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    <h2>2nd Greater Chicago Area System Research Workshop (GCASR) 2013</h2>
    <span class="style10"><strong>At Northwestern University, Evanston
        IL -- May 3rd, 2013<br>
        <br>
      </strong><a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="http://datasys.cs.iit.edu/events/GCASR13/">http://datasys.cs.iit.edu/events/GCASR13/</a><br>
    </span>
    <h4>Overview</h4>
    <p class="style6">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. The <a href="cid:part1.09040806.00090209@cs.iit.edu">workshop
        program</a> has been posted. The workshop is free of charge
      (courtesy of our generous <a href="#Sponsors">sponsors from
        Northwestern University</a>); please <a
href="https://docs.google.com/forms/d/1Q6cl0NlgSz_N-mwY6ccrM7h0-J_xhnDuc-of7-5lLYs/viewform">
        register</a>
      (<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="https://docs.google.com/forms/d/1Q6cl0NlgSz_N-mwY6ccrM7h0-J_xhnDuc-of7-5lLYs/viewform">https://docs.google.com/forms/d/1Q6cl0NlgSz_N-mwY6ccrM7h0-J_xhnDuc-of7-5lLYs/viewform</a>)

      by April 25th, 2013 if you would like to attend.   </p>
    <h4>Program</h4>
    <p>We are pleased to announce that the final program
      (<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="http://datasys.cs.iit.edu/events/GCASR13/program.html">http://datasys.cs.iit.edu/events/GCASR13/program.html</a>) is
      composed of <a href="cid:part4.01090609.04090600@cs.iit.edu">1
        keynote presentation</a>, <a href="#Oral_Presentations">15 oral
        presentations</a>, and 39 poster presentations (separated into <a
        href="#Poster_Session_1">session 1</a> and <a
        href="#Poster_Session_2">session 2</a>). We have 57 workshop
      presenters, representing 10 different institutions (ANL, DePaul,
      Google, IIT, Northwestern, Notre Dame, Purdue, UChicago, UIC, and
      UIUC). The workshop will start at 8AM with breakfast, and will end
      at 6:15PM.<br>
    </p>
    <h4>Keynote Presentation
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    </h4>
    <ul>
      <li> <a href="cid:part4.01090609.04090600@cs.iit.edu">Pete
          Beckman</a>, Argonne National Laboratory</li>
    </ul>
    <h4>Oral Presentations</h4>
    <p> </p>
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          <td class="auto-style2" style="height: 20.4pt; width: 88pt;
            text-underline-style: none; text-line-through: none;
            mso-pattern: #4BACC6 none" height="27"> Time</td>
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            text-underline-style: none; text-line-through: none;
            mso-pattern: #4BACC6 none" width="754"> Description</td>
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          <td class="auto-style3" style="height: 15.6pt; width: 88pt;
            text-underline-style: none; text-line-through: none;
            mso-pattern: #DAEEF3 none" height="21"> 8:00 - 8:30</td>
          <td class="auto-style3" style="width: 565pt;
            text-underline-style: none; text-line-through: none;
            mso-pattern: #DAEEF3 none" width="754"> Breakfast</td>
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          <td class="auto-style4" style="height: 15.0pt; width: 88pt;
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            height="20"> 8:30 - 8:40</td>
          <td class="auto-style4" style="width: 565pt;
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            width="754"> Opening Remarks<br>
            <span class="auto-style10">Nikos Hardavellas, Northwestern</span><br>
            <span class="auto-style10">Ioan Raicu, IIT</span></td>
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          <td class="auto-style3" style="height: 18.0pt; width: 88pt;
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            mso-pattern: #DAEEF3 none" height="24"> 8:40 - 9:25</td>
          <td class="auto-style5" style="width: 565pt;
            text-underline-style: none; text-line-through: none;
            mso-pattern: #DAEEF3 none" width="754"> <a
              href="cid:part4.01090609.04090600@cs.iit.edu">Keynote<br>
              <span class="auto-style10">Pete Beckman, ANL</span></a></td>
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          <td class="auto-style4" style="height: 18.0pt; width: 88pt;
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            height="24">  </td>
          <td class="auto-style6" style="width: 565pt;
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            width="754"> Session 1: Architecture, Embedded and
            Reconfigurable Systems</td>
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          <td class="auto-style3" style="height: 15.0pt; width: 88pt;
            text-underline-style: none; text-line-through: none;
            mso-pattern: #DAEEF3 none" height="20"> 9:25 - 9:50</td>
          <td class="auto-style20" style="width: 565pt;
            text-underline-style: none; text-line-through: none;
            mso-pattern: #DAEEF3 none" width="754"> <strong>The 10x10
              Project: Can we have both extreme energy efficiency and
              programmability?<br>
            </strong>Andrew A. Chien, UChicago</td>
        </tr>
        <tr style="height:15.0pt" height="20">
          <td class="auto-style4" style="height: 15.0pt; width: 88pt;
            text-underline-style: none; text-line-through: none;"
            height="20"> 9:50 - 10:15</td>
          <td class="auto-style19" style="width: 565pt;
            text-underline-style: none; text-line-through: none;
            mso-pattern: #DAEEF3 none" width="754"> <strong>Collectively
