Program Day 1 (4 June 2012)
| 8:30 | Registration |
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| 9:30 | Welcome |
| 9:45 | Keynote: To Cloud or Not To. The Economics of Cloud Computing OR Why and When Storing Data in Clouds is Not a Good Idea, Radu Sion (Stony Brook University) (Presentation) |
| 10:45 | Break |
| Session 1 - Web Chair: Michael Factor |
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| 11:15 | Comparing High-performance Multi-core Web-server Architectures, Ashif S. Harji, Peter A. Buhr, Tim Brecht (University of Waterloo) |
| 11:40 | Methodologies for Generating HTTP Streaming Video Workloads to Evaluate Web Server Performance, Jim Summers, Tim Brecht (University of Waterloo), Derek Eager (University of Saskatchewan), Bernard Wong (University of Waterloo) |
| 12:05 | On Extracting Session Data from Activity Logs (short paper), David Mehrzadi, Dror G. Feitelson (Hebrew University) |
| 12:20 | Short Break |
| Session 2 - Memory & Prediction Chair: Dror Feitelson |
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| 12:40 | On Open Nesting in Distributed Transactional Memory, Alexandru Turcu, Binoy Ravindran (Virginia Tech) |
| 13:05 | Optimizing Indirect Branches in a System-level Dynamic Binary Translator, Toshihiko Koju (IBM Research Tokyo), Xin Tong, Ali Ijaz Sheikh (IBM Canada), Moriyoshi Ohara, Toshio Nakatani (IBM Research Tokyo) |
| 13:30 | Lunch (sponsored by IBM) |
| Session 3 - Scheduling Chair: Peter Desnoyers |
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| 14:30 | Improving Application Responsiveness with the BFQ Disk I/O Scheduler, Paolo Valente, Mauro Andreolini (Università di Modena e Reggio Emilia) |
| 14:55 | An Experimental Evaluation of Real-Time DVFS Scheduling Algorithms, Sonal Saha, Binoy Ravindran (Virginia Tech) |
| 15:20 | Processing Data Streams with Hard Real-Time Constraints on Heterogeneous Multi-GPU Systems, Uri Verner, Assaf Schuster (Technion -- Israel Institute of Technology), Avi Mendelson (Microsoft & Technion -- Israel Institute of Technology), Mark Silberstein (University of Texas at Austin) |
| 15:45 | Short Break |
| 16:05 | Keynote: Full Speed in Reverse -- Why Reverse Engineering Helps to Protect Your Programs, Herbert Bos (Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam) (Presentation) |
| 17:05 | Posters |
| 18:05 | End of Day #1 |
Program Day 2 (5 June 2012)
| 8:30 | Registration |
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| 9:00 | Keynote: ACID: The Wrong Way to Think About Concurrency, Emmett Witchel (University of Texas at Austin) |
| 10:00 | Short Break |
| Session 4 - Operating System & Virtualization Chair: Muli Ben-Yehuda |
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| 10:20 | GPUstore: Harnessing GPU Computing for Storage Systems in the OS Kernel, Weibin Sun, Robert Ricci (University of Utah), Matthew L. Curry (Sandia National Laboratories) |
| 10:45 | Cells: A Virtual Mobile Smartphone Architecture (highlights track, SOSP 2011 best paper), Jeremy Andrus, Christoffer Dall, Alexander Van't Hof, Oren Laadan, Jason Nieh (Columbia University) |
| 11:10 | ELI: Bare-metal Performance for I/O Virtualization (highlights track, ASPLOS 2012), Abel Gordon (IBM Research Haifa), Nadav Amit (Technion -- Israel Institute of Technology), Nadav Har'El (IBM Research Haifa), Muli Ben-Yehuda (IBM Research Haifa & Technion -- Israel Institute of Technology), Alex Landau (IBM Research Haifa), Assaf Schuster, Dan Tsafrir (Technion -- Israel Institute of Technology) |
| 11:35 | Towards Exitless and Efficient Paravirtual I/O (short paper), Abel Gordon, Nadav Har'El, Alex Landau (IBM Research Haifa), Muli Ben-Yehuda (IBM Research Haifa & Technion -- Israel Institute of Technology), Avishay Traeger (IBM Research Haifa) |
| 11:50 | Break |
| Session 5 - Solid State Drives Chair: Ethan Miller |
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| 12:20 | BVSSD: Build Built-in Versioning Flash-based Solid State Drives, Ping Huang, Ke Zhou, ChunHua Li, Hua Wang (Huazhong University of Science & Technology, Key Laboratory of Data Storage Systems, Ministry of Education of China, Wuhan National Lab for Optoelectronics) |
| 12:45 | Analytic Modeling of SSD Write Performance, Peter Desnoyers (Northeastern University) |
| 13:10 | SAC: Rethinking Cache Replacement Policy for SSD-based Storage Systems, Zhiguang Chen, Nong Xiao, Fang Liu (National University of Defense Technology) |
| 13:35 | Lunch (sponsored by IBM) |
| 15:00 | Tour & Dinner |
| 20:00 | End of Day #2 |
Program Day 3 (6 June 2012)
| 8:30 | Registration |
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| Session 6 - Storage Chair: Avishay Traeger |
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| 9:00 | MyCassandra: A Cloud Storage Supporting both Read Heavy and Write Heavy Workloads, Shunsuke Nakamura, Kazuyuki Shudo (Tokyo Institute of Technology) |
| 9:25 | Reducing Impact of Data Fragmentation Caused By In-Line Deduplication, Michal Kaczmarczyk, Marcin Barczynski, Wojciech Kilian, Cezary Dubnicki (9LivesData, LLC) |
| 9:50 | Understanding Data Survivability in Archival Storage Systems, Yan Li, Ethan L. Miller, Darrell D. E. Long (UC Santa Cruz) |
| 10:15 | Insights for Data Reduction in Primary Storage: A Practical Analysis (short paper), Maohua Lu, David Chambliss, Joseph Glider, Cornel Constantinescu (IBM Almaden Research Center) |
| 10:30 | Break |
| 11:00 | Keynote: The End-to-end Argument for Storage Systems, Remzi H. Arpaci-Dusseau (University of Wisconsin, Madison) (Presentation) |
| 12:00 | Concluding Remarks |
| 12:10 | Lunch Box Distribution |
| 12:30 | End of Day #3 |
| 13:30 | Beginning of the TCE'12 Conference at the Technion |