• RETREAT AGENDA
• Contacts
  
  
• Retreat Resources: (links will be added close to the event)
  • Posters
  • Talks
  • Attendees
  • ISTC-CC Graduating Students

Wednesday, November 28

Optional Events at Holiday Inn
100 Lytton Avenue, Pittsburgh, PA 15213

Thursday, November 29

Event Location Collaborative Innovation Center (CIC)
4th floor, #410
Carnegie Mellon University

8:30-8:55 am

Continental breakfast / Registration

Welcome
Jeff Parkhurst (Intel, Program Director for ISTC-CC)

Opening Remarks
Wen-Hann Wang (Intel Labs, Executive Sponsor for ISTC-CC)

Center Overview
Phil Gibbons (Intel-PI) / Greg Ganger (CMU-PI)

Break

Keynote Speaker
Balint Fleischer (Intel Data Center Group, General Manager)
Clumpy Data Centers

Poster Previews  (30 seconds each)
Chaired by Babu Pillai (Intel Labs, ISTC-CC, Research Scientist)

Lunch / Poster Session 1

Poster Session 2

Break

Research Talks Session 1

Garth Gibson (CMU)
Convergence of BigData Infrastructure for HPC and
Internet Services

Carlos Guestrin (CMU/Washington)
GraphLab2: A Distributed Abstraction for Large-Scale Machine Learning

Ganesh Ananthanarayanan (UC Berkeley, PhD student)
PACMan: Coordinated Memory Caching for Parallel
Analytics Jobs

Break

Research Talks Session 2

Onur Mutlu (CMU)
Architecting and Exploiting Asymmetry to Accelerate Bottlenecks in the Cloud

Ada Gavrilovska (GA Tech)
Virtual Platforms: Hypervisor-level Support for Increased Consolidation

Dave Andersen (CMU)
We’re Still Having FAWN

Reception / Dinner
Pittsburgh Athletic Club
4215 5th Avenue
Pittsburgh, PA 15213

Friday, November 30

Event Location Collaborative Innovation Center (CIC),
4th floor, #410
Carnegie Mellon University

Continental breakfast

Welcome
Jeff Parkhurst / Phil Gibbons / Greg Ganger

Keynote Speaker
Das Kamhout (Intel, IT Cloud Lead, Principal Engineer)
Experiences from Intel IT

Research Talks Session 3

Ion Stoica (UC Berkeley)
Spark, Shark, and BlinkDB

Mike Freedman (Princeton)
Performance Isolation and Fairness for Multi-Tenant
Cloud Storage

Break

Research Talks Session 4

Margaret Martonosi (Princeton)
Heterogeneous Parallelism and GPU Offloading:
Optimization and Synchronization Challenges

Pieter Simoens (CMU, Post-doc)
Beyond Offload: Cloudlets for Large-Scale Video Upload

Minutes of Madness
Chaired by Michael Kaminsky (Intel Labs, ISTC-CC, Research Scientist)

Lunch with Breakout groups
Chaired by Mike Kozuch (Intel Labs, ISTC-CC, Principal Engineer)

Research Talks Session 5

Jim Cipar (CMU, PhD student)
Exploiting Data Staleness for High-performance
Machine Learning

Hrishi Amur (GA Tech, PhD student)
Memory-Efficient GroupBy-Aggregate using Compressed Buffer Trees

Ted Willke (Intel Labs, SAL, Principal Engineer)
GraphBuilder: A SAL/ISTC-CC Collaboration Story

All-hands Brainstorming
Moderated by Jeff Parkhurst (Intel)