              Achieve Fairest Distribution of Discrete Resources with
              Limited Sharing: Complexity and Protocols</strong><br>
            Wenjing Rao, UIC</td>
        </tr>
        <tr style="height:15.0pt" height="20">
          <td class="auto-style3" style="height: 15.0pt; width: 88pt;
            text-underline-style: none; text-line-through: none;
            mso-pattern: #DAEEF3 none" height="20"> 10:15 - 10:30</td>
          <td class="auto-style3" style="width: 565pt;
            text-underline-style: none; text-line-through: none;
            mso-pattern: #DAEEF3 none" width="754"> Break</td>
        </tr>
        <tr style="height:18.0pt" height="24">
          <td class="auto-style4" style="height: 18.0pt; width: 88pt;
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            height="24">  </td>
          <td class="auto-style6" style="width: 565pt;
            text-underline-style: none; text-line-through: none;"
            width="754"> Session 2: HPC, Cloud, and Warehouse-scale
            Computing</td>
        </tr>
        <tr style="height:15.0pt" height="20">
          <td class="auto-style3" style="height: 15.0pt; width: 88pt;
            text-underline-style: none; text-line-through: none;
            mso-pattern: #DAEEF3 none" height="20"> 10:30 - 10:55</td>
          <td class="auto-style20" style="width: 565pt;
            text-underline-style: none; text-line-through: none;
            mso-pattern: #DAEEF3 none" width="754"> <strong>Warehouse-scale
              Computing: Challenges and Opportunities</strong><br>
            Nicholas Kidd, Google</td>
        </tr>
        <tr style="height:15.0pt" height="20">
          <td class="auto-style4" style="height: 15.0pt; width: 88pt;
            text-underline-style: none; text-line-through: none;"
            height="20"> 10:55 - 11:20</td>
          <td class="auto-style19" style="width: 565pt;
            text-underline-style: none; text-line-through: none;"
            width="754"> <strong>Scaling Up Without Blowing Up</strong><br>
            Douglas Thain, Notre Dame</td>
        </tr>
        <tr style="height:15.0pt" height="20">
          <td class="auto-style3" style="height: 15.0pt; width: 88pt;
            text-underline-style: none; text-line-through: none;
            mso-pattern: #DAEEF3 none" height="20"> 11:20 - 11:45</td>
          <td class="auto-style20" style="width: 565pt;
            text-underline-style: none; text-line-through: none;
            mso-pattern: #DAEEF3 none" width="754"> <strong>The Case
              for Limping-Hardware Tolerant Clouds </strong> <br>
            Haryadi Gunawi, UChicago</td>
        </tr>
        <tr style="height:15.0pt" height="20">
          <td class="auto-style4" style="height: 15.0pt; width: 88pt;
            text-underline-style: none; text-line-through: none;"
            height="20"> 11:45 - 12:10</td>
          <td class="auto-style19" style="width: 565pt;
            text-underline-style: none; text-line-through: none;"
            width="754"> <strong>Toward Smart HPC via Active Learning
              and Intelligent Scheduling</strong><br>
            Zhiling Lan, IIT</td>
        </tr>
        <tr style="height:15.0pt" height="20">
          <td class="auto-style3" style="height: 15.0pt; width: 88pt;
            text-underline-style: none; text-line-through: none;
            mso-pattern: #DAEEF3 none" height="20"> 12:10 - 12:55</td>
          <td class="auto-style3" style="width: 565pt;
            text-underline-style: none; text-line-through: none;
            mso-pattern: #DAEEF3 none" width="754"> Lunch</td>
        </tr>
        <tr style="height:18.0pt" height="24">
          <td class="auto-style4" style="height: 18.0pt; width: 88pt;
            text-underline-style: none; text-line-through: none;"
            height="24"> 12:55 - 1:40</td>
          <td class="auto-style6" style="width: 565pt;
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            width="754"> <a href="#Poster_Session_1">Poster Session 1<br>
              <span class="auto-style10">Distributed Systems and Storage</span></a></td>
        </tr>
        <tr style="height:18.0pt" height="24">
          <td class="auto-style3" style="height: 18.0pt; width: 88pt;
            text-underline-style: none; text-line-through: none;
            mso-pattern: #DAEEF3 none" height="24">  </td>
          <td class="auto-style5" style="width: 565pt;
            text-underline-style: none; text-line-through: none;
            mso-pattern: #DAEEF3 none" width="754"> Session 3:
            Networking and Storage</td>
        </tr>
        <tr style="height:15.0pt" height="20">
          <td class="auto-style4" style="height: 15.0pt; width: 88pt;
            text-underline-style: none; text-line-through: none;"
            height="20"> 1:40 - 2:05</td>
          <td class="auto-style19" style="width: 565pt;
            text-underline-style: none; text-line-through: none;"
            width="754"> <strong>Pushing experiments to the Internet's
              edge </strong> <br>
            Fabian E. Bustamante, Northwestern</td>
        </tr>
        <tr style="height:15.0pt" height="20">
          <td class="auto-style3" style="height: 15.0pt; width: 88pt;
            text-underline-style: none; text-line-through: none;
            mso-pattern: #DAEEF3 none" height="20"> 2:05 - 2:30</td>
          <td class="auto-style20" style="width: 565pt;
            text-underline-style: none; text-line-through: none;
            mso-pattern: #DAEEF3 none" width="754"> <strong>Increasing
              Network Resiliency by Optimally Assigning Diverse Variants
