast-font-family:"Times New Roman""><b>Sponsors</b><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"
style="mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto;
line-height:normal"><span
style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New
Roman","serif";
mso-fareast-font-family:"Times New Roman"">The GCASR
2013 workshop has received
generous financial support from Robert R. McCormick School of
Engineering and
Applied Science at Northwestern University, and the Department
of Electrical
Engineering and Computer Science at Northwestern University. <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><o:p> </o:p></p>
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Ioan Raicu, Ph.D.
Assistant Professor, Illinois Institute of Technology (IIT)
Guest Research Faculty, Argonne National Laboratory (ANL)
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Data-Intensive Distributed Systems Laboratory, CS/IIT
Distributed Systems Laboratory, MCS/ANL
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Office: 1-312-567-5704
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