Poster session I (Monday, September 25th)
Location: Seattle/Portland/Santa Barbara room (Poster layout)

(1) An Implementation of Fast memset() Using Hardware Accelerators

Kishore Pusukuri; Rob Gardner; Jared Smolens (Oracle Inc)

(2) Bridging the Architectural Gap between NOS Design Principles in Software-Defined Networks

Jaehyun Nam; Hyeonseong Jo; Yeonkeun Kim (KAIST); Phillip Porras; Vinod Yegneswaran (SRI International); Seungwon Shin (KAIST)

(3) Mitigating Traffic-based Side Channel Attacks in Bandwidth-efficient Cloud Storage

Pengfei Zuo; Yu Hua Huazhong University of Science and Technology); Cong Wang (City University of Hong Kong); Wen Xia; Shunde Cao; Yukun Zhou; Yuanyuan Sun (Huazhong University of Science and Technology)

(4) Revisiting Performance in Big Data Systems: An Resource Decoupling Approach

Chen Yang (Renmin University)

(5) Exploiting Speculation in Partially Replicated Transactional Data Stores

Zhongmiao Li (Université catholique de Louvain and Instituto Superior Tecnico); Peter Van Roy (Université catholique de Louvain); Paolo Romano (INESC-ID, Instituto Superior Tecnico, Universidade de Lisboa)

(6) Hytrace: A Hybrid Approach to Performance Bug Diagnosis in Production Cloud Infrastructures

Ting Dai (North Carolina State University); Daniel Dean (InsightFinder Inc.); Peipei Wang; Xiaohui Gu (North Carolina State University); Shan Lu (University of Chicago)

(7) Fragola: Low-Latency Transactions in Distributed Data Stores

Yonatan Gottesman (Yahoo Research); Aran Bergman (Technion); Edward Bortnikov; Eshcar Hillel (Yahoo Research);Idit Keidar (Yahoo Research, Technion); Ohad Shacham (Yahoo Research)

(8) Lever: Towards Low-Latency Batched Stream Processing by Pre-Scheduling

Fei Chen; Song Wu; Hai Jin; Yin Yao; Zhiyi Liu; Lin Gu (Huazhong University of Science and Technology);Yongluan Zhou (University of Copenhagen)

(9) Mitigating Multi-Tenant Interference on Mobile Offloading Servers

Zhou Fang; Mulong Luo (University of California, San Diego); Tong Yu; Ole J. Mengshoel (Carnegie Mellon University); Mani B. Srivastava (University of California, Los Angeles); Rajesh K. Gupta (University of California, San Diego)

(10) SEaMLESS: a SErvice Migration cLoud architecture for Energy Saving and memory releaSing capabilities

Dino Lopez Pacheco; Quentin Jacquemart (Université Côte d’Azur, CNRS, I3S, France); Andrea Segalini (Università di Bologna, Italy + Université Côte d’Azur, CNRS, I3S, France); Myriana Rifai ((Université Côte d’Azur, CNRS, I3S, France); Marcos Dione (Unaffiliated); Guillaume Urvoy-Keller (Université Côte d’Azur, CNRS, I3S, France)

(11) Siphon: A High-Performance Substrate for Inter-Datacenter Transfers in Wide-Area Data Analytics

Shuhao Liu; Li Chen; Baochun Li (University of Toronto)

(12) Efficient and Consistent Replication for Distributed Logs

Hua Fan (University of Waterloo); Jeffrey Pound; Peter Bumbulis; Nathan Auch; Scott MacLean; Eric Garber; Anil K Goel (SAP Labs)

(13) Rethinking Reinforcement Learning for Cloud Elasticity

Konstantinos Lolos; Ioannis Konstantinou; Verena Kantere; Nectarios Koziris (School of Electrical and Computer Engineering, National Technical University of Athens)

(14) How Good Are Machine Learning Clouds for Binary Classification with Good Features?