              to Routing Nodes </strong><br>
            Cristina Nita-Rotaru, Purdue</td>
        </tr>
        <tr style="height:15.0pt" height="20">
          <td class="auto-style4" style="height: 15.0pt; width: 88pt;
            text-underline-style: none; text-line-through: none;"
            height="20"> 2:30 - 2:55</td>
          <td class="auto-style19" style="width: 565pt;
            text-underline-style: none; text-line-through: none;"
            width="754"> <strong>Parallel Networks and Storage for
              Predictable End-to-End Data Movement </strong><br>
            Eun-Sung Jung, ANL</td>
        </tr>
        <tr style="height:15.0pt" height="20">
          <td class="auto-style3" style="height: 15.0pt; width: 88pt;
            text-underline-style: none; text-line-through: none;
            mso-pattern: #DAEEF3 none" height="20"> 2:55 - 3:20</td>
          <td class="auto-style20" style="width: 565pt;
            text-underline-style: none; text-line-through: none;
            mso-pattern: #DAEEF3 none" width="754"> <strong>System
              Design Considerations of Big Data Processing <br>
            </strong>Xian-He Sun, IIT</td>
        </tr>
        <tr style="height:18.0pt" height="24">
          <td class="auto-style4" style="height: 18.0pt; width: 88pt;
            text-underline-style: none; text-line-through: none;"
            height="24"> 3:20 - 4:05</td>
          <td class="auto-style6" style="width: 565pt;
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            width="754"> Break<br>
            <a href="#Poster_Session_2">Poster Session 2<span
                class="auto-style10"><br>
                Architecture, Data-bases, Networking, OS, Programming
                Languages, and Security</span></a></td>
        </tr>
        <tr style="height:18.0pt" height="24">
          <td class="auto-style3" style="height: 18.0pt; width: 88pt;
            text-underline-style: none; text-line-through: none;
            mso-pattern: #DAEEF3 none" height="24">  </td>
          <td class="auto-style5" style="width: 565pt;
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            mso-pattern: #DAEEF3 none" width="754"> Session 4: Operating
            Systems and Security</td>
        </tr>
        <tr style="height:15.0pt" height="20">
          <td class="auto-style4" style="height: 15.0pt; width: 88pt;
            text-underline-style: none; text-line-through: none;"
            height="20"> 4:05 - 4:30</td>
          <td class="auto-style19" style="width: 565pt;
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            width="754"> <strong>Recent Research in the V3VEE Project <br>
            </strong>Peter Dinda, Northwestern</td>
        </tr>
        <tr style="height:15.0pt" height="20">
          <td class="auto-style3" style="height: 15.0pt; width: 88pt;
            text-underline-style: none; text-line-through: none;
            mso-pattern: #DAEEF3 none" height="20"> 4:30 - 4:55</td>
          <td class="auto-style20" style="width: 565pt;
            text-underline-style: none; text-line-through: none;
            mso-pattern: #DAEEF3 none" width="754"> <strong>Ethos: A
              Layered Approach to Secure Applications <br>
            </strong>Jon A Solworth, UIC</td>
        </tr>
        <tr style="height:15.0pt" height="20">
          <td class="auto-style4" style="height: 15.0pt; width: 88pt;
            text-underline-style: none; text-line-through: none;"
            height="20"> 4:55 - 5:20</td>
          <td class="auto-style19" style="width: 565pt;
            text-underline-style: none; text-line-through: none;"
            width="754"> <strong>DroidChameleon: Evaluating Android
              Anti-malware against Transformation Attacks <br>
            </strong>Yan Chen, Northwestern</td>
        </tr>
        <tr style="height:18.0pt" height="24">
          <td class="auto-style3" style="height: 18.0pt; width: 88pt;
            text-underline-style: none; text-line-through: none;
            mso-pattern: #DAEEF3 none" height="24">  </td>
          <td class="auto-style5" style="width: 565pt;
            text-underline-style: none; text-line-through: none;
            mso-pattern: #DAEEF3 none" width="754"> Session 5:
            Programming Languages and Database Systems</td>
        </tr>
        <tr style="height:15.0pt" height="20">
          <td class="auto-style4" style="height: 15.0pt; width: 88pt;
            text-underline-style: none; text-line-through: none;"
            height="20"> 5:20 - 5:45</td>
          <td class="auto-style19" style="width: 565pt;
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            width="754"> <strong>Diderot: a Domain-Specific Language
              for Portably Parallel Scientific Visualization and Image
              Analysis <br>
            </strong>Gordon Kindlmann, UChicago</td>
        </tr>
        <tr style="height:15.0pt" height="20">
          <td class="auto-style3" style="height: 15.0pt; width: 88pt;
            text-underline-style: none; text-line-through: none;
            mso-pattern: #DAEEF3 none" height="20"> 5:45 - 6:10</td>
          <td class="auto-style20" style="width: 565pt;
            text-underline-style: none; text-line-through: none;
            mso-pattern: #DAEEF3 none" width="754"> <strong>The
              (Potential) Perks of Integrating Provenance Support into
              Database Engines <br>
            </strong>Boris Glavic, IIT</td>
        </tr>
        <tr style="height:15.0pt" height="20">
          <td class="auto-style4" style="height: 15.0pt; width: 88pt;
            text-underline-style: none; text-line-through: none;"
            height="20"> 6:10</td>
