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:

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.

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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.)

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

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

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

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

Date: Oct. 10, 2018; 12:00 p.m. (ROOM: 114 West Village F)
Title: "Minimizing Read Seeks in SMR Disk"
Speaker: Mohammad Hajkazemi

Date: Oct. 3, 2018; 12:00 p.m. (ROOM: 114 West Village F)
Title: Run-time Optimization Level Switching
Speaker: Twinkle Jain

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

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