[Swift-devel] Call for Participation: 2nd Greater Chicago Area System Research Workshop (GCASR) 2013

Ioan Raicu iraicu at cs.iit.edu
Fri Apr 19 12:36:14 CDT 2013 

    2nd Greater Chicago Area System Research Workshop (GCASR) 2013

*At Northwestern University, Evanston IL -- May 3rd, 2013

*http://datasys.cs.iit.edu/events/GCASR13/


        Overview

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 workshop program 
<cid:part1.09040806.00090209 at cs.iit.edu> has been posted. The workshop 
is free of charge (courtesy of our generous sponsors from Northwestern 
University <#Sponsors>); please register 
<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) 
by April 25th, 2013 if you would like to attend.


        Program

We are pleased to announce that the final program 
(http://datasys.cs.iit.edu/events/GCASR13/program.html) is composed of 1 
keynote presentation <cid:part4.01090609.04090600 at cs.iit.edu>, 15 oral 
presentations <#Oral_Presentations>, and 39 poster presentations 
(separated into session 1 <#Poster_Session_1> and session 2 
<#Poster_Session_2>). 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.


        Keynote Presentation

  * Pete Beckman <cid:part4.01090609.04090600 at cs.iit.edu>, Argonne
    National Laboratory


        Oral Presentations

Time 	Description
8:00 - 8:30 	Breakfast
8:30 - 8:40 	Opening Remarks
Nikos Hardavellas, Northwestern
Ioan Raicu, IIT
8:40 - 9:25 	Keynote
Pete Beckman, ANL <cid:part4.01090609.04090600 at cs.iit.edu>
	Session 1: Architecture, Embedded and Reconfigurable Systems
9:25 - 9:50 	*The 10x10 Project: Can we have both extreme energy 
efficiency and programmability?
*Andrew A. Chien, UChicago
9:50 - 10:15 	*Collectively Achieve Fairest Distribution of Discrete 
Resources with Limited Sharing: Complexity and Protocols*
Wenjing Rao, UIC
10:15 - 10:30 	Break
	Session 2: HPC, Cloud, and Warehouse-scale Computing
10:30 - 10:55 	*Warehouse-scale Computing: Challenges and Opportunities*
Nicholas Kidd, Google
10:55 - 11:20 	*Scaling Up Without Blowing Up*
Douglas Thain, Notre Dame
11:20 - 11:45 	*The Case for Limping-Hardware Tolerant Clouds *
Haryadi Gunawi, UChicago
11:45 - 12:10 	*Toward Smart HPC via Active Learning and Intelligent 
Scheduling*
Zhiling Lan, IIT
12:10 - 12:55 	Lunch
12:55 - 1:40 	Poster Session 1
Distributed Systems and Storage <#Poster_Session_1>
	Session 3: Networking and Storage
1:40 - 2:05 	*Pushing experiments to the Internet's edge *
Fabian E. Bustamante, Northwestern
2:05 - 2:30 	*Increasing Network Resiliency by Optimally Assigning 
Diverse Variants to Routing Nodes *
Cristina Nita-Rotaru, Purdue
2:30 - 2:55 	*Parallel Networks and Storage for Predictable End-to-End 
Data Movement *
Eun-Sung Jung, ANL
2:55 - 3:20 	*System Design Considerations of Big Data Processing
*Xian-He Sun, IIT
3:20 - 4:05 	Break
Poster Session 2
Architecture, Data-bases, Networking, OS, Programming Languages, and 
Security <#Poster_Session_2>
	Session 4: Operating Systems and Security
4:05 - 4:30 	*Recent Research in the V3VEE Project
*Peter Dinda, Northwestern
4:30 - 4:55 	*Ethos: A Layered Approach to Secure Applications
*Jon A Solworth, UIC
4:55 - 5:20 	*DroidChameleon: Evaluating Android Anti-malware against 
Transformation Attacks
*Yan Chen, Northwestern
	Session 5: Programming Languages and Database Systems
5:20 - 5:45 	*Diderot: a Domain-Specific Language for Portably Parallel 
Scientific Visualization and Image Analysis
*Gordon Kindlmann, UChicago
5:45 - 6:10 	*The (Potential) Perks of Integrating Provenance Support 
into Database Engines
*Boris Glavic, IIT
6:10 	Closing Remarks
Nikos Hardavellas, Northwestern
Ioan Raicu, IIT