          <td class="auto-style4" style="width: 565pt;
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            width="754"> Closing Remarks <br>
            <span class="auto-style10">Nikos Hardavellas, Northwestern<br>
              Ioan Raicu, IIT</span></td>
        </tr>
      </tbody>
    </table>
    <h4>Poster Session 1</h4>
    <h5> </h5>
    <h5>Distributed Systems and Storage</h5>
    <p> </p>
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      <colgroup> <col width="474"><col width="126"><col width="128"> </colgroup>
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          <td class="auto-style2" style="height: 20.4pt; width: 356pt;
            text-underline-style: none; text-line-through: none;
            mso-pattern: #4BACC6 none" width="474" height="27"> Title</td>
          <td class="auto-style2" style="width: 94pt;
            text-underline-style: none; text-line-through: none;
            mso-pattern: #4BACC6 none" width="126"> Name</td>
          <td class="auto-style2" style="width: 96pt;
            text-underline-style: none; text-line-through: none;
            mso-pattern: #4BACC6 none" width="128"> Institution</td>
        </tr>
        <tr height="20">
          <td class="auto-style15" style="height: 15.0pt; width: 356pt;
            text-underline-style: none; text-line-through: none;
            mso-pattern: #DAEEF3 none" width="474" height="20"> A
            Decoupled Execution Paradigm for Data-Intensive High-End
            Computing</td>
          <td class="auto-style16" style="text-underline-style: none;
            text-line-through: none; mso-pattern: #DAEEF3 none"> Yanlong
            Yin</td>
          <td class="auto-style16" style="text-underline-style: none;
            text-line-through: none; mso-pattern: #DAEEF3 none"> IIT</td>
        </tr>
        <tr height="19">
          <td class="auto-style17" style="height: 14.4pt; width: 356pt;
            text-underline-style: none; text-line-through: none;"
            width="474" height="19"> Distributed Kev-Value Store on
            Cloud</td>
          <td class="auto-style18" style="text-underline-style: none;
            text-line-through: none;"> Tonglin Li</td>
          <td class="auto-style18" style="text-underline-style: none;
            text-line-through: none;"> IIT</td>
        </tr>
        <tr height="19">
          <td class="auto-style15" style="height: 14.4pt; width: 356pt;
            text-underline-style: none; text-line-through: none;
            mso-pattern: #DAEEF3 none" width="474" height="19"> Enabling
            and Optimizing Parallel File Write in HDFS</td>
          <td class="auto-style16" style="text-underline-style: none;
            text-line-through: none; mso-pattern: #DAEEF3 none"> Xi Yang</td>
          <td class="auto-style16" style="text-underline-style: none;
            text-line-through: none; mso-pattern: #DAEEF3 none"> IIT</td>
        </tr>
        <tr height="19">
          <td class="auto-style17" style="height: 14.4pt; width: 356pt;
            text-underline-style: none; text-line-through: none;"
            width="474" height="19"> FusionFS: a distributed file system
            for large scale data-intensive computing</td>
          <td class="auto-style18" style="text-underline-style: none;
            text-line-through: none;"> Dongfang Zhao</td>
          <td class="auto-style18" style="text-underline-style: none;
            text-line-through: none;"> IIT</td>
        </tr>
        <tr height="19">
          <td class="auto-style15" style="height: 14.4pt; width: 356pt;
            text-underline-style: none; text-line-through: none;
            mso-pattern: #DAEEF3 none" width="474" height="19"> HPC
            Analytics for Extreme Scale Computing</td>
          <td class="auto-style16" style="text-underline-style: none;
            text-line-through: none; mso-pattern: #DAEEF3 none"> Li Yu</td>
          <td class="auto-style16" style="text-underline-style: none;
            text-line-through: none; mso-pattern: #DAEEF3 none"> IIT</td>
        </tr>
        <tr height="19">
          <td class="auto-style17" style="height: 14.4pt; width: 356pt;
            text-underline-style: none; text-line-through: none;"
            width="474" height="19"> MATRIX: MAny-Task computing
            execution fabRIc at eXascales</td>
          <td class="auto-style18" style="text-underline-style: none;
            text-line-through: none;"> Anupam Rajendran</td>
          <td class="auto-style18" style="text-underline-style: none;
            text-line-through: none;"> IIT</td>
        </tr>
        <tr height="19">
          <td class="auto-style15" style="height: 14.4pt; width: 356pt;
            text-underline-style: none; text-line-through: none;
            mso-pattern: #DAEEF3 none" width="474" height="19">
            Measuring Power Consumption on IBM Blue Gene/Q</td>
          <td class="auto-style16" style="text-underline-style: none;
            text-line-through: none; mso-pattern: #DAEEF3 none"> Sean
            Wallace</td>
          <td class="auto-style16" style="text-underline-style: none;
            text-line-through: none; mso-pattern: #DAEEF3 none"> IIT</td>
        </tr>
        <tr height="19">
          <td class="auto-style17" style="height: 14.4pt; width: 356pt;
            text-underline-style: none; text-line-through: none;"
            width="474" height="19"> NoVoHT: a Lightweight Dynamic
            Persistent NoSQL Key/Value Store</td>
          <td class="auto-style18" style="text-underline-style: none;
            text-line-through: none;"> *Kevin Brandstatter</td>
          <td class="auto-style18" style="text-underline-style: none;
