Workshops and Tutorials

Workshops co-organized with the main conference:

2016 Workshop on Multicore and Rack-scale Systems (MaRS'16)
2016 European Workshop on System Security (EuroSec 2016)
Workshop on Principles and Practice of Consistency for Distributed Data (PaPoC 2016)
6th Workshop on Cloud Data and Platforms (CloudDP)
3rd International Workshop on CrossCloud Infrastructures & Platforms (CrossCloud'16)
10th EuroSys Doctoral Workshop (EuroDW'16)

Tutorials:

Server Benchmarking with CloudSuite 3.0 (Monday April 18th)

2016 Workshop on Multicore and Rack-scale Systems (MaRS'16)

Boris Grot (University of Edinburgh), Simon Peter (UT Austin), Chris Rossbach (VMware Research and UT Austin)

Room: SAF 120 (Sir Alexander Fleming Building)

9.15-9.30

Welcome

9.30-10.30

Invited Talk - David Wentzlaff (Princeton University)

10.30-11.00

Coffee Break - Queen's Tower Rooms, Sherfield Building

11.00-12.30

Session 1: Multicore processing - Chris Rossbach

Operating System Process and Thread Migration in Heterogeneous Platforms. Rob Lyerly, Antonio Barbalace, Christopher Jelesnianski, Vincent Legout, Anthony Carno and Binoy Ravindran (Virginia Tech)
Basslet: an OS Runtime for Parallel Data Processing. Jana Giceva, Gerd Zellweger, Gustavo Alonso and Timothy Roscoe (ETH Zurich)
Towards Multi-tenant GPGPU: Event-driven Programming Model for System-wide Scheduling on Shared GPUs. Yusuke Suzuki (Keio University), Hiroshi Yamada (Tokyo University of Agriculture and Technology), Shinpei Kato (Nagoya University) and Kenji Kono (Keio University)

12.30-14.00

Lunch Break - Queen's Tower Rooms, Sherfield Building

14.00-15.10

Session 2: Rack-scale Computing - Boris Grot

Litmus Testing at Rack Scale. David Cock (ETH Zurich)
An Empirical Study on the NoC Architecture Based on Bidirectional Ring and Mesh Topologies. Jie Yin, Ye Liu, Shinpei Kato (Nagoya University), Hiroshi Sasaki (Columbia University) and Hiroaki Takada (Nagoya University)

15.10-15.40

Coffee Break - Queen's Tower Rooms, Sherfield Building

15.40-17.00

Panel: The End of Moore's Law and its Effects Across the System Stack. Moderator: Boris Grot (University of Edinburgh)

2016 European Workshop on System Security (EuroSec 2016)

Michalis Polychronakis (Stony Brook University) and Cristiano Giuffrida (Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam)

Room: SALC 10 (Seminar and Learning Centre, Sherfield Building)

9.00-10.30

Session 1

Welcome and Introduction. Michalis Polychronakis and Cristiano Giuffrida (Workshop Chairs)
Keynote talk: Confidential and Verifiable Cloud Computing. Manuel Costa (Microsoft Research)

10.30-11.00

Coffee Break - Queen's Tower Rooms, Sherfield Building

11.00-12.20

Session 2

DCSP: Performant Certificate Revocation a DNS-based approach. Antonios A. Chariton, Eirini Degkleri, Panagiotis Papadopoulos, Panagiotis Ilia, Evangelos P. Markatos
TOFU for OpenPGP. Neal Walfield and Werner Koch
Why Allowing Profile Name Reuse Is A Bad Idea. Enrico Mariconti, Jeremiah Onaolapo, Syed Sharique Ahmad, Nicolas Nikiforou, Manuel Egele, Nick Nikiforakis and Gianluca Stringhini

12.20-13.50

Lunch Break - Queen's Tower Rooms, Sherfield Building

13.50-15.10

Session 3

Keynote talk: How High Can You Count? A Peek into Large Malware Datasets. Davide Balzarotti (Eurecom)
A Text-Mining Approach to Explain Unwanted Behaviours. Wei Chen, David Aspinall, Andrew D. Gordon, Charles Sutton and Igor Muttik

15.10-15.40

Coffee Break - Queen's Tower Rooms, Sherfield Building

15.40-17.00

Session 4

METAlloc: Efficient and Comprehensive Metadata Management for Software Security Hardening. Istvan Haller, Erik van der Kouwe, Cristiano Giuffrida and Herbert Bos
A Transparent Defense Against USB Eavesdropping Attacks. Matthias Neugschwandtner, Anton Beitler and Anil Kurmus
LockDown: An Operating System for Achieving Service Continuity by Quarantining Principals. Gedare Bloom, Gabriel Parmer and Rahul Simha

Workshop on Principles and Practice of Consistency for Distributed Data (PaPoC 2016)

Peter Alvaro (University of California, Santa Cruz, USA), Alysson Bessani (Universidade de Lisboa, Portugal)

