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Conference

Tuesday, 19 April

8.30-9.00

Registration - Sherfield Building Foyer

9.00-9.30

Opening - The Great Hall, Sherfield Building

9.30-10.30

Research Session 1: Multicore Systems - Evangelia Kalyvianaki - The Great Hall, Sherfield Building

• The Linux Scheduler: A Decade of Wasted Cores. Jean-Pierre Lozi (Université de Nice Sophia-Antipolis), Baptiste Lepers (Ecole Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne), Justin Funston (University of British Columbia), Fabien Gaud (Coho Data), Vivien Quéma (Grenoble INP / ENSIMAG), Alexandra Fedorova (University of British Columbia) DOI

• vScale: Automatic and Efficient Processor Scaling for SMP Virtual Machines. Luwei Cheng (Facebook), Jia Rao (University of Colorado, Colorado Springs), Francis C.M. Lau (The University of Hong Kong) DOI

• Application-specific Quantum for Multi-core Platform Scheduler. Boris Teabe, Alain Tchana, Daniel Hagimont (IRIT-INPT) DOI

10.30-11.00

Break - Queen's Tower Rooms, Sherfield Building

11.00-12.20

Research Session 2: Big Data - Derek Murray - The Great Hall, Sherfield Building

• GeePS: Scalable Deep Learning on Distributed GPUs with a GPU-specialized Parameter Server. Henggang Cui, Hao Zhang, Gregory R. Ganger, Phillip B. Gibbons, Eric P. Xing (Carnegie Mellon University) DOI

• STRADS: A Distributed Framework for Scheduled Model Parallel Machine Learning. Jin Kyu Kim (Carnegie Mellon University), Qirong Ho (Institute of Infocomm Research, A*STAR), Seunghak Lee, Xun Zheng, Wei Dai, Garth Gibson, Eric Xing (Carnegie Mellon University) DOI

• Flint: Batch-Interactive Data-Intensive Processing on Transient Servers. Prateek Sharma, Tian Guo, Xin He, David Irwin, Prashant Shenoy (University of Massachusetts Amherst) DOI

• Hold 'em or Fold 'em? Aggregation Queries under Performance Variations. Gautam Kumar (UC Berkeley), Ganesh Ananthanarayanan (Microsoft Research), Sylvia Ratnasamy, Ion Stoica (UC Berkeley) DOI

12.20-13.50

Lunch Break - Queen's Tower Rooms, Sherfield Building

The lunch break, generously supported by Hewlett Packard Enterprise, will take place at the Queen's Tower Rooms.

13.50-15.10

Research Session 3: Energy and Power - Marco Canini - The Great Hall, Sherfield Building

• Increasing Large-Scale Data Center Capacity by Statistical Power Control. Guosai Wang, Shuhao Wang (Tsinghua University), Bing Luo (Wayne State University), Xin Jin (Princeton University), Yinghang Zhu, Wenjun Yang (Baidu Inc.), Longbo Huang (Tsinghua University), Weisong Shi (Wayne State University), Dianming Hu (Baidu Inc.), Wei Xu (Tsinghua University) DOI

• Exploiting Variability for Energy Optimization of Parallel Program. Wim Lavrijsen, Costin Iancu, Wibe de Jong (Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory), Xin Chen, Karsten Schwan (Georgia Institute of Technology) DOI

• Oasis: Energy Proportionality with Hybrid Server Consolidation. Junji Zhi (University of Toronto), Nilton Bila (IBM T.J. Watson Research Center), Eyal de Lara (University of Toronto) DOI

• Crayon: Saving Power through Shape and Color Approximation on Next-Generation Displays. Phillip Stanley-Marbell (MIT), Virginia Estellers (UCLA), Martin Rinard (MIT) DOI

15.10-15.40

Break - Queen's Tower Rooms, Sherfield Building

15.40-17.00

Research Session 4: Heterogeneous and Non-volatile Memory Systems - Kimberly Keeton - The Great Hall, Sherfield Building

• A High Performance File System for Non-Volatile Main Memory. Jiaxin Ou, Jiwu Shu, Youyou Lu (Department of Computer Science and Technology, Tsinghua University) DOI