            text-line-through: none;"> IIT</td>
        </tr>
        <tr height="19">
          <td class="auto-style15" style="height: 14.4pt; width: 356pt;
            text-underline-style: none; text-line-through: none;
            mso-pattern: #DAEEF3 none" width="474" height="19">
            Power-Aware Job Scheduling on Production HPC Systems</td>
          <td class="auto-style16" style="text-underline-style: none;
            text-line-through: none; mso-pattern: #DAEEF3 none"> Zhou
            Zhou</td>
          <td class="auto-style16" style="text-underline-style: none;
            text-line-through: none; mso-pattern: #DAEEF3 none"> IIT</td>
        </tr>
        <tr height="19">
          <td class="auto-style17" style="height: 14.4pt; width: 356pt;
            text-underline-style: none; text-line-through: none;"
            width="474" height="19"> Toward Petascale Cosmology
            Simulations</td>
          <td class="auto-style18" style="text-underline-style: none;
            text-line-through: none;"> Jingjin Wu</td>
          <td class="auto-style18" style="text-underline-style: none;
            text-line-through: none;"> IIT</td>
        </tr>
        <tr height="19">
          <td class="auto-style15" style="height: 14.4pt; width: 356pt;
            text-underline-style: none; text-line-through: none;
            mso-pattern: #DAEEF3 none" width="474" height="19"> Towards
            a Provenance-aware Distributed Filesystem</td>
          <td class="auto-style16" style="text-underline-style: none;
            text-line-through: none; mso-pattern: #DAEEF3 none"> Chen
            Shou</td>
          <td class="auto-style16" style="text-underline-style: none;
            text-line-through: none; mso-pattern: #DAEEF3 none"> IIT</td>
        </tr>
        <tr height="19">
          <td class="auto-style17" style="height: 14.4pt; width: 356pt;
            text-underline-style: none; text-line-through: none;"
            width="474" height="19"> Towards Distributed Batch
            Scheduling</td>
          <td class="auto-style18" style="text-underline-style: none;
            text-line-through: none;"> Xiaobing Zhou</td>
          <td class="auto-style18" style="text-underline-style: none;
            text-line-through: none;"> IIT</td>
        </tr>
        <tr height="19">
          <td class="auto-style15" style="height: 14.4pt; width: 356pt;
            text-underline-style: none; text-line-through: none;
            mso-pattern: #DAEEF3 none" width="474" height="19">
            Understanding the cost of the cloud for scientific
            applications</td>
          <td class="auto-style16" style="text-underline-style: none;
            text-line-through: none; mso-pattern: #DAEEF3 none"> Iman
            Sadooghi</td>
          <td class="auto-style16" style="text-underline-style: none;
            text-line-through: none; mso-pattern: #DAEEF3 none"> IIT</td>
        </tr>
        <tr height="19">
          <td class="auto-style17" style="height: 14.4pt; width: 356pt;
            text-underline-style: none; text-line-through: none;"
            width="474" height="19"> Community sensing under (soft)
            control</td>
          <td class="auto-style18" style="text-underline-style: none;
            text-line-through: none;"> John Rula</td>
          <td class="auto-style18" style="text-underline-style: none;
            text-line-through: none;"> Northwestern</td>
        </tr>
        <tr height="19">
          <td class="auto-style15" style="height: 14.4pt; width: 356pt;
            text-underline-style: none; text-line-through: none;
            mso-pattern: #DAEEF3 none" width="474" height="19"> Blockus:
            Efficient Out-of-Core Computation Using Blocks</td>
          <td class="auto-style16" style="text-underline-style: none;
            text-line-through: none; mso-pattern: #DAEEF3 none"> Erik
            Bodzsar</td>
          <td class="auto-style16" style="text-underline-style: none;
            text-line-through: none; mso-pattern: #DAEEF3 none">
            UChicago</td>
        </tr>
        <tr height="19">
          <td class="auto-style17" style="height: 14.4pt; width: 356pt;
            text-underline-style: none; text-line-through: none;"
            width="474" height="19"> Exploiting Global View for
            Resilience (GVR)</td>
          <td class="auto-style18" style="text-underline-style: none;
            text-line-through: none;"> Hajime Fujita</td>
          <td class="auto-style18" style="text-underline-style: none;
            text-line-through: none;"> UChicago</td>
        </tr>
        <tr height="19">
          <td class="auto-style15" style="height: 14.4pt; width: 356pt;
            text-underline-style: none; text-line-through: none;
            mso-pattern: #DAEEF3 none" width="474" height="19"> The
            Global View Resilience Model</td>
          <td class="auto-style16" style="text-underline-style: none;
            text-line-through: none; mso-pattern: #DAEEF3 none"> Zachary
            Rubenstein</td>
          <td class="auto-style16" style="text-underline-style: none;
            text-line-through: none; mso-pattern: #DAEEF3 none">
            UChicago</td>
        </tr>
        <tr height="19">
          <td class="auto-style17" style="height: 14.4pt; width: 356pt;
            text-underline-style: none; text-line-through: none;"
            width="474" height="19"> Linking and Loading Scientific
            Workflows</td>
          <td class="auto-style18" style="text-underline-style: none;
            text-line-through: none;"> Casey Robinson</td>
