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ACCEPTED PAPERS

Please Note: This workshop is by invitation and/or acceptance of paper submission.

All sessions take place in the Auditorium unless otherwise noted.

Session papers are available to workshop registrants immediately and to everyone beginning May 18, 2009.

Sunday, May 17 | Monday, May 18 | Tuesday, May 19 | Wednesday, May 20
Sunday, May 17
6:30 p.m.–8:00 p.m. Terrace

Welcome Reception

Refreshments and snacks provided. Spouses are welcome to attend.

Monday, May 18
9:00 a.m.–10:30 a.m. Monday

Opening Remarks and Keynote Address

Remarks in Slides

Keynote Address: The City Is Here for You to Use
Adam Greenfield, Head of Design Direction, Nokia

10:30 a.m.–11:00 a.m.  Break Bar Roccia
11:00 a.m.–12:30 p.m. Monday

It's Dead, Jim

Session Chair: George Candea, EPFL

Hierarchical File Systems Are Dead
Margo Seltzer and Nicholas Murphy, Harvard School of Engineering and Applied Sciences

Paper in PDF

An End to the Middle
Colin Dixon, Arvind Krishnamurthy, and Thomas Anderson, University of Washington

Paper in HTML | PDF

No Time for Asynchrony
Marcos K. Aguilera, Microsoft Research Silicon Valley; Michael Walfish, University College London, Stanford, University of Texas at Austin

Paper in PDF

12:30 p.m.–2:00 p.m.  Lunch Ristorante
2:00 p.m.–3:30 p.m. Monday

Heads in the Clouds

Session Chair: Garth Gibson, Carnegie Mellon University and Panasas, Inc.

Computer Meteorology: Monitoring Compute Clouds
Lionel Litty, H. Andrés Lagar-Cavilla, and David Lie, University of Toronto

Paper in HTML | PDF | Slides

Wave Computing in the Cloud
Bingsheng He, Mao Yang, and Zhenyu Guo, Microsoft Research Asia; Rishan Chen, Microsoft Research Asia and Beijing University; Wei Lin, Bing Su, Hongyi Wang, and Lidong Zhou, Microsoft Research Asia

Paper in HTML | PDF | Slides

On Availability of Intermediate Data in Cloud Computations
Steven Y. Ko, Imranul Hoque, Brian Cho, and Indranil Gupta, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign

Paper in HTML | PDF

3:30 p.m.–4:00 p.m.  Break Bar Roccia
4:00 p.m.–4:15 p.m. Monday

Decide on dinner table discussion themes

4:15 p.m.–5:45 p.m. Monday

Small Is Beautiful

Session Chair: Kimberly Keeton, Hewlett-Packard Labs

Mobility Changes Everything in Low-Power Wireless Sensornets
Prabal Dutta and David Culler, University of California, Berkeley

Paper in HTML | PDF | Slides

Augmented Smartphone Applications Through Clone Cloud Execution
Byung-Gon Chun and Petros Maniatis, Intel Research Berkeley

Paper in HTML | PDF

Peloton: Coordinated Resource Management for Sensor Networks
Jason Waterman, Geoffrey Werner Challen, and Matt Welsh, School of Engineering and Applied Sciences, Harvard University

Paper in HTML | PDF | Slides

6:00 p.m.–7:30 p.m.  Dinner Ristorante

Theme discussions will be held at each table. Spouses are welcome to attend.

7:30 p.m. Monday

Dinner Discussions Continued

Refreshments will be provided.

Sunday, May 17 | Monday, May 18 | Tuesday, May 19 | Wednesday, May 20
Tuesday, May 19
9:00 a.m.–10:30 a.m. Tuesday

Things Your OS Should Do . . . But Doesn't

Session Chair: Dan S. Wallach, Rice University

Migration without Virtualization
Michael A. Kozuch, Michael Kaminsky, and Michael P. Ryan, Intel Research Pittsburgh

Paper in HTML | PDF

Operating Systems Should Provide Transactions
Donald E. Porter and Emmett Witchel, The University of Texas at Austin

