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Last updated: August 8, 2012

Time Atrium East Falls Church West Falls Church Westin 2nd Floor

Tuesday, August 7
08:45 AM OR: Opening Remarks
09:00 AM K-A: Keynote I
10:00 AM Coffee Break
10:30 AM I-A: Cloud and Cluster Operations I I-B: Wireless Networks I
12:00 PM Lunch
01:30 PM II-A: Network Simulations II-B: Network Performance
03:00 PM Coffee Break
03:30 PM III-A: Simulation Techniques III-B: Sensor Network Systems
06:00 PM Reception

Wednesday, August 8
09:00 AM K-B: Keynote II
10:00 AM Coffee Break
10:30 AM IV-A: Data and I/O Systems IV-B: File Storage Systems
12:00 PM Lunch
01:30 PM V-A: Execution Tools V-B: Memory System Design
03:00 PM PS: Poster Session
04:00 PM VI-A: Cloud and Cluster Operations II VI-B: Disk Storage Systems I
06:30 PM Banquet

Thursday, August 9
09:00 AM VII-A: Wireless Networks II VII-B: Processor Caches
10:00 AM Coffee Break
10:30 AM VIII: Best Papers
12:00 PM Lunch
01:00 PM IX-A: Applications and Infrastructure IX-B: Disk Storage Systems II
02:30 PM CR: Closing Remarks

Detailed Program

Tuesday, August 7

8:45 AM – 9:00 AM

OR: Opening Remarks

Program Chairs and General Chair

Rooms: East Falls Church, West Falls Church

Chairs: Kalyan S. Perumalla (Oak Ridge National Laboratory, USA), Srinidhi Varadarajan (Virginia Tech, USA)

9:00 AM – 10:00 AM

K-A: Keynote I

Dr. Raju Namburu, “Tactical Cloudlets”

Rooms: East Falls Church, West Falls Church

Chair: Kalyan S. Perumalla (Oak Ridge National Laboratory, USA)

10:00 AM – 10:30 AM

Coffee Break

10:30 AM – 12:00 PM

I-A: Cloud and Cluster Operations I

Room: East Falls Church

Chair: Srinidhi Varadarajan (Virginia Tech, USA)
10:30 A Scalable Algorithm for Placement of Virtual Clusters in Large Data Centers
Asser Tantawi (IBM T.J. Watson Research Center, USA)
11:00 Two Sides of a Coin: Optimizing the Schedule of MapReduce Jobs to Minimize Their Makespan and Improve Cluster Performance
Abhishek Verma (Department of Computer Science & University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, USA); Lucy Cherkasova (HP Labs, USA); Roy Campbell (University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, USA)
11:30 Squeezing out the Cloud via Profit-Maximizing Resource Allocation Policies
Michele Mazzucco (University of Tartu, Estonia); Martti Vasar (University of Tartu, Estonia); Marlon Dumas (University of Tartu, Estonia)

I-B: Wireless Networks I

Room: West Falls Church

Chair: Yun Wang (Bradley University, USA)
10:30 Multi-Armed Bandit Congestion Control in Multi-Hop Infrastructure Wireless Mesh Networks
A. B. M. Alim Al Islam (Purdue University & BUET, USA); S. M. Iftekharul Alam (Purdue University, USA); Vijay Raghunathan (Purdue University, USA); Saurabh Bagchi (Purdue University, USA)
11:00 A Cross-Layer Analytical Model to Estimate the Capacity of a WiMAX Network
A. B. M. Alim Al Islam (Purdue University & BUET, USA); Vijay Raghunathan (Purdue University, USA)
11:30 Wireless Spectrum Occupancy Prediction with Partial Periodic Pattern Mining
Pei Huang (Michigan State University, USA); Chin-Jung Liu (Michigan State University, USA); Li Xiao (Michigan State University, USA); Jin Chen (Michigan State University, USA)

12:00 PM – 1:30 PM

Lunch

1:30 PM – 3:00 PM

II-A: Network Simulations

Room: East Falls Church

Chair: Srinidhi Varadarajan (Virginia Tech, USA)
1:30 Comparing the ns-3 Propagation Models
Mirko Stoffers (Georgia Institute of Technology, USA); George Riley (Georgia Institute of Technology, USA)
2:00 Taming Wild Horses: The Need for Virtual Time-based Scheduling of VMs in Network Simulations
Srikanth B. Yoginath (Oak Ridge National Laboratory, USA); Kalyan S. Perumalla (Oak Ridge National Laboratory, USA); Brian Henz (US Army Research Laboratory, USA)
2:30 Towards Traffic Benchmarks for Empirical Networking Research: The Role of Connection Structure in Traffic Workload Modeling
Jay Aikat (University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, USA); Shaddi Hasan (University of California, Berkeley, USA); Kevin Jeffay (University of North Carolina, USA); F. Donelson Smith (University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, USA)