          <td class="auto-style18" style="text-underline-style: none;
            text-line-through: none;"> Notre Dame</td>
        </tr>
        <tr height="19">
          <td class="auto-style15" style="height: 14.4pt; width: 356pt;
            text-underline-style: none; text-line-through: none;
            mso-pattern: #DAEEF3 none" width="474" height="19"> Scaling
            Work Queue for the Cloud with Hierarchy</td>
          <td class="auto-style16" style="text-underline-style: none;
            text-line-through: none; mso-pattern: #DAEEF3 none"> Michael
            Albrecht</td>
          <td class="auto-style16" style="text-underline-style: none;
            text-line-through: none; mso-pattern: #DAEEF3 none"> Notre
            Dame</td>
        </tr>
        <tr height="38">
          <td class="auto-style17" style="height: 28.8pt; width: 356pt;
            text-underline-style: none; text-line-through: none;"
            width="474" height="38"> Software Engineering Challenges and
            Tools in Distributed Computing Workspace for Civil
            Engineering Applications</td>
          <td class="auto-style18" style="text-underline-style: none;
            text-line-through: none;"> Peter Sempolinski</td>
          <td class="auto-style18" style="text-underline-style: none;
            text-line-through: none;"> Notre Dame</td>
        </tr>
      </tbody>
    </table>
    <h4> </h4>
    <h4>Poster Session 2</h4>
    <h5> </h5>
    <h5> Architecture, Data-bases, Networking, OS, Programming
      Languages, and Security</h5>
    <p> </p>
    <table style="border-collapse: collapse;width:546pt" width="727"
      border="0" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0">
      <colgroup> <col width="469"><col width="130"><col width="128"> </colgroup>
      <tbody>
        <tr height="27">
          <td class="auto-style2" style="height: 20.4pt; width: 352pt;
            text-underline-style: none; text-line-through: none;
            mso-pattern: #4BACC6 none" width="469" height="27"> Title</td>
          <td class="auto-style2" style="width: 98pt;
            text-underline-style: none; text-line-through: none;
            mso-pattern: #4BACC6 none" width="130"> Name</td>
          <td class="auto-style2" style="width: 96pt;
            text-underline-style: none; text-line-through: none;
            mso-pattern: #4BACC6 none" width="128"> Institution</td>
        </tr>
        <tr height="20">
          <td class="auto-style15" style="height: 15.0pt; width: 352pt;
            text-underline-style: none; text-line-through: none;
            mso-pattern: #DAEEF3 none" width="469" height="20">
            Mastering chaos with cost-effective sampling</td>
          <td class="auto-style16" style="text-underline-style: none;
            text-line-through: none; mso-pattern: #DAEEF3 none"> Mona
            Rahimi</td>
          <td class="auto-style16" style="text-underline-style: none;
            text-line-through: none; mso-pattern: #DAEEF3 none"> DePaul</td>
        </tr>
        <tr height="19">
          <td class="auto-style17" style="height: 14.4pt; width: 352pt;
            text-underline-style: none; text-line-through: none;"
            width="469" height="19"> Accelerating Scientific Workflow
            Applications with GPUs</td>
          <td class="auto-style18" style="text-underline-style: none;
            text-line-through: none;"> *Dustin Shahidehpour</td>
          <td class="auto-style18" style="text-underline-style: none;
            text-line-through: none;"> IIT</td>
        </tr>
        <tr height="38">
          <td class="auto-style15" style="height: 28.8pt; width: 352pt;
            text-underline-style: none; text-line-through: none;
            mso-pattern: #DAEEF3 none" width="469" height="38"> Enabling
            Dynamic Memory Management Support for MTC on NVIDIA GPUs</td>
          <td class="auto-style16" style="text-underline-style: none;
            text-line-through: none; mso-pattern: #DAEEF3 none"> *Ben
            Grimmer</td>
          <td class="auto-style16" style="text-underline-style: none;
            text-line-through: none; mso-pattern: #DAEEF3 none"> IIT</td>
        </tr>
        <tr height="19">
          <td class="auto-style17" style="height: 14.4pt; width: 352pt;
            text-underline-style: none; text-line-through: none;"
            width="469" height="19"> GeMTC: GPU enabled Many-Task
            Computing</td>
          <td class="auto-style18" style="text-underline-style: none;
            text-line-through: none;"> Scott J. Krieder</td>
          <td class="auto-style18" style="text-underline-style: none;
            text-line-through: none;"> IIT</td>
        </tr>
        <tr height="38">
          <td class="auto-style15" style="height: 28.8pt; width: 352pt;
            text-underline-style: none; text-line-through: none;
            mso-pattern: #DAEEF3 none" width="469" height="38">
            Understanding the Costs of Many-Task Computing Workloads <br>
            on Intel Xeon Phi Coprocessors</td>
          <td class="auto-style16" style="text-underline-style: none;
            text-line-through: none; mso-pattern: #DAEEF3 none">
            *Jeffrey Johnson</td>
          <td class="auto-style16" style="text-underline-style: none;
            text-line-through: none; mso-pattern: #DAEEF3 none"> IIT</td>
        </tr>
        <tr height="19">
          <td class="auto-style17" style="height: 14.4pt; width: 352pt;
            text-underline-style: none; text-line-through: none;"
            width="469" height="19"> Characterizing Broadband Services
            with Dasu</td>
          <td class="auto-style18" style="text-underline-style: none;