Hantian Zhang; Luyuan Zeng (ETH Zurich); Wentao Wu (Microsoft Research, Redmond); Ce Zhang (ETH Zurich)

(15) Indy: A Software System for the Dense Cloud

Chenggang Wu (UC Berkeley); Jose M. Faleiro (Yale University); Yihan Lin; Joseph M. Hellerstein (UC Berkeley)

(16) Towards Verifiable Metering for Database as a Service Providers

Min Du (University of Utah); Ravi Ramamurthy (Microsoft Research)

(17) Janus: Supporting Heterogeneous Power Management in Virtualized Environments

Daehoon Kim (DGIST); Mohammad Alian (UIUC); Jaehyuk Huh (KAIST); Nam Sung Kim (UIUC)

(18) Stocator: An Object Store Aware Connector for Spark

Gil Vernik; Michael Factor; Elliot Kolodner (IBM Research); Pietro Michiardi (Eurecom); Effi Ofer (IBM Research); Francesco Pace (Eurecom)

(19) mBalloon: Enabling Elastic Memory Management for Big Data Processing

Wei Chen; Aidi Pi (University of Colorado at Colorado Springs); Jia Rao (University of Texas Arlington); Xiaobo Zhou (University of Colorado at Colorado Springs)

(20) Sparkle: Optimizing Spark for Large Memory Machines and Analytics

Mijung Kim (Hewlett Packard Labs); Jun Li (Ebay); Haris Volos; Manish Marwah (Hewlett Packard Labs); Alexander Ulanov (Facebook); Kimberly Keeton (Hewlett Packard Labs); Lucy Cherkasova (HyTrust); Le Xu (University of Illinois); Pradeep Fernando (Georgia Institute of Technology)

(21) Exploring Memory Locality for Big Data Analytics in Virtualized Clusters

Eunji Hwang; Hyungoo Kim; Beomseok Nam; Young-ri Choi (Ulsan National Institute of Science and Technology)

(22) RStore: Efficient Multiversion Document Management in the Cloud

Souvik Bhattacherjee; Amol Deshpande (University of Maryland, College Park)

(23) SQML: Large-scale in-database machine learning with pure SQL

Umar Syed; Sergei Vassilvitskii (Google)

(24) DFS-Container: Achieving Containerized Block I/O for Distributed File Systems

Dan Huang; Jun Wang (University of Central Florida); Qing Liu (New Jersey Institute of Technology); Xuhong Zhang; Xunchao Chen; Jian Zhou (University of Central Florida)

(25) Early Work on Modeling Computational Sprinting

Nathaniel Morris; Christopher Stewart (The Ohio State University); Robert Birke; Lydia Chen (IBM Research Zurich); Jaimie Kelley (Denison University)

(26) Job Scheduling for Data-Parallel Frameworks with Hybrid Electrical/Optical Datacenter Networks

Zhuozhao Li; Haiying Shen (University of Virginia)

(27) Prometheus: Online Estimation of Optimal Memory Demands for Workers in In-memory Distributed Computation

Guoyao Xu (Wayne State University); Cheng-Zhong Xu (Shenzhen Institutes of Advanced Technology)

(28) CapNet: Security and Least Authority in a Capability-Enabled Cloud

Anton Burtsev (University of California, Irvine); David Johnson, Josh Kunz, Eric Eide, Jacobus Van der Merwe (University of Utah)

(29) Secure Data Types: A Simple Abstraction for Confidentiality-Preserving Data Analytics

Savvas Savvides (Purdue University); Julian Stephen (IBM Research); Masoud Saieda Ardekani (Purdue University); Vinaitheerthan Sundaram (SensorHound, Inc); Patrick Eugster (TU Darmstadt)

(30) Practical Whole-System Provenance Capture

Thomas Pasquier, Xueyuan Han, Mark Goldstein, Margo Seltzer (Harvard University); Thomas Moyer (MIT Lincoln Laboratory); David Eyers (University of Otago); Jean Bacon (University of Cambridge)

(31) STYX: A Trusted and Accelerated Hierarchical SSL Key Management and Distribution System for Cloud Based CDN Application

Changzhen Wei (Intel Asia-Pacific Research & Development Ltd.); Jian Li (Shanghai Jiao Tong University); Weigang Li, Ping Yu (Intel Asia-Pacific Research & Development Ltd.); Haibing Guan (Shanghai Jiao Tong University)

(32) APUS: Fast and Scalable PAXOS on RDMA

Cheng Wang, Xusheng Chen, Jianyu Jiang, Ning Yi, Heming Cui (The University of Hong Kong)