        Poster Session 1


          Distributed Systems and Storage

Title 	Name 	Institution
A Decoupled Execution Paradigm for Data-Intensive High-End Computing 
Yanlong Yin 	IIT
Distributed Kev-Value Store on Cloud 	Tonglin Li 	IIT
Enabling and Optimizing Parallel File Write in HDFS 	Xi Yang 	IIT
FusionFS: a distributed file system for large scale data-intensive 
computing 	Dongfang Zhao 	IIT
HPC Analytics for Extreme Scale Computing 	Li Yu 	IIT
MATRIX: MAny-Task computing execution fabRIc at eXascales 	Anupam 
Rajendran 	IIT
Measuring Power Consumption on IBM Blue Gene/Q 	Sean Wallace 	IIT
NoVoHT: a Lightweight Dynamic Persistent NoSQL Key/Value Store 	*Kevin 
Brandstatter 	IIT
Power-Aware Job Scheduling on Production HPC Systems 	Zhou Zhou 	IIT
Toward Petascale Cosmology Simulations 	Jingjin Wu 	IIT
Towards a Provenance-aware Distributed Filesystem 	Chen Shou 	IIT
Towards Distributed Batch Scheduling 	Xiaobing Zhou 	IIT
Understanding the cost of the cloud for scientific applications 	Iman 
Sadooghi 	IIT
Community sensing under (soft) control 	John Rula 	Northwestern
Blockus: Efficient Out-of-Core Computation Using Blocks 	Erik Bodzsar 
UChicago
Exploiting Global View for Resilience (GVR) 	Hajime Fujita 	UChicago
The Global View Resilience Model 	Zachary Rubenstein 	UChicago
Linking and Loading Scientific Workflows 	Casey Robinson 	Notre Dame
Scaling Work Queue for the Cloud with Hierarchy 	Michael Albrecht 	Notre 
Dame
Software Engineering Challenges and Tools in Distributed Computing 
Workspace for Civil Engineering Applications 	Peter Sempolinski 	Notre Dame


        Poster Session 2


          Architecture, Data-bases, Networking, OS, Programming
          Languages, and Security

Title 	Name 	Institution
Mastering chaos with cost-effective sampling 	Mona Rahimi 	DePaul
Accelerating Scientific Workflow Applications with GPUs 	*Dustin 
Shahidehpour 	IIT
Enabling Dynamic Memory Management Support for MTC on NVIDIA GPUs 	*Ben 
Grimmer 	IIT
GeMTC: GPU enabled Many-Task Computing 	Scott J. Krieder 	IIT
Understanding the Costs of Many-Task Computing Workloads
on Intel Xeon Phi Coprocessors 	*Jeffrey Johnson 	IIT
Characterizing Broadband Services with Dasu 	Zachary Bischof 	Northwestern
Elastic Fidelity: Trading-off Computational Accuracy for Energy 
Reduction 	Georgios Tziantzioulis 	Northwestern
Experiments at the Internet's Edge with Dasu 	Mario A. Sanchez 
Northwestern
Galaxy: Pushing the Power and Bandwidth Walls
with Optically Connected Disintegrated Processors 	Yigit Demir 
Northwestern
Shifting GEARS to Enable Guest-context Virtual Services 	Kyle Hale 
Northwestern
Understanding Timing Errors Patterns 	Yuanbo Fan 	Northwestern
VMM-based Emulation of Intel Hardware Transactional Memory 	Maciej 
Swiech 	Northwestern
Compiler optimization for massively parallel data flow 	Timothy 
Armstrong 	UChicago
The 10x10 Project: Can we have both extreme energy efficiency and 
programmability? 	Raihan ur Rasool 	UChicago
When is Multi-version Checkpointing Needed? 	Guoming Lu 	UChicago
MinimaLT: Minimal Latency Networking Through Better Security 	Xu Zhang 	UIC
Scalable Authentication Infrastructure 	Wenyuan Fei 	UIC
Simple and Secure Networking 	Yaohua Li 	UIC
Automatic Memory Deduplication Support in Hypervisor 	Fangzhou Yao 	UIUC

Note that * denotes undergraduate students.


        Location

The 2nd Greater Chicago Area Systems Research (GCASR) Workshop will take 
place at:

Louis Room, Norris University Center 205B
Northwestern University
1999 Campus Drive
Evanston, IL 60208

Map to Norris University Center:
http://maps.northwestern.edu/#latlngz=42.053%2C-87.673%2C17&lookupid=110

Norris Floor Plan
http://www.norris.northwestern.edu/about/floor-plans/

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 http://www.eecs.northwestern.edu/resources/for-visitors.html.


        Organization

*Chairs*

  * Ioan Raicu <http://www.cs.iit.edu/%7Eiraicu/index.html>, Illinois
    Institute of Technology & Argonne National Laboratory, USA
  * Nikos Hardavellas <http://users.eecs.northwestern.edu/%7Ehardav/>,
    Northwestern University, USA

*Steering Committee*

  * Fabián E. Bustamante <http://www.cs.northwestern.edu/%7Efabianb/>,
    Northwestern University, USA
  * Andrew A. Chien
    <https://sites.google.com/site/uchicagolssg/lssg/people/andrew-chien>,
    University of Chicago & Argonne National Laboratory, USA
  * Peter Dinda <http://www.cs.northwestern.edu/%7Epdinda/>,
    Northwestern University, USA
  * Jakob Eriksson <http://www.cs.uic.edu/Jakob/>, University of
    Illinois at Chicago, USA
  * Ian Foster <http://www.mcs.anl.gov/about/people_detail.php?id=285>,
    University of Chicago & Argonne National Laboratory, USA
  * Nikos Hardavellas <http://users.eecs.northwestern.edu/%7Ehardav/>,
    Northwestern University, USA
  * Ioan Raicu <http://www.cs.iit.edu/%7Eiraicu/index.html>, Illinois
    Institute of Technology & Argonne National Laboratory, USA
  * Xian-He Sun <http://www.cs.iit.edu/%7Escs/sun/>, Illinois Institute
    of Technology, USA


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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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Distributed Systems Laboratory, MCS/ANL
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