II-B: Network Performance

Room: West Falls Church

Chair: Asser Tantawi (IBM T.J. Watson Research Center, USA)
1:30 Fair Scheduling on Parallel Bonded Channels with Intersecting Bonding Groups
Gongbing Hong (Clemson University, USA); Jim Martin (Clemson, USA); Scott Moser (Clemson University, USA); James Westall (Clemson University, USA)
2:00 Solving the TCP-incast Problem with Application-Level Scheduling
Maxim Podlesny (University of Waterloo, Canada); Carey Williamson (University of Calgary, Canada)
2:30 MMPP Characterization of Web Application Traffic
Ali Rajabi (University of Waterloo, Canada); Johnny W Wong (University of Waterloo, Canada)

3:00 PM – 3:30 PM

Coffee Break

3:30 PM – 5:00 PM

III-A: Simulation Techniques

Room: East Falls Church

Chair: George Riley (Georgia Institute of Technology, USA)
3:30 Accelerating Multi-threaded Application Simulation Through Barrier-Interval Time-Parallelism
Paul Bryan (Georgia Institute of Technology, USA); Jason Poovey (Georgia Institute of Technology, USA); Jesse Beu (Georgia Institute of Technology, USA); Thomas Conte (Georgia Institute of Technology, USA)
4:00 Modeling Large Scale Circuits Using Massively Parallel Discrete-Event Simulation
Elsa Gonsiorowski (Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, USA); Christopher Carothers (RPI, USA); Carl Tropper (McGill University, Canada)
4:30 Transparent and Efficient Shared-State Management for Optimistic Simulations on Multi-core Machines
Alessandro Pellegrini (Sapienza Università di Roma, Italy); Roberto Vitali (Sapienza Università di Roma, Italy); Sebastiano Peluso (Sapienza, Università di Roma, Italy); Francesco Quaglia (University of Rome “La Sapienza”, Italy)

III-B: Sensor Network Systems

Room: West Falls Church

Chair: Carey Williamson (University of Calgary, Canada)
3:30 Connectivity in Wireless Sensor Networks in the SINR Model
Min Kyung An (University of Texas at Dallas, USA); Nhat X Lam (University of Texas at Dallas, USA); Dung Huynh (University of Texas at Dallas, USA); Trac Ngoc Nguyen (Raytheon Systems, USA)
4:00 A Practical Approach for Target Tracking in Sparsely Deployed Binary Sensor Network
Deepak Jeswani (IBM Research Lab & Tata Research Development and Design Center, India); Ankit Kesharwani (Indian Institute of Technology Kanpur, India); Sneha S Chaudhari (IBM Research Lab, India); Vaishali P Sadaphal (Tata Research, India); Ratan K. Ghosh (Indian Institute of Technology, Kanpur, India)
4:30 Hop Distance Analysis in Partially Connected Wireless Sensor Networks
Yun Wang (Bradley University, USA); Brendan M Kelly (Bradley University, USA); Aimin Zhou (East China Normal University, P.R. China)

6:00 PM – 8:00 PM

Reception

Room: Westin 2nd Floor

Chair: Srinidhi Varadarajan (Virginia Tech, USA)

Wednesday, August 8

9:00 AM – 10:00 AM

K-B: Keynote II

Prof. K. Mani Chandy, “Modeling Complex Socio-Technical Systems on Massively Parallel Computers”

Rooms: East Falls Church, West Falls Church

Chair: Kalyan S. Perumalla (Oak Ridge National Laboratory, USA)