(33) ALOHA-KV: High Performance Read-only and Write-only Distributed Transactions

Hua Fan, Wojciech Golab (University of Waterloo); Charles B. Morrey III (unaffiliated)

(34) Sketches of Space: Ownership Accounting for Shared Storage

Jake Wires, Pradeep Ganesan, Andrew Warfield (Coho Data)

(35) Latency Reduction and Load Balancing in Coded Storage Systems

Yaochen Hu, Yushi Wang, Bang Liu, Di Niu (University of Alberta); Cheng Huang (Microsoft Research Redmond)

(36) WorkloadCompactor: Reducing datacenter cost while providing tail latency SLO guarantees

Timothy Zhu (Carnegie Mellon University); Michael A. Kozuch (Intel Labs); Mor Harchol-Balter (Carnegie Mellon University)

(37) BestConfig: Tapping the Performance Potential of Systems via Automatic Configuration Tuning

Yuqing Zhu, Jianxun Liu, Mengying Guo, Yungang Bao (Institute of Computing Technology, Chinese Academy of Sciences); Kunpeng Song, Zhuoyue Liu (Huawei)

(38) SLO-aware Colocation of Data Center Tasks Based on Instantaneous Resource Requirements

Pawel Janus, Krzysztof Rzadca (University of Warsaw, Poland)

(39) Incentivizing Self-Capping to Increase Cloud Utilization

Mohammad Shahrad (Princeton University); Cristian Klein (Umeå University); Liang Zheng, Mung Chiang (Princeton University); Erik Elmroth (Umeå University); David Wentzlaff (Princeton University)

(40) HotSpot: Automated Server Hopping in Cloud Spot Markets

Supreeth Shastri, David Irwin (University of Massachusetts Amherst)

(41) A Policy-Based System for Dynamic Scaling of Virtual Machine Memory Reservations

Rebecca Smith, Scott Rixner (Rice University)

(42) Trustable Virtual Machine Scheduling in a Cloud

Fabien Hermenier (Nutanix inc.); Ludovic Henrio (Université Côte d’Azur, CNRS, I3S)

(43) Distributed Resource Management across Process Boundaries

Lalith Suresh (VMWare Research); Peter Bodik, Ishai Menache (Microsoft Research); Marco Canini (KAUST); Florin Ciucu (University of Warwick)

Poster session II (Tuesday, September 26th)
Location: Seattle/Portland/Santa Barbara room (Poster layout)

(1) Reducing Tail Latencies in Streaming Workloads

Faria Kalim (University of Illinois, at Urbana Champaign); Asser Tantawi; Stefania Costache (IBM Research)

(2) Daiet: A System for Data Aggregation Inside the Network

Amedeo Sapio; Ibrahim Abdelaziz; Marco Canini; Panos Kalnis (KAUST)

(3) Resilient Cloud in Dynamic Resource Environments

Fan Yang; Andrew A. Chien; Haryadi S. Gunawi (University of Chicago)

(4) Disaggregated Operating System

Yizhou Shan; Sumukh Hallymysore; Yutong Huang; Yilun Chen; Yiying Zhang (Purdue University)

(5) To Edge or Not to Edge?

Faria Kalim; Shadi A. Noghabi; Shiv Verma (University of Illinois, at Urbana Champaign)

(6) Cache Management and Load Balancing for 5G Cloud Radio Access Networks

Chin Tsai; Melody Moh (San Jose State University)

(7) Batch Spot Market for Data Analytics Cloud Providers

Stefania Costache (IBM Research); Tommaso Madonia (University of Bologna); Asser Tantawi; Malgorzata Steinder (IBM Research)

(8) Building Smart Memories and High-Speed Cloud Services for the Internet of Things with Derecho

Sagar Jha; Ken Birman (Cornell University)

(9) Toward an Emergency Edge Supercloud

Kolbeinn Karlsson; Zhiming Shen; Weijia Song; Hakim Weatherspoon; Robbert van Renesse; Stephen Wicker (Cornell University)

(10) AKC : Advanced KSM for Cloud Computing

Sioh Lee (Korea University); Bongkyu Kim (LG Electronics); Youngpil Kim; Chuck Yoo (Korea University)

(11) KVS: High-Efficiency Kernel-level Virtual Switch

Heungsik Choi; Gyeongsik Yang; Kyungwoon Lee; Chuck Yoo (Korea University)

(12) Search Lookaside Buffer: Efficient Caching for Index Data Structures

Xingbo Wu, Fan Ni, Song Jiang (University of Texas, Arlington)

(13) LSM-tree Managed Storage for Large-scale Key-value Store

Fei Mei, Qiang Cao (Huazhong University of Science and Technology), Hong Jiang (University of Texas at Arlington), Lei Tian (Tintri, Inc.)