• pVM - Persistent Virtual Memory for Efficient Capacity Scaling and Object Storage. Sudarsun Kannan, Ada Gavrilovska, Karsten Schwan (Georgia Institute of Technology) DOI

• zExpander: a Key-value Cache with both High Performance and Fewer Misses. Xingbo Wu (Wayne State University), Li Zhang, Yandong Wang, Yufei Ren, Michel Hack (IBM Thomas J. Watson Research Center), Song Jiang (Wayne State University) DOI

• Data Tiering in Heterogeneous Memory Systems. Subramanya R Dulloor, Amitabha Roy (Intel Labs), Zheguang Zhao (Brown University), Narayanan Sundaram, Nadathur Satish, Rajesh Sankaran, Jeff Jackson (Intel Labs), Karsten Schwan (Georgia Institute of Technology) DOI

17.00-19.00

Poster Session & Ale Event - Queen's Tower Rooms, Sherfield Building

The Poster Session & Ale Event, generously supported by Cisco, will take place at the Queen's Tower Rooms.

Wednesday, 20 April

8.30-9.00

Registration - Sherfield Building Foyer

9.00-10.20

Research Session 5: Operating Systems - Edouard Bugnion - The Great Hall, Sherfield Building

• Best Paper Award A Study of Modern Linux API Usage and Compatibility: What to Support When You're Supporting. Chia-Che Tsai, Bhushan Jain, Nafees Ahmed Abdul, Donald E. Porter (Stony Brook University) DOI

• BB: Booting Booster for Consumer Electronics with Modern OS. Geunsik Lim, MyungJoo Ham (Samsung Electronics) DOI

• Shared Address Translation Revisited. Xiaowan Dong, Sandhya Dwarkadas (University of Rochester), Alan Cox (Rice University) DOI

• POSIX Abstractions in Modern Operating Systems: The Old, the New, and the Missing. Vaggelis Atlidakis (Columbia Univesity), Jeremy Andrus, Roxana Geambasu, Dimitris Mitropoulos, Jason Nieh (Columbia University) DOI

10.20-10.50

Break - Queen's Tower Rooms, Sherfield Building

10.50-12.10

Research Session 6: Networks - Oriana Riva - The Great Hall, Sherfield Building

• JUGGLER: A Practical Reordering Resilient Network Stack for Datacenters. Yilong Geng (Stanford University), Vimalkumar Jeyakumar (Tetration Analytics), Abdul Kabbani (Google), Mohammad Alizadeh (MIT) DOI

• Yoda: A Highly Available Layer-7 Load Balancer. Rohan Gandhi, Y. Charlie Hu (Purdue University), Ming Zhang (Microsoft) DOI

• NChecker: Saving Mobile App Developers from Network Disruptions. Xinxin Jin, Peng Huang, Tianyin Xu, Yuanyuan Zhou (University of California, San Diego) DOI

• TFC: Token Flow Control in Data Center Networks. Jiao Zhang (BUPT), Fengyuan Ren, Ran Shu, Peng Cheng (Tsinghua Univ.) DOI

12.15-13.45

Lunch Break - Queen's Tower Rooms, Sherfield Building

The lunch break, generously supported by Google, will take place at the Queen's Tower Rooms.

13.45-15.05

Research Session 7: Potpourri - Christos Kozyrakis - The Great Hall, Sherfield Building

• On the Capacity of Thermal Covert Channels in Multicores. Davide Basilio Bartolini, Philipp Miedl, Lothar Thiele (ETH Zurich) DOI

• HAFT: Hardware-Assisted Fault Tolerance. Dmitrii Kuvaiskii, Rasha Faqeh, Pramod Bhatotia (TU Dresden, Germany), Pascal Felber (University of Neuchâtel Switzerland), Christof Fetzer (TU Dresden, Germany) DOI

• Fast and General Distributed Transactions Using RDMA and HTM. Yanzhe Chen, Xinda Wei, Jiaxin Shi, Rong Chen, Haibo Chen (Shanghai Jiao Tong University) DOI

• Sinter: Low-Bandwidth Remote Access for the Visually-Impaired. Syed Masum Billah, Donald Porter, IV Ramakrishnan (Stony Brook University) DOI

15.05-15.35

Break - Queen's Tower Rooms, Sherfield Building

15.35-16.35

Research Session 8: Storage Systems - Dushyanth Narayanan - The Great Hall, Sherfield Building

• PSLO: Enforcing the Xth Percentile Latency and Throughput SLOs for Consolidated VM Storage. Ning Li (School of Computer, Huazhong University of Science and Technology, Wuhan, China), Hong Jiang (Dept. of Computer Science and Engineering, University of Texas at Arlington, USA), Dan Feng, Zhan Shi (School of Computer, Huazhong University of Science and Technology, Wuhan, China) DOI

• Flash Storage Disaggregation. Ana Klimovic, Christos Kozyrakis (Stanford University), Eno Thereska (Confluent and Imperial College London), Binu John, Sanjeev Kumar (Facebook Inc.) DOI

• Partial-Parallel-Repair (PPR): A Distributed Technique for Repairing Erasure Coded Storage. Subrata Mitra (Purdue University), Rajesh Krishna Panta, Moo-Ryong Ra (AT&T Labs-Research), Saurabh Bagchi (Purdue University) DOI

16.35-17.35

General Assembly - The Great Hall, Sherfield Building

19.30

Banquet - Grand Connaugth Rooms, 61 - 65 Great Queen Street, London, WC2B 5DA

The Eurosys 2016 banquet dinner, generously supported by VMware, will take place at the Grand Connaught Rooms in central London.

Thursday, 21 April

8.30-9.00

Registration - Sherfield Building Foyer

9.00-10.20

Research Session 9: Concurrency - Chris Rossbach - The Great Hall, Sherfield Building

• Type-Aware Transactions for Faster Concurrent Code. Nathaniel Herman (Dropbox), Jeevana Inala (MIT), Yihe Huang, Lillian Tsai, Eddie Kohler (Harvard), Barbara Liskov (MIT), Liuba Shrira (Brandeis) DOI

• Practical Condition Synchronization for Transactional Memory. Chao Wang, Michael Spear (Lehigh University) DOI

• Parallel Sections: Scaling System-Level Data-Structures. Qi Wang, Tim Stamler, Gabriel Parmer (The George Washington University) DOI

• Hardware Read-Write Lock Elision. Pascal Felber (University of Neuchatel), Shady Issa (INESC-ID/IST), Alexander Matveev (MIT), Paolo Romano (INESC-ID/IST) DOI

10.20-10.50

Break - Queen's Tower Rooms, Sherfield Building

10.50-12.20

Research Session 10: Cloud and Cluster Systems - Rodrigo Rodrigues - The Great Hall, Sherfield Building

• Best Student Paper Award TetriSched: Global Rescheduling with Adaptive Plan-ahead in Dynamic Heterogeneous Clusters. Alexey Tumanov, Timothy Zhu, Jun Woo Park (Carnegie Mellon University), Michael A. Kozuch (Intel Labs), Mor Harchol-Balter, Gregory R. Ganger (Carnegie Mellon University) DOI

• Efficient Queue Management for Cluster Scheduling. Jeff Rasley (Brown University & Microsoft), Konstantinos Karanasos, Srikanth Kandula (Microsoft), Rodrigo Fonseca (Brown University), Milan Vojnovic, Sriram Rao (Microsoft) DOI

• Picocenter: Supporting long-lived, mostly-idle applications in cloud environments. Liang Zhang (Northeastern University), James Litton, Frank Cangialosi (University of Maryland), Theophilus Benson (Duke University), Dave Levin (University of Maryland), Alan Mislove (Northeastern University) DOI

• Optimizing Distributed Actor Systems for Dynamic Interactive Services. Andrew Newell (Purdue University), Gabriel Kliot (Google), Ishai Menache (Microsoft), Aditya Gopalan (Indian Institute of Science), Soramichi Akiyama (University of Tokyo), Mark Silberstein (Technion) DOI

12.20-12.30

Closing - The Great Hall, Sherfield Building