Room: SAF 121+122 (Sir Alexander Fleming Building)

9.00-9.50

Keynote

Consumer-view of Consistency Properties: Definition, Measurement, and Exploitation. Alan Fekete (University of Sidney)

9.50-10.30

Session 1: Verification

Towards Property-Based Consistency Verification. Paolo Viotti, Christopher Meiklejohn and Marko Vukolić
The CISE Tool: Proving Weakly-Consistent Applications Correct. Mahsa Najafzadeh, Alexey Gotsman, Hongseok Yang, Carla Ferreira and Marc Shapiro

10.30-11.00

Coffee Break - Queen's Tower Rooms, Sherfield Building

11.00-12.20

Session 2: Database Consistency Models

Serializable Eventual Consistency. Tim Coppieters, Wolfgang De Meuter and Sebastian Burckhardt
Analysing Snapshot Isolation. Andrea Cerone and Alexey Gotsman
PhysiCS: Efficient Consistent Snapshots for Scalable Snapshot Isolation. Alejandro Z. Tomsic, Tyler Crain and Marc Shapiro
Big(ger) Sets: Decomposed Delta CRDT Sets in Riak. Russell Brown, Zeeshan Lakhani and Paul Place

12.20-13.50

Lunch Break - Queen's Tower Rooms, Sherfield Building

13.50-15.10

Session 3: New Abstractions

Coordinating Distributed System Configuration Changes with Humming Consensus. Scott Fritchie
Making Weak Consistency Great Again. Valter Balegas, Nuno Preguiça, Sérgio Duarte, Carla Ferreira and Rodrigo Rodrigues
Weak Consistency and Stochastic Environments. Tobias Herb, Tim Jungnickel and Christoph Alt
Eventually Consistent Register Revisited. Marek Zawirski, Carlos Baquero, Annette Bieniusa, Nuno Preguiça and Marc Shapiro

15.10-15.40

Coffee Break - Queen's Tower Rooms, Sherfield Building

15.40-17.00

Session 4: CRDTs

The Problem with Embedded CRDT Counters and a Solution. Carlos Baquero, Paulo Sérgio Almeida and Carl Lerche
Decoupling Conflict Resolution with CDVCS. Christian Weilbach, Konrad Kühne and Annette Bieniusa
Δ-CRDTs: Making δ-CRDTs Delta-Based. Albert van der Linde, João Leitão and Nuno Preguiça
Highly-scalable Concurrent Objects. Deepthi Devaki Akkoorath and Annette Bieniusa.

6th Workshop on Cloud Data and Platforms (CloudDP)

Rui Oliveira (INESC TEC & University of Minho, Portugal), Guillaume Pierre (IRISA & Université de Rennes 1, France)

Room: Huxley 341+342 (Huxley Building)

9.00-10.30

Joint session with CrossCloud

10.30-11.00

Coffee Break - Queen's Tower Rooms, Sherfield Building

11.00-12.20

Joint session with CrossCloud

12.20-13.45

Lunch Break - Queen's Tower Rooms, Sherfield Building

13.45-15.10

Session 1

Welcome and introduction.
NG2C: N-Generational GC for Big Data Memory Management. Rodrigo Bruno and Paulo Ferreira (INESC-ID / IST, Univeristy of Lisbon)
Data Analytics for Scheduling in Hybrid HPC Environments. Abel Souza, Johan Tordsson (Umea University), Mohamad Rezaei and Erwin Laure (KTH Royal Institute of Technology)
DNA-like Data Storage Systems: An Approach to Relax Trade-offs Between Performance and Reliability. Veronica Estrada Galinanes and Pascal Felber (University of Neuchatel)
Transparent Intra-machine Full-Software-Stack Replication for Fault Tolerance. Giuliano Losa, Antonio Barbalace, Yuzhong Wen, Marina Sadini and Binoy Ravindran (Virginia Tech)

15.10-15.30

Coffee Break - Queen's Tower Rooms, Sherfield Building

15.30-16.15

Session 2

Gossip in the Clouds. Francisco Maia and Rui Oliveira (INESC TEC / University of Minho)
How to Secure Application-Level Firewalls in IaaS Clouds. Anna Giannakou (INRIA/IRISA), Louis Rilling (DGA), Christine Morin (INRIA/IRISA) and Jean-Louis Pazat (INSA/IRISA)
Software Product Lines for Multi-Cloud Microservices-Based Applications. Gustavo Sousa, Walter Rudametkin and Laurence Duchien (Ecole Centrale de Lille / INRIA)
Closing remarks.