            text-line-through: none;"> Zachary Bischof</td>
          <td class="auto-style18" style="text-underline-style: none;
            text-line-through: none;"> Northwestern</td>
        </tr>
        <tr height="19">
          <td class="auto-style15" style="height: 14.4pt; width: 352pt;
            text-underline-style: none; text-line-through: none;
            mso-pattern: #DAEEF3 none" width="469" height="19"> Elastic
            Fidelity: Trading-off Computational Accuracy for Energy
            Reduction</td>
          <td class="auto-style16" style="text-underline-style: none;
            text-line-through: none; mso-pattern: #DAEEF3 none">
            Georgios Tziantzioulis</td>
          <td class="auto-style16" style="text-underline-style: none;
            text-line-through: none; mso-pattern: #DAEEF3 none">
            Northwestern</td>
        </tr>
        <tr height="19">
          <td class="auto-style17" style="height: 14.4pt; width: 352pt;
            text-underline-style: none; text-line-through: none;"
            width="469" height="19"> Experiments at the Internet’s Edge
            with Dasu</td>
          <td class="auto-style18" style="text-underline-style: none;
            text-line-through: none;"> Mario A. Sanchez</td>
          <td class="auto-style18" style="text-underline-style: none;
            text-line-through: none;"> Northwestern</td>
        </tr>
        <tr height="38">
          <td class="auto-style15" style="height: 28.8pt; width: 352pt;
            text-underline-style: none; text-line-through: none;
            mso-pattern: #DAEEF3 none" width="469" height="38"> Galaxy:
            Pushing the Power and Bandwidth Walls <br>
            with Optically Connected Disintegrated Processors</td>
          <td class="auto-style16" style="text-underline-style: none;
            text-line-through: none; mso-pattern: #DAEEF3 none"> Yigit
            Demir</td>
          <td class="auto-style16" style="text-underline-style: none;
            text-line-through: none; mso-pattern: #DAEEF3 none">
            Northwestern</td>
        </tr>
        <tr height="19">
          <td class="auto-style17" style="height: 14.4pt; width: 352pt;
            text-underline-style: none; text-line-through: none;"
            width="469" height="19"> Shifting GEARS to Enable
            Guest-context Virtual Services</td>
          <td class="auto-style18" style="text-underline-style: none;
            text-line-through: none;"> Kyle Hale</td>
          <td class="auto-style18" style="text-underline-style: none;
            text-line-through: none;"> Northwestern</td>
        </tr>
        <tr height="19">
          <td class="auto-style15" style="height: 14.4pt; width: 352pt;
            text-underline-style: none; text-line-through: none;
            mso-pattern: #DAEEF3 none" width="469" height="19">
            Understanding Timing Errors Patterns</td>
          <td class="auto-style16" style="text-underline-style: none;
            text-line-through: none; mso-pattern: #DAEEF3 none"> Yuanbo
            Fan</td>
          <td class="auto-style16" style="text-underline-style: none;
            text-line-through: none; mso-pattern: #DAEEF3 none">
            Northwestern</td>
        </tr>
        <tr height="19">
          <td class="auto-style17" style="height: 14.4pt; width: 352pt;
            text-underline-style: none; text-line-through: none;"
            width="469" height="19"> VMM-based Emulation of Intel
            Hardware Transactional Memory</td>
          <td class="auto-style18" style="text-underline-style: none;
            text-line-through: none;"> Maciej Swiech</td>
          <td class="auto-style18" style="text-underline-style: none;
            text-line-through: none;"> Northwestern</td>
        </tr>
        <tr height="19">
          <td class="auto-style15" style="height: 14.4pt; width: 352pt;
            text-underline-style: none; text-line-through: none;
            mso-pattern: #DAEEF3 none" width="469" height="19"> Compiler
            optimization for massively parallel data flow</td>
          <td class="auto-style16" style="text-underline-style: none;
            text-line-through: none; mso-pattern: #DAEEF3 none"> Timothy
            Armstrong</td>
          <td class="auto-style16" style="text-underline-style: none;
            text-line-through: none; mso-pattern: #DAEEF3 none">
            UChicago</td>
        </tr>
        <tr height="38">
          <td class="auto-style17" style="height: 28.8pt; width: 352pt;
            text-underline-style: none; text-line-through: none;"
            width="469" height="38"> The 10x10 Project: Can we have both
            extreme energy efficiency and programmability?</td>
          <td class="auto-style18" style="text-underline-style: none;
            text-line-through: none;"> Raihan ur Rasool</td>
          <td class="auto-style18" style="text-underline-style: none;
            text-line-through: none;"> UChicago</td>
        </tr>
        <tr height="19">
          <td class="auto-style15" style="height: 14.4pt; width: 352pt;
            text-underline-style: none; text-line-through: none;
            mso-pattern: #DAEEF3 none" width="469" height="19"> When is
            Multi-version Checkpointing Needed?</td>
          <td class="auto-style16" style="text-underline-style: none;
            text-line-through: none; mso-pattern: #DAEEF3 none"> Guoming
            Lu</td>
          <td class="auto-style16" style="text-underline-style: none;
            text-line-through: none; mso-pattern: #DAEEF3 none">
            UChicago</td>
        </tr>
        <tr height="19">
