Paper Presentations for CS7680 (Special Topics in Systems)

For each class where there will be presentations of papers (with the pdf of the paper found online), please scan the papers in advance that will be presented that day, and be prepared to ask questions. If I do not hear enough discussion from the audience, then I will call on individual students in the audience with my own personal questions about the paper, and ask them for their opinions.

As before, my goal is to encourage real technical communication in a non-threatening environment. It will be my responsibility to make sure that no student feels embarassed or on the spot. But it will also be your responsibility to be prepared with either your own opinions and comments, or else your own questions of clarification.

If this is done right (and that is my responsibility), I strongly believe that you will all find this a tremendously empowering experience that you can also take away with you beyond the classroom.

1. Friday, Jan. 27
   • DTHREADS: Efficient Deterministic Multithreading Liu, T., Curtsinger, C., and Berger, E. D. (2011, October). In Proceedings of the Twenty-Third ACM Symposium on Operating Systems Principles (pp. 327-336). ACM. (pdf)
     (presented by Gregory Price)
   • Xen and the art of virtualization. Barham, Paul, Boris Dragovic, Keir Fraser, Steven Hand, Tim Harris, Alex Ho, Rolf Neugebauer, Ian Pratt, and Andrew Warfield, (2003, October). In ACM SIGOPS operating systems review (Vol. 37, No. 5, pp. 164-177). ACM. (pdf)
     (presented by Rohan Garg)
2. Tuesday, Jan. 31
   • Invited speaker (Ignacio M. Llorente):
     "Bringing Private Cloud Computing to HPC and Science",
     Ignacio M. Llorente
     (visiting scholar at Harvard University; full professor at Complutense University; and project director at OpenNebula)
3. Friday, Feb. 3
   • Memory resource management in VMware ESX server. Carl A. Waldspurger. SIGOPS Oper. Syst. Rev., 36(SI):181-194, 2002. (pdf)
     (presented by Jiajun Cao)
4. Tuesday, Feb. 7
   • OpenStack: Toward an Open-Source Solution for Cloud Computing , Sefraoui, O., Aissaoui, M., and Eleuldj, M. (2012). International Journal of Computer Applications, 55(3). (pdf) (and a selected OpenNebula paper will be added)
     (presented by Austin Walker)
5. Friday, Feb. 10
   • Picocenter: supporting long-lived, mostly-idle applications in cloud environments, Liang Zhang, James Litton, Frank Cangialosi, Theophilus Benson, Dave Levin, Alan Mislove, EuroSys 2016: 16 pages (pdf) (presented by Connor Zanin)
6. Tuesday, Feb. 14
   • Turk, A., Gudimetla, R. S., Kaynar, E. U., Hennessey, J., Tikale, S., Desnoyers, P., and Krieger, O. (2016, June). An experiment on bare-metal bigdata provisioning. In 8th USENIX Workshop on Hot Topics in Cloud Computing (Hot-Cloud 16), Denver, CO. (pdf) (presented by Kan Xu)
7. Friday, Feb. 17
   • Invited Speaker (Kapil Arya):
     Tesseract: Reconciling Guest I/O and Hypervisor Swapping in a VM, Kapil Arya, Yury Baskakov, Alex Garthwaite, Virtual Execution Environments (VEE'14); and
     VSwapper: a Memory Swapper for Virtualized Environments, Amit, Nadav and Tsafrir, Dan and Schuster, Assaf Proc. of 19th Int. Conf. on Architectural Support for Programming Languages and Operating Systems (ASPLOS'14)
     (presented by Kapil Arya)
8. Friday, Feb. 24
   • Fine-Grained User-Space Security through Virtualization, Payer, Mathias, and Thomas R. Gross. ACM SIGPLAN Notices 46.7 (ASPLOS'11), (2011) pp. 157-168 (pdf) (presented by Pranay Surana)
   • Brainstorming on a new project: how to improve the Slurm batch queue policies
     (presented by Manuel Rodríguez Pascual, CIEMAT, Madrid (select "Welcome" in upper right corner for English))
9. Tuesday, Feb. 28
   • Continuation of talk by Manuel Rodríguez Pascual
   • Rethinking the library OS from the top down, Porter, D. E., Boyd-Wickizer, S., Howell, J., Olinsky, R., and Hunt, G. C. (2011, March). In ACM SIGPLAN Notices (Vol. 46, No. 3, pp. 291-304). ACM. (pdf)
     (presented by Kumar Aakash)
10. Friday, Mar. 3
    • Improving Agility and Elasticity in Bare-metal Clouds, Omote, Yushi, Takahiro Shinagawa, and Kazuhiko Kato, ACM SIGARCH Computer Architecture News. Vol. 43. No. 1. ACM, 2015 (pdf)
      (presented by Apoorve Mohan)
    • (Talk by Sumit Ghosh postponed due to conflict. We will have an extended discussion of the talk by Apoorve Mohan, followed by brief presentations by class members of their "story" for their project.)

• Week of Mar. 7: Spring Break

11. Tuesday, Mar. 14
    • SNOW DAY: No class
12. Friday, Mar. 17
    • Condor -- a Hunter of Idle Workstations, Litzkow, Michael J., Miron Livny, and Matt W. Mutka, Distributed Computing Systems, 1988., 8th International Conference on. IEEE, 1988 (pdf)
      (presented by Sumit Ghosh)
13. Tuesday, Mar. 21
    • SPIDER: Stealthy Binary Program Instrumentation and Debugging Via Hardware Virtualization, Zhui Deng, Xiangyu Zhang and Dongyan Xu, Proc. of 29th Annual Computer Security Applications Conf. (ACSAC'13), pp. 289--298, ACM Press (2013) (pdf)
      (presented by Twinkle Jain)
      NOTE: This will be a short talk (overview only, at most 20 minutes, followed by extended discussion. Twinkle will also lead the discussion, and she will provide additional details as needed, to facilitate the discussion.)
    • STUDENT PROJECT: Greg Price (Title: To be announced) Greg Price presented a first version of his project report as a follow-on with the potential to improve on Spider.
14. Friday, Mar. 31
    • "Virtual Memory Management in the VAX/VMS Operating System", H.M. Levy and P.H. Lipman, IEEE Computer, Vol. 15, issue 3, (1982): pp. 35--41 (pdf)
      (presented by Jae Hoon Kim)

1. No future talks scheduled at this time.