(14) A Scalable Distributed Spatial Index for the Internet-of-Things

Anand Padmanabha Iyer, Ion Stoica (UC Berkeley)

(15) Mithril: mining sporadic associations for cache prefetching

Juncheng Yang, Reza Karimi (Emory University); Trausti Sæmundsson (CachePhysics); Avani Wildani, Ymir Vigfusson (Emory University)

(16) Workload Analysis and Caching Strategies for Search Advertising Systems

Conglong Li, David G. Andersen (Carnegie Mellon University); Qiang Fu (Microsoft); Sameh Elnikety, Yuxiong He (Microsoft Research)

(17) UNO: Unifying Host and Smart NIC Offload for Flexible Packet Processing

Yanfang Le (University of Wisconsin-Madison); Hyunseok Chang, Sarit Mukherjee, Limin Wang (Nokia Bell Labs); Aditya Akella, Michael Swift (University of Wisconsin-Madison); T.V. Lakshman (Nokia Bell Labs)

(18) AidOps: A Data-Driven Provisioning of Virtual Network Functions

Diego Lugones, Jordi Arjona Aroca, Yue Jin, Alessandra Sala, Volker Hilt (Nokia Bell Labs)

(19) HyperNF: Building a High Performance, High Utilization and Fair NFV Platform

Kenichi Yasukata, Felipe Huici (NEC Laboratories Europe); Vincenzo Maffione, Giuseppe Lettieri (University of Pisa); Michio Honda (NEC Laboratories Europe)

(20) Prism: A Proxy Architecture for Datacenter Networks [VISION]

Yutaro Hayakawa (Keio University); Lars Eggert (NetApp); Michio Honda (NEC Laboratories Europe); Douglas Santry (NetApp)

(21) Architectural Implications on the Performance and Cost of Graph Analytics Systems

Qizhen Zhang (University of Pennsylvania); Hongzhi Chen (Chinese University of Hong Kong); Da Yan (University of Alabama at Birmingham); James Cheng (Chinese University of Hong Kong); Boon Thau Loo (University of Pennsylvania); Purushotham Bangalore (University of Alabama at Birmingham)

(22) QFrag: Distributed Graph Search via Subgraph Isomorphism

Marco Serafini, Gianmarco De Francisci Morales, Georgos Siganos (Qatar Computing Research Institute)

(23) DLSH: A Distribution-aware LSH Scheme for Approximate Nearest Neighbor Query in Cloud Computing

Yuanyuan Sun, Yu Hua (Huazhong University of Science and Technology); Xue Liu (McGill University); Shunde Cao, Pengfei Zuo (Huazhong University of Science and Technology)

(24) PBSE: A Robust Path-Based Speculative Execution for Degraded-Network Tail Tolerance in Data-Parallel Frameworks

Riza O. Suminto, Cesar A. Stuardo, Alexandra Clark, Huan Ke, Tanakorn Leesatapornwongsa, Bo Fu (University of Chicago); Daniar H. Kurniawan (Bandung Institute of Technology); Vincentius Martin (Surya University); Uma Maheswara Rao G. (Intel Corporation); Haryadi S. Gunawi (University of Chicago)

(25) A Robust Partitioning Scheme for Ad-Hoc Query Workloads

Anil Shanbhag (MIT); Alekh Jindal (Microsoft); Sam Madden (MIT); Jorge Quiane (QCRI); Aaron Elmore (University of Chicago)

(26) Automated Debugging in Data-Intensive Scalable Computing

Muhammad Ali Gulzar, Matteo Interlandi (UCLA); Xueyuan Han (Harvard University); Mingda Li, Tyson Condie, Miryung Kim (UCLA)

(27) Occupy the Cloud: Distributed Computing for the 99% [VISION]

Eric Jonas, Qifan Pu, Shivaram Venkataraman, Ion Stoica, Benjamin Recht (UC Berkeley)

(28) Distributed Shared Persistent Memory

Yizhou Shan, Shin-Yeh Tsai, Yiying Zhang (Purdue University)

(29) GLoop: An Event-driven Runtime for Consolidating GPGPU Applications

Yusuke Suzuki (Keio University); Hiroshi Yamada (TUAT); Shinpei Kato (University of Tokyo); Kenji Kono (Keio University)

(30) Remote memory in the age of fast networks [VISION]

Marcos K. Aguilera, Nadav Amit, Irina Calciu, Xavier Deguillard, Jayneel Gandhi, Pratap Subrahmanyam, Lalith Suresh, Kiran Tati, Rajesh Venkatasubramanian, Michael Wei (VMware)

(31) Preserving I/O Prioritization in Virtualized OSes

Kun Suo, Yong Zhao, Jia Rao (The University of Texas at Arlington); Luwei Cheng (Facebook); Xiaobo Zhou (The University of Colorado, Colorado Springs); Francis C. M. Lau (The University of Hong Kong)

(32) Processing Java UDFs in a C++ environment

Viktor Rosenfeld (TU Berlin); Rene Mueller, Pinar Tozun, Fatma Ozcan (IBM Research Almaden)

(33) An Experimental Comparison of Complex Object Implementations for Big Data Systems

Sourav Sikdar, Kia Teymourian, Christopher Jermaine (Rice University)

(34) Analysis of TPC-DS: the First Standard Benchmark for SQL-Based Big Data Systems

Meikel Poess (Oracle); Tilmann Rabl (TU Berlin); Hans-Arno Jacobsen (TU Munich)

(35) Selecting the Best VM across Multiple Public Clouds: A Data-Driven Performance Modeling Approach

Neeraja J. Yadwadkar (University of California, Berkeley); Bharath Hariharan (Facebook AI Research); Joseph E. Gonzalez (University of California, Berkeley); Burton Smith (Microsoft Research); Randy Katz (University of California, Berkeley)

(36) Polygravity: Traffic Usage Accountability via Coarse-grained Measurements in Multi-tenant Data Centers

Hyunwook Baek (University of Utah); Cheng Jin (University of Minnesota); Guofei Jiang, Cristian Lumezanu (NEC Labs America); Jacobus Van der Merwe (University of Utah); Ning Xia, Qiang Xu (NEC Labs America)

(37) Optimized On-Demand Data Streaming from Sensor Nodes

Jonas Traub (Technische Universität Berlin); Sebastian Breß (DFKI); Tilmann Rabl (Technische Universität Berlin); Asterios Katsifodimos (SAP Germany); Volker Markl (Technische Universität Berlin)

(38) No Data Left Behind: Real-Time Insights from a Complex Data Ecosystem

Manos Karpathiotakis (EPFL); Avrilia Floratou (Microsoft); Fatma Ozcan (IBM Research); Anastasia Ailamaki (EPFL)

(39) Towards Automatic Parameter Tuning of Stream Processing Systems

Muhammad Bilal (Universite catholiqué de Louvain and KAUST); Marco Canini (KAUST)

(40) FSP: Towards Flexible Synchronous Parallel Framework for Expectation-Maximization based Algorithms on Cloud

Zhigang Wang (Northeastern University); Lixin Gao (University of Massachusetts Amherst); Yu Gu, Yubin Bao, Ge Yu (Northeastern University)

(41) SLAQ: Quality-Driven Scheduling for Distributed Machine Learning

Haoyu Zhang, Logan Stafman, Andrew Or, Michael J. Freedman (Princeton University)

(42) A Machine Learning Approach to Live Migration Modeling

Changyeon Jo, Youngsu Cho, Bernhard Egger (Seoul National University)

(43) On-demand Virtualization for Live Migration in Bare Metal Cloud

Jaeseong Im, Jongyul Kim, Jonguk Kim (School of Computing, KAIST); Seongwook Jin (KIWIPLUS); Seungryoul Maeng (School of Computing, KAIST)