I/UCRC CERCS'13 Agenda

TENTATIVE AGENDA

Day 1: CERCS Alumni Day
Monday, Apr. 15
Location:
Klaus Advanced Computing Building 1116
266 Ferst Drive, NW, Atlanta 30332-0765

9:30-10:00AM	Opening Remarks, Kishore Ramachandran and Karsten Schwan
10:00-11:00AM	SESSION I: Technical Talks (Chair: Matthew Wolf) Large-scale machine learning on Exascale I/O stack, Arnab Paul (Intel) Data Management Issues for Exascale Platforms, Jay Lofstead (Sandia) Highly-Scalable Searchable Symmetric Encryption with Support for Boolean Queries, Marcel Rosu (IBM) Outcome Based Business, Ajay Mohindra (IBM TJ Watson)
11:00-12:00PM	Panel I: Internet of Things (Moderator: Ada Gavrilovska) Panelists: Margaret Loper (GTRI), Vibby Gottemukkala (CAMP Systems), Rajnish Kumar (TechTalks.TV), Michael Covington (Cisco), Vibhore Kumar (IBM Research)
12:00-1:30PM	Lunch and Open Mike (reminisce on your days at Tech, including "faculty roast")
1:30-2:30PM	SESSION II: Lightning Round (Chair: Greg Eisenhauer) Henrique Paques (HP) Martin Davis, Jr. (Consultant) Michael Covington (Cisco) Lakshmish Ramaswamy (UGA) Rajnish Kumar (TechTalks.TV) Vibby Gottemukkala (CAMP Systems) Li Xiong (Emory) Mohammad Abbasi (ORNL) George Riley (Georgia Tech, ECE) Shun Cheung (Emory) Vibhore Kumar (IBM Research) Aaron Zollman (Endgame)
2:30-3:30PM	PANEL II: How to Succeed in Life after PhD? (Moderator: George Riley) Panelists: Lakshmish Ramaswamy (UGA), Shun Cheung (Emory), Li Xiong (Emory), Martin Davis Jr. (Consultant), Mohammad Abbasi (ORNL), Henrique Paques (HP)
3:30-5:00PM	Free time
5:00-6:30PM	POSTER SESSION
7:00PM	Dinner at Greg Eisenhauer's home

Day 2: CERCS Industry Advisory Board Meeting
Tuesday, Apr. 16
Location:
Klaus Advanced Computing Building 1116
266 Ferst Drive, NW, Atlanta 30332-0765

8:30-9:00AM	Registration and Breakfast
9:00-10:00AM	Welcome, Lance Fortnow, Chair, School of Computer Science Overview of CERCS Activities, Karsten Schwan
10:05-11:45AM	SESSION I: Cloud and Datacenter Systems (CERCS Graduating PhD Students) System for Troubleshooting Big Data Applications in Large Scale Data Centers, Chengwei Wang Memory-Efficient GroupBy-Aggregate with Compressed Buffer Trees, Hrishikesh Amur Moonkyung Ryu An Automated Approach to Create, Manage and Analyze Large-scale Experiments for Elastic N-tier Applications in Computing Clouds, Deepal Jayasinghe An Analysis of Virtual Machine Live Migrations in the Wild, Mukil Kesavan Detecting Transient Bottlenecks in n-Tier Applications through Fine-Grained Analysis, Qingyang Wang Cura: A Cost-optimized Model for MapReduce in a Cloud, Balaji Palanisamy
11:45-1:00PM	Lunch/Discussions
1:00-3:00PM	PANEL I: Cloud Technology -- Open Issues and New Directions Panel Organizers: Alan Ganek, Karsten Schwan Panelists: Ric Telford (IBM); Orran Krieger (BU); Stuart Feldman (Google); Edwin Marcial (ICE); Molham Aref (LogicBlox); Ramanan Shanmugan (SunGuard); Scott Klasky (ORNL); Dejan Milojicic (HP); Michael Kozuch (Intel)
3:00-3:30PM	Break
3:30-4:30PM	SESSION II: Clouds and Embedded/Mobile Systems Device Clouds: Integrating Edge Devices to Deliver End User Services, Ada Gavrilovska (School of CS) Rethinking Cloud Architecture for Mobile Multimedia Applications, Babu Pillai (Intel) Mobile Computing in Cirrus Clouds: The Challenge of Intermittent Connectivity, Mostafa Ammar (School of CS)
4:30-6:00PM	POSTER SESSION
6:30-8:30PM	Visitors, CERCS Industry and Advisory Board Dinner

Day 3: CERCS Industry Advisory Board Meeting
Wednesday, Apr. 17
Location:
Klaus Advanced Computing Building 1116
266 Ferst Drive, NW, Atlanta 30332-0765

8:30-9:00AM	Registration and Breakfast
9:00-9:15AM	Welcome, Sudhakar Yalamanchili, School of ECE
9:15-10:45AM	SESSION III: Power, Thermal and Reliability Challenges New Rules: Scaling Performance for Extreme Scale Computing , Sudhakar Yalamanchili (School of ECE) Adaptive Circuits for Power and Thermal Management, Saibal Mukhopadhyay (School of ECE) Coordinated Architecture - Multi-Physics Modeling and Reliability Analysis, William Song (School of ECE)
10:45-11:00AM	Break
11:00-12:00PM	SESSION IV: Multicore Memory Systems A Mostly-Clean DRAM Cache for Effective Hit Speculation and Self-Balancing Dispatch, Jaewoong Sim (School of CS) Achieving Dual Benefits of PCM by Reducing Persistence Overheads, Sudarsun Kannan (School of CS)
12:00-1:00PM	Lunch/Discussions
1:00-2:30PM	SESSION V: Multicore Systems, Performance and Power Consumption Virtual Platforms - Hypervisor Methods to Improve Performance and Isolation properties in Shared Multicore Servers, Priyanka Tembey (School of CS) Oncilla - A Managed GAS-based Runtime for Accelerating Data Warehousing Queries, Jeff Young (School of ECE) Software-controlled Transparent Management of Heterogeneous Memory Resources in Virtualized Systems, Vishal Gupta (School of CS) Red Fox - An Execution Environment for Data Warehousing Applications on GPUs, Haicheng Wu (School of ECE)
2:30-3:00PM	Wrap-Up and Thanks, Karsten Schwan