          <td class="auto-style17" style="height: 14.4pt; width: 352pt;
            text-underline-style: none; text-line-through: none;"
            width="469" height="19"> MinimaLT: Minimal Latency
            Networking Through Better Security</td>
          <td class="auto-style18" style="text-underline-style: none;
            text-line-through: none;"> Xu Zhang</td>
          <td class="auto-style18" style="text-underline-style: none;
            text-line-through: none;"> UIC</td>
        </tr>
        <tr height="19">
          <td class="auto-style15" style="height: 14.4pt; width: 352pt;
            text-underline-style: none; text-line-through: none;
            mso-pattern: #DAEEF3 none" width="469" height="19"> Scalable
            Authentication Infrastructure</td>
          <td class="auto-style16" style="text-underline-style: none;
            text-line-through: none; mso-pattern: #DAEEF3 none"> Wenyuan
            Fei</td>
          <td class="auto-style16" style="text-underline-style: none;
            text-line-through: none; mso-pattern: #DAEEF3 none"> UIC</td>
        </tr>
        <tr height="19">
          <td class="auto-style17" style="height: 14.4pt; width: 352pt;
            text-underline-style: none; text-line-through: none;"
            width="469" height="19"> Simple and Secure Networking</td>
          <td class="auto-style18" style="text-underline-style: none;
            text-line-through: none;"> Yaohua Li</td>
          <td class="auto-style18" style="text-underline-style: none;
            text-line-through: none;"> UIC</td>
        </tr>
        <tr height="19">
          <td class="auto-style15" style="height: 14.4pt; width: 352pt;
            text-underline-style: none; text-line-through: none;
            mso-pattern: #DAEEF3 none" width="469" height="19">
            Automatic Memory Deduplication Support in Hypervisor</td>
          <td class="auto-style16" style="text-underline-style: none;
            text-line-through: none; mso-pattern: #DAEEF3 none">
            Fangzhou Yao</td>
          <td class="auto-style16" style="text-underline-style: none;
            text-line-through: none; mso-pattern: #DAEEF3 none"> UIUC</td>
        </tr>
      </tbody>
    </table>
    <p> Note that * denotes undergraduate students. </p>
    <br>
    <h4>Location</h4>
    <p class="style9">The 2nd Greater Chicago Area Systems Research
      (GCASR) Workshop will take place at:</p>
    Louis Room, Norris University Center 205B
    <div>Northwestern University</div>
    <div>1999 Campus Drive</div>
    <div>Evanston, IL 60208</div>
    <div><br>
    </div>
    <div>Map to Norris University Center:</div>
    <div><a
href="http://maps.northwestern.edu/#latlngz=42.053%2C-87.673%2C17&lookupid=110">http://maps.northwestern.edu/#latlngz=42.053%2C-87.673%2C17&lookupid=110</a></div>
    <div><br>
    </div>
    <div>Norris Floor Plan</div>
    <div><a href="http://www.norris.northwestern.edu/about/floor-plans">http://www.norris.northwestern.edu/about/floor-plans</a>/</div>
    <br>
    Northwestern University is located on the North Shore of the Chicago
    area. Northwestern can be conveniently accessed via the L Train
    (take the Purple Line to Noyes Stop, walk East 4 blocks to the main
    campus) 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>.<br>
    <h4>Organization</h4>
    <strong>Chairs</strong>
    <ul>
      <li><a href="http://www.cs.iit.edu/%7Eiraicu/index.html">Ioan
          Raicu</a>, Illinois Institute of Technology & Argonne
        National Laboratory, USA</li>
      <li><a href="http://users.eecs.northwestern.edu/%7Ehardav/">Nikos
          Hardavellas</a>, Northwestern University, USA</li>
    </ul>
    <p><strong>Steering Committee</strong></p>
    <ul>
      <li><a href="http://www.cs.northwestern.edu/%7Efabianb/">Fabián E.
          Bustamante</a>, Northwestern University, USA </li>
      <li> <a
href="https://sites.google.com/site/uchicagolssg/lssg/people/andrew-chien">
          Andrew A. Chien</a>, University of Chicago & Argonne
        National Laboratory, USA</li>
      <li><a href="http://www.cs.northwestern.edu/%7Epdinda/">Peter
          Dinda</a>, Northwestern University, USA</li>
      <li><a href="http://www.cs.uic.edu/Jakob/">Jakob Eriksson</a>,
        University of Illinois at Chicago, USA</li>
      <li><a
          href="http://www.mcs.anl.gov/about/people_detail.php?id=285">
          Ian Foster</a>, University of Chicago & Argonne National
        Laboratory, USA</li>
      <li><a href="http://users.eecs.northwestern.edu/%7Ehardav/">Nikos
          Hardavellas</a>, Northwestern University, USA</li>
      <li><a href="http://www.cs.iit.edu/%7Eiraicu/index.html">Ioan
          Raicu</a>, Illinois Institute of Technology & Argonne
        National Laboratory, USA</li>
      <li><a href="http://www.cs.iit.edu/%7Escs/sun/">Xian-He Sun</a>,
        Illinois Institute of Technology, USA</li>
    </ul>
    <br>
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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
Email:    <a class="moz-txt-link-abbreviated" href="mailto:iraicu@cs.iit.edu">iraicu@cs.iit.edu</a>
Web:      <a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="http://www.cs.iit.edu/~iraicu/">http://www.cs.iit.edu/~iraicu/</a>
Web:      <a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="http://datasys.cs.iit.edu/">http://datasys.cs.iit.edu/</a>
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Google:   <a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="http://scholar.google.com/citations?user=jE73HYAAAAAJ">http://scholar.google.com/citations?user=jE73HYAAAAAJ</a>    
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