Samuel Madden, MIT

Understanding Issue Correlations: A Case Study of the Hadoop System

Jian Huang (Georgia Institute of Technology), Xuechen Zhang (University of Oregon), Karsten Schwan (Georgia Institute of Technology)

The Nearest Replica Can Be Farther Than You Think

Kirill Bogdanov (KTH Royal Institute of Technology), Miguel Peón-Quirós (University Complutense of Madrid), Gerald Q. Maguire Jr. (KTH Royal Institute of Technology), Dejan Kostic (KTH Royal Institute of Technology)

POTASSIUM: Penetration Testing as a Service

Richard Li (University of Utah), Dallin Abendroth (University of Utah), Xing Lin (University of Utah), Yuankai Guo (University of Utah), Hyun-wook Baek (University of Utah), Eric Eide (University of Utah), Robert Ricci (University of Utah), Jacobus Van der Merwe (University of Utah)

MemcachedGPU: Scaling-up Scale-out Key-value Stores

Tayler H. Hetherington (The University of British Columbia), Mike O'Connor (NVIDIA / UT-Austin), Tor M. Aamodt (The University of British Columbia)

dJay: Enabling High-density Multi-tenancy for Cloud Gaming Servers with dynamic Cost-Benefit GPU Load Balancing

Sergey Grizan (Special Design and Technological Bureau "Nauka" Krasnoyarsk Scientific Centre of Russian Academy of Sciences), David Chu (Microsoft Research), Alec Wolman (Microsoft Research), Roger Wattenhofer (ETH Zurich)

DSwitch: A Dual Mode Direct and Network Attached Disk

Quanlu Zhang (Peking University), Yafei Dai (Peking University), Lintao Zhang (Microsoft Research Asia)

FastLane: Making Short Flows Shorter with Agile Drop Notification

David Zats (University of California, Berkeley & Google), Anand Padmanabha Iyer (University of California, Berkeley), Ganesh Ananthanarayanan (Microsoft Research), Rachit Agarwal (University of California, Berkeley), Randy Katz (University of California, Berkeley), Ion Stoica (University of California, Berkeley), Amin Vahdat (Google & University of California, San Diego)

Tarcil: Reconciling Scheduling Speed and Quality in Large Shared Clusters

Christina Delimitrou (Stanford University), Daniel Sanchez (MIT), Christos Kozyrakis (Stanford University)

Scheduling Jobs Across Geo-Distributed Datacenters

Chien-Chun Hung (University of Southern California), Leana Golubchik (University of Southern California), Minlan Yu (University of Southern California)

vFair: Latency-Aware Fair Storage Scheduling via Per-IO Cost-Based Differentiation

Hui Lu (Department of Computer Science, Purdue University), Brendan Saltaformaggio (Department of Computer Science, Purdue University), Ramana Kompella (Google Inc. and Purdue University), Dongyan Xu (Department of Computer Science, Purdue University)

On Data Skewness, Stragglers, and MapReduce Progress Indicators

Emilio Coppa (Sapienza University of Rome), Irene Finocchi (Sapienza University of Rome)

Forecasting the Cost of Processing Multi-join Queries via Hashing for Main-memory Databases

Feilong Liu (The Ohio State University), Spyros Blanas (The Ohio State University)

Eric Brewer, Google & University of California, Berkeley

Harnessing Data Loss with Forgetful Data Structures

Azza Abouzied (New York University Abu Dhabi), Jay Chen (New York University Abu Dhabi)

Software-Defined Caching: Managing Caches in Multi-Tenant Data Centers

Ioan Stefanovici (University of Toronto), Eno Thereska (Microsoft Research), Greg O'Shea (Microsoft Research), Bianca Schroeder (University of Toronto), Hitesh Ballani (Microsoft Research), Thomas Karagiannis (Microsoft Research), Antony Rowstron (Microsoft Research), Tom Talpey (Microsoft)

Domino: Understanding Wide-Area, Asynchronous Event Chains in Web Applications

Ding Li (University of Southern California), James Mickens (Harvard University), Suman Nath (Microsoft Research), Lenin Ravindranath (Microsoft Research)

Microsoft Azure SQL Database Telemetry

Willis Lang (Microsoft), Frank Bertsch (University of Wisconsin-Madison), David J. DeWitt (Microsoft), Nigel Ellis (Microsoft)

Zorro: Zero-Cost Reactive Failure Recovery in Distributed Graph Processing

Mayank Pundir (University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign), Luke M. Leslie (University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign), Indranil Gupta (University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign), Roy H. Campbell (University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign)

Database High Availability Using SHADOW Systems

Jaemyung Kim (University of Waterloo), Kenneth Salem (University of Waterloo), Khuzaima Daudjee (University of Waterloo), Ashraf Aboulnaga (Qatar Computing Research Institute), Xin Pan (University of Waterloo)

Reducing Replication Bandwidth for Distributed Document Databases

Lianghong Xu (Carnegie Mellon University), Andrew Pavlo (Carnegie Mellon University), Sudipta Sengupta (Microsoft Research), Jin Li (Microsoft Research), Gregory R. Ganger (Carnegie Mellon University)

ShardFS vs. IndexFS: Replication vs. Caching Strategies for Distributed Metadata Management in Cloud Storage Systems

Lin Xiao (Carnegie Mellon University), Kai Ren (Carnegie Mellon University), Qing Zheng (Carnegie Mellon University), Garth A. Gibson (Carnegie Mellon University)

Student/Senior Researcher Luncheon

Evaluating the Impact of Fine-scale Burstiness on Cloud Elasticity

Sadeka Islam (University of New South Wales), Srikumar Venugopal (IBM Research, Ireland), Anna Liu (National ICT Australia)

Centiman: Elastic, High Performance Optimistic Concurrency Control by Watermarking

Bailu Ding (Cornell University), Lucja Kot (Cornell University), Alan Demers (Cornell University), Johannes Gehrke (Microsoft Corporation, Cornell University)

Online Parameter Optimization for Elastic Data Stream Processing

Thomas Heinze (SAP SE), Lars Roediger (SAP SE), Andreas Meister (University of Magdeburg), Yuanzhen Ji (SAP SE), Zbigniew Jerzak (SAP SE), Christof Fetzer (TU Dresden)

Towards a Comprehensive Performance Model of Virtual Machine Live Migration

Senthil Nathan (IIT Bombay), Umesh Bellur (IIT Bombay), Purushottam Kulkarni (IIT Bombay)

Achieving Cost-efficient, Data-intensive Computing in the Cloud

Michael Conley (University of California, San Diego), Amin Vahdat (Google & University of California, San Diego), George Porter (University of California, San Diego)

Response Time Service Level Agreements for Cloud-hosted Web Applications

Hiranya Jayathilaka (University of California, Santa Barbara), Chandra Krintz (University of California, Santa Barbara), Rich Wolski (University of California, Santa Barbara)

SpotOn: A Batch Computing Service for the Spot Market

Supreeth Subramanya (University of Massachusetts Amherst), Tian Guo (University of Massachusetts Amherst), Prateek Sharma (University of Massachusetts Amherst), David Irwin (University of Massachusetts Amherst), Prashant Shenoy (University of Massachusetts Amherst)

Energy Proportionality and Workload Consolidation for Latency-critical Applications

George Prekas (EPFL), Mia Primorac (EPFL), Adam Belay (Stanford), Christos Kozyrakis (Stanford), Edouard Bugnion (EPFL)

CoolProvision: Underprovisioning Datacenter Cooling

Ioannis Manousakis (Rutgers University), Inigo Goiri (Microsoft Research), Sriram Sankar (GoDaddy), Thu D. Nguyen (Rutgers University), Ricardo Bianchini (Rutgers University and Microsoft Research)

Automating Model Search for Large Scale Machine Learning

Evan R. Sparks (University of California, Berkeley), Ameet Talwalkar (UCLA), Daniel Haas (University of California, Berkeley), Michael J. Franklin (University of California, Berkeley), Michael I. Jordan (University of California, Berkeley), Tim Kraska (Brown University)

Managed Communication and Consistency for Fast Data-Parallel Iterative Analytics

Jinliang Wei (Carnegie Mellon University), Wei Dai (Carnegie Mellon University), Aurick Qiao (Carnegie Mellon University), Qirong Ho (Institute for Infocomm Research, A*STAR), Henggang Cui (Carnegie Mellon University), Gregory R. Ganger (Carnegie Mellon University), Phillip B. Gibbons (Intel Labs), Garth A. Gibson (Carnegie Mellon University), Eric P. Xing (Carnegie Mellon University)

Using Data Transformations for Low-latency Time Series Analysis

Henggang Cui (Carnegie Mellon University), Kimberly Keeton (Hewlett-Packard Laboratories), Indrajit Roy (Hewlett-Packard Laboratories), Krishnamurthy Viswanathan (Hewlett-Packard Laboratories), Gregory R. Ganger (Carnegie Mellon University)

GraM: Scaling Graph Computation to the Trillions

Ming Wu (Microsoft Research), Fan Yang (Microsoft Research), Jilong Xue (Microsoft Research & Peking University), Wencong Xiao (Microsoft Research & Beihang University), Youshan Miao (Microsoft Research & University of Science and Technology of China), Lan Wei (Microsoft Research & Institute of Software, Chinese Academy of Sciences), Haoxiang Lin (Microsoft Research), Yafei Dai (Peking University), Lidong Zhou (Microsoft Research)

Algebricks: A Data Model-Agnostic Compiler Backend for Big Data Languages

Vinayak Borkar (X15 Software), Yingyi Bu (University of California, Irvine), E. Preston Carman, Jr. (University of California, Riverside), Nicola Onose (X15 Software), Till Westmann (Oracle Labs), Pouria Pirzadeh (University of California, Irvine), Michael J. Carey (University of California, Irvine), Vassilis J. Tsotras (University of California, Riverside)