Paper in HTML | PDF

Your computer is already a distributed system. Why isn't your OS?
Andrew Baumann, Simon Peter, Adrian Schüpbach, Akhilesh Singhania, and     Timothy Roscoe, ETH Zurich; Paul Barham and Rebecca Isaacs, Microsoft Research, Cambridge

Paper in HTML | PDF | Slides

10:30 a.m.–11:00 a.m.  Break Bar Roccia
11:00 a.m.–12:30 p.m. Tuesday

Hardware

Session Chair: Petros Maniatis, Intel Research Berkeley

FlashVM: Revisiting the Virtual Memory Hierarchy
Mohit Saxena and Michael M. Swift, University of Wisconsin—Madison

Paper in HTML | PDF

Operating System Support for NVM+DRAM Hybrid Main Memory
Jeffrey C. Mogul, HP Labs, Palo Alto; Eduardo Argollo, HP Labs, Barcelona, Spain; Mehul Shah, HP Labs, Palo Alto; Paolo Faraboschi, HP Labs, Barcelona, Spain

Paper in HTML | PDF | Slides

Hera-JVM: Abstracting Processor Heterogeneity Behind a Virtual Machine
Ross McIlroy and Joe Sventek, University of Glasgow

Paper in HTML | PDF | Slides

12:30 p.m.–2:00 p.m.  Lunch Ristorante
2:00 p.m.–3:30 p.m. Tuesday

Think Big

Format TBA; based in part on the dinner table discussions from the previous evening.

3:30 p.m.–4:00 p.m.  Break Bar Roccia
4:00 p.m.–5:00 p.m. Tuesday

Don't Touch That Dial

Session Chair: Michael L. Scott, University of Rochester

Security Impact Ratings Considered Harmful
Jeff Arnold, Tim Abbott, Waseem Daher, Gregory Price, Nelson Elhage, Geoffrey Thomas, and Anders Kaseorg, Massachusetts Institute of Technology

Paper in HTML | PDF

If It Ain't Broke, Don't Fix It: Challenges and New Directions for Inferring the Impact of Software Patches
Jon Oberheide, Evan Cooke, and Farnam Jahanian, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor

Paper in HTML | PDF

5:00 p.m.–5:30 p.m.  Break Bar Roccia
5:30 p.m.–7:00 p.m. Tuesday

Outrageous Opinions, Open Mic, and Happy Hour

7:00 p.m.    Dinner (on your own)
Sunday, May 17 | Monday, May 18 | Tuesday, May 19 | Wednesday, May 20
Wednesday, May 20
9:00 a.m.–10:30 a.m. Wednesday

Getting a Better Handle on Distributed Systems

Session Chair: Timothy Roscoe, ETH Zürich

Simplifying Distributed System Development
Maysam Yabandeh, Nedeljko Vasić, Dejan Kostić, and Viktor Kuncak, EPFL

Paper in HTML | PDF

Automated Experiment-Driven Management of (Database) Systems
Shivnath Babu, Nedyalko Borisov, Songyun Duan, Herodotos Herodotou, and Vamsidhar Thummala, Duke University

Paper in PDF | Slides

FLUXO: A Simple Service Compiler
Emre Kıcıman, Benjamin Livshits, and Madanlal Musuvathi, Microsoft Research

Paper in PDF

10:30 a.m.–11:00 a.m.  Break Bar Roccia
11:00 a.m.–noon Wednesday

Leveraging Emerging Technology Trends

Session Chair: Rebecca Isaacs, Microsoft Research

Reinventing Scheduling for Multicore Systems
Silas Boyd-Wickizer, Robert Morris, and M. Frans Kaashoek, Massachusetts Institute of Technology

Paper in PDF

FAWNdamentally Power-efficient Clusters
Vijay Vasudevan, Jason Franklin, David Andersen, Amar Phanishayee, and Lawrence Tan, Carnegie Mellon University; Michael Kaminsky, Intel Research, Pittsburgh; Iulian Moraru, Carnegie Mellon University

Paper in HTML | PDF | Slides

Noon–1:00 p.m. Wednesday

Report Back from Think Big session

1:00 p.m. Wednesday

Closing Remarks

Remarks in Slides

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