10:00 AM – 10:30 AM

Coffee Break

10:30 AM – 12:00 PM

IV-A: Data and I/O Systems

Room: East Falls Church

Chair: Xubin He (Virginia Commonwealth University, USA)
10:30 Understanding scalability and performance requirements of I/O intensive applications on future multicore servers
Shoaib Akram (FORTH-ICS, Greece); Manolis Marazakis (Foundation for Research and Technology – Hellas, Greece); Angelos Bilas (FORTH & University of Crete, Greece)
11:00 SMART-IO: SysteM-AwaRe Two-Level Data Organization for Efficient Scientific Analytics
Yuan Tian (Auburn University, USA); Scott Klasky (Oak Ridge National Laboratory, USA); Weikuan Yu (Auburn University, USA); Hasan Abbasi (Oak Ridge National Laboratory, USA); Bin Wang (Auburn University, USA); Norbert Podhorszki (Oak Ridge National Laboratory, USA); Ray Grout (National Renewable Energy Laboratory, USA); Matthew Wolf (Georgia Institute of Technology, USA)
11:30 Reliability of Data Storage Systems under Network Rebuild Bandwidth Constraints
Vinodh Venkatesan (EPFL, Switzerland); Ilias Iliadis (IBM Zurich Research Laboratory, Switzerland); Robert Haas (IBM, Switzerland)

IV-B: File Storage Systems

Room: West Falls Church

Chair: Srinidhi Varadarajan (Virginia Tech, USA)
10:30 Assuring Demanded Read Performance of Data Deduplication Storage with Backup Datasets
Young Jin Nam (Daegu University, Korea); Dongchul Park (University of Minnesota, USA); David Du (University of Minnesota, USA)
11:00 Cooperative Storage-Level De-Duplication for I/O Reduction in Virtualized Data Centers
Min Li (Virginia Tech, USA); Shravan Gaonkar (Atlantis Computing, USA); Ali R Butt (Virginia Tech., USA); Deepak Kenchammana (NetApp, USA); Kaladhar Voruganti (Netapp, USA)
11:30 Content Sharing Dynamics in the Global File Hosting Landscape
Aniket Mahanti (University of Auckland, New Zealand); Niklas Carlsson (Linköping University, Sweden); Carey Williamson (University of Calgary, Canada)

12:00 PM – 1:30 PM

Lunch

1:30 PM – 3:00 PM

V-A: Execution Tools

Room: East Falls Church

Chair: Hitoshi Oi (The University of Aizu, Japan)
1:30 Energy-aware Execution of Fork-Join-based Task Parallelism
Thomas Rauber (University Bayreuth, Germany); Gudula Rünger (Chemnitz University of Technology, Germany)
2:00 Power-Sleuth: A Tool for Investigating your Program’s Power Behavior
Vasileios Spiliopoulos (Uppsala University, Sweden); Andreas Sembrant (Uppsala University, Sweden); Stefanos Kaxiras (Uppsala University, Sweden)
2:30 Performance Modeling of Design Patterns for Distributed Computation
Ronald Strebelow (Fraunhofer ESK, Germany); Mirco Tribastone (LMU Munich, Germany); Christian Prehofer (Fraunhofer ESK, Germany)

V-B: Memory System Design

Room: West Falls Church

Chair: Lucy Cherkasova (HP Labs, USA)
1:30 Extrapolation Pitfalls When Evaluating Limited Endurance Memory
Rishiraj Bheda (Georgia Institute of Technology, USA); Jesse Beu (Georgia Institute of Technology, USA); Brian Railing (Georgia Institute of Technology, USA); Thomas Conte (Georgia Institute of Technology, USA)
2:00 Making Write Less Blocking for Read Accesses in Phase Change Memory
Jianhui Yue (University of Maine, USA); Yifeng Zhu (University of Maine, USA)
2:30 Machine Learning-based Self-adjusting Concurrency in Software Transactional Memory Systems
Diego Rughetti (Sapienza Università di Roma, Italy); Pierangelo Di Sanzo (Sapienza Università di Roma, Italy); Bruno Ciciani (University of Rome, Italy); Francesco Quaglia (University of Rome “La Sapienza”, Italy)