16.15-17.15

Keynote talk: The One True Cloud. Christopher MacGown (CrossCloud)

3rd Workshop on CrossCloud Infrastructures & Platforms (CrossCloud'16)

Yehia Elkhatib (Lancaster University, UK), Mohamed Faten Zhani (École de Technologie Supérieure, Canada)

Room: Huxley 341+342 (Huxley Building)

9.00-9.10

Welcome and Introduction

9.10-10.30

Session 1: Interoperability & Provider Independence

A Semantic-Based Generic API Adapter Generation for Portable Cloud Applications. Eman Hossny, Sherif Khattab, Fatma Omara and Hesham Hassan (Cairo University)
PACOFed: Principled Access Control and Operations via Cloud Federation. Rizwan Panjwani, Sushil Bhojwani, Sudhakar Ganti (University of Victoria), Rick McGeer (University of Victoria & SAP) and Yvonne Coady (University of Victoria)
A Reference Architecture for Real-Time Microservice API Consumption. Cristian Gadea, Mircea Trifan, Dan Ionescu (University of Ottawa) and Bogdan Ionescu (Mgestyk Technologies Inc.)

10.30-11.00

Coffee and Posters - Queen's Tower Rooms, Sherfield Building

Economics of a Supercloud. Ian Kash (Microsoft Research), Qin Jia, Zhiming Shen, Weijia Song, Robbert van Renesse and Hakim Weatherspoon (Cornell University)
Model-Driven Engineering for Multi-Tenant SaaS application development. Assylbek Jumagaliyev and Jon Whittle (Lancaster University)

11.00-12.20

Session 2: Service Orchestration & Optimisation

Experiences from Building a Cross-Cloud Orchestration Tool. Daniel Baur and Jörg Domaschka (University of Ulm)
Smart Spot Instances for the Supercloud. Qin Jia, Zhiming Shen, Weijia Song, Robbert van Renesse and Hakim Weatherspoon (Cornell University)
Evaluation of SLA-based Decision Strategies for VM Scheduling in Cloud Data Centers. Andreas Kohne, Damian Pasternak (Materna GmbH), Lars Nagel (University of Mainz) and Olaf Spinczyk (TU Dortmund)

12.20-13.45

Lunch Break - Queen's Tower Rooms, Sherfield Building

13.45-15.10

Joint session with CloudDP

15.10-15.30

Coffee Break - Queen's Tower Rooms, Sherfield Building

15.30-16.15

Joint session with CloudDP

16.15-17.15

Keynote talk: "The One True Cloud". Christopher MacGown

10th EuroSys Doctoral Workshop (EuroDW'16)

Haibo Chen (Shanghai Jiao Tong University, China), Mema Roussopoulos (University of Athens, Greece)

Room: SALC 5 (Seminar and Learning Centre, Sherfield Building)

9.00-9.10

Welcome

9.10-10.30

Session 1: Security

Towards a Secure Execution Environment for Applications in the IoT. Sven Akkermans (iMinds-Distrinet, KU Leuven)
Nested Kernel: An Operating System Architecture for Intra-Kernel Privilege Separation. Nathan Dautenhahn (University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign)
Secure Key-value Storage using Intel SGX. Robert Krahn (Technische Universität Dresden)
Trustworthy Entangled Storage. Veronica Estrada Galinanes (University of Neuchatel)

10.30-11.00

Coffee Break - Queen's Tower Rooms, Sherfield Building

11.00-12.20

Session 2: Distributed Systems

Replication in Rack-scale Systems. Roni Häcki (System Group, Department of Computer Science, ETH Zürich)
Architectural Support for Bulk Atomic Read Operations in Rack-Scale In-Memory Systems. Dmitrii Ustiugov (EPFL)
Analysis and Optimization Across Interprocess Communication Boundaries. Will Dietz (University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign)
Unleash the Power of Heterogeneity in Distributed Systems. Michael Kaufmann (IBM Research & Institute of Telematics at the Karlsruhe Institute of Technology)
Integrating Strong Consistency across Multiple Stageful Services. João Loff (INESC-ID Lisboa, Instituto Superior Técnico - Universidade de Lisboa, Portugal)

12.20-13.50

Lunch Break - Queen's Tower Rooms, Sherfield Building

13.50-15.10

Session 3: Question & Answer Panel Session: Life Before and After the PhD

Panelists: Haibo Chen (Shanghai Jiao Tong University), Evangelia Kalyvianaki (City University London), Mema Roussopoulos (University of Athens), Hakim Weatherspoon (Cornell University) and John Wilkes (Google)

15.10-15.40

Coffee Break - Queen's Tower Rooms, Sherfield Building

15.40-17.00

Session 4: Cloud and Big Data

Learning Consistency in the Cloud. Michael Schaarschmidt (University of Cambridge)
Automagic Configuration Optimization for Big Data Processing Systems. Muhammad Bilal (Université catholique de Louvain)
Towards a Novel Concept for High Performance Graph Processing. Matthias Hauck (Ruprecht-Karls Universität Heidelberg/SAP SE)
Schedulers for Hybrid Data Center Networks. Neelakandan Manihatty Bojan (Computer Laboratory, University of Cambridge)
Adaptive Distributed Stream Mining. Nasreddine Fergani (Queen Mary University of London)