Systems Seminar
Sponsors: Gene Cooperman
and Devesh Tiwari
Systems is the subject of how to organize computations in the presence
of limited resources (which typically requires _system_ calls). In contrast
to software engineering, systems begins with a problem for which the
machine abstraction is deficient (where this means the machine
presented by the hardware/OS/compiler/run-time library),
and one must find novel ways to improve the abstraction at the
machine level.
The figure of a merit in a community is sometimes called the
taste of that community. The best definition of taste in
systems that I have found is in this SOSP announcement:
A good paper will demonstrate that
the authors:
- are attacking a significant problem,
- have devised an interesting, compelling solution,
- have demonstrated the practicality and benefits of the solution,
- have drawn appropriate conclusions,
- have clearly described what was done, and
- have clearly articulated the advances beyond previous work.
We have discussed subjects ranging from parallel computing to overcoming
systems bottlenecks due to RAM/Network/Disk to reversible debugging via
checkpointing; to HPC; and a variety of scientific applications. This
area of research typically involves a fine interplay among algorithms,
software, and applications.
Currently Scheduled Talks (Fall, 2018 Semester)
(This systems seminar is being led jointly by Profs. Gene Cooperman
and Devesh Tiwari. Since upcoming talks are also listed, please
scroll down for the current week's talk.)
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Date: Dec. 5, 2018; 12:00 p.m. (ROOM: 114 West Village F)
Title: Intelligent Decision Making through OST (Object Storage Target)
I/O Data Analysis
Speaker: Malith Jayaweera
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Date: [DATE TENTATIVE] Nov. 7, 2018; 12:00 p.m. (ROOM: 114 West Village F)
Title: MOC overview and Bare-Metal Multiplexing
Speaker: Apoorve Mohan
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Date: Oct. 24, 2018; 12:00 p.m. (ROOM: 114 West Village F)
Title: Discussion of "Process-in-process: techniques for practical
address-space sharing" and Related Ideas
Speaker: Onesphore Ndayishimiye
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Date: Oct. 17, 2018; 12:00 p.m. (ROOM: 114 West Village F)
Title: Power Management of Overprovisioned Large-Scale
Systems for Fairness and System Throughput
Speaker: Tirthak Patel
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Date: Oct. 10, 2018; 12:00 p.m. (ROOM: 114 West Village F)
Title: "Minimizing Read Seeks in SMR Disk"
Speaker: Mohammad Hajkazemi
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Date: Oct. 3, 2018; 12:00 p.m. (ROOM: 114 West Village F)
Title: Run-time Optimization Level Switching
Speaker: Twinkle Jain
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Date: Sept. 26, 2018; 12:00 p.m. (ROOM: 114 West Village F)
Title: Discussion of "Transparent High-Speed Network Checkpoint/Restart in MPI"
from Euro-MPI'18
Speaker: Gene Cooperman
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Date: Sept. 19, 2018; 12:00 p.m. (ROOM: 114 West Village F)
Title: Overview and Organization of Systems Seminar
Speaker: Gene Cooperman and Devesh Tiwari
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