3:00 PM – 4:00 PM

PS: Poster Session

Room: Atrium

Chair: Kalyan S. Perumalla (Oak Ridge National Laboratory, USA)
Hybrot: Towards Improved Performance in Hybrid SLC-MLC Devices
Muthukumar Murugan (University of Minnesota, USA); David Du (University of Minnesota, USA)
Split Phase Multi-Channel MAC Approach — Formal Modelling and Analysis
Abdelaziz El Fatni (University of Toulouse, France); Guy Juanole (LAAS CNRS, France)
Energy-efficient Resource Management for QoS-guaranteed Computing Clusters
Kaiqi Xiong (Rochester Institute of Technology, USA)
Analyzing Parallelization and Program Performance in Heterogeneous MPSoCs
Chao Wang (University of Science and Technology of China & Suzhou Institute for Advanced Study，USTC, P.R. China); Xi Li (University of Science and Technology of China, P.R. China); Junneng Zhang (University of Science and Technology of China, P.R. China); Peng Chen (University of Science and Technology of China, P.R. China); Xuehai Zhou (University of Science and Technology of China, P.R. China)
OpenAirInterface Traffic Generator (OTG): A Realistic Traffic Generation Tool for Emerging Application Scenarios
Navid Nikaein (Eurecom, France); Aymen Hafsaoui (Eurecom, France); Lusheng Wang (EURECOM, France)
Frequency Affinity: Analyzing and Maximizing Power Efficiency in Multi-core Systems
Gangyong Jia (USTC, P.R. China); Xi Li (School of Software Engineering University of Science and Technology of China, P.R. China); Chao Wang (University of Science and Technology of China & Suzhou Institute for Advanced Study，USTC, P.R. China); Xuehai Zhou (University of Science and Technology of China, P.R. China)
NetSim-Steer: A Runtime Steering Framework for Network Simulators
Selim Ciraci (PNNL, USA); Bora Akyol (Pacific Northwest Labs, USA)
Energy-Efficient Cached DIMM Architecture
Mu-Tien Chang (University of Maryland, USA); Joe Gross (University of Maryland, USA); Bruce Jacob (University of Maryland, USA)
Energy-Aware Replica Selection for Data-Intensive Services in Cloud
Bo Li (Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University, USA); Shuaiwen Song (Virginia Tech, USA); Ivona Bezakova (Rochester Institute of Technology, USA); Kirk Cameron (Virginia Tech, USA)
Analysis of Prediction and Replacement Algorithms applied to Real Workload for Storage Devices
Ioram S Sette (C.E.S.A.R, Brazil); Bruno Cartaxo (C.E.S.A.R, Brazil); Thun Pin Chiu (C.E.S.A.R., Brazil); Abel Silva-Filho (Federal University of Pernambuco, Brazil); Rodrigo Assad (C.E.S.A.R., Brazil); Jose Dirceu Ramos (Universidade do Vale do Rio dos Sinos, Brazil); Hamilton Coutinho (Hewlett-Packward, Brazil)
Performance and Power Consumption Measurement of Java Application Servers
Hitoshi Oi (The University of Aizu, Japan); Sho Niboshi (The University of Aizu, Japan)
Using QNA to Evaluate Parameter Tuning in Mission Critical SOA Networks
M. Todd Gardner (University of Missouri, Kansas City & Federal Aviation Administration, USA); Cory Beard (University of Missouri-Kansas City, USA)

4:00 PM – 5:30 PM

VI-A: Cloud and Cluster Operations II

Room: East Falls Church

Chair: Michele Mazzucco (University of Tartu, Estonia)
4:00 Coordinated VM Resizing and Server Tuning: Throughput, Power Efficiency and Scalability
Yanfei Guo (University of Colorado at Colorado Springs, USA); Xiaobo Zhou (University of Colorado at Colorado Springs, USA)
4:30 Reducing Scalability Collapse via Requester-Based Locking on Multicore Systems
Yan Cui (Tsinghua University, P.R. China); Yingxin Wang (Tsinghua University, P.R. China); Yu Chen (Tsinghua University, P.R. China); Yuanchun Shi (Tsinghua University, P.R. China)
5:00 Evaluation of Multi-Core Scalability Bottlenecks in Enterprise Java Workloads
Xavier Guerin (IBM, USA); Wei Tan (IBM, USA); Yanbin Liu (IBM Watson Research Center, USA); Seetharami R Seelam (IBM Research, USA); Parijat Dube (IBM T. J. Watson Research Center, Yorktown Heights, NY, USA)

VI-B: Disk Storage Systems I

Room: West Falls Church

Chair: Robert Haas (IBM, Switzerland)
4:00 H-SWD: Incorporating Hot Data Identification into Shingled Write Disks
Chung-I Lin (University of Minnesota, USA); Dongchul Park (University of Minnesota, USA); Weiping He (University of Minnesota, USA); David Du (University of Minnesota, USA)
4:30 Extent Mapping Scheme for Flash Memory Devices
Young-Kyoon Suh (University of Arizona, USA); Bongki Moon (University of Arizona, USA); Alon Efrat (University of Arizona, USA); Jin-Soo Kim (Sungkyunkwan University, Korea); Sang-Won Lee (Sungkyunkwan University, Korea)
5:00 Emulating a Shingled Write Disk
Rekha Pitchumani (University of California, Santa Cruz, USA); Andy Hospodor (University of California, Santa Cruz, USA); Ahmed Amer (Santa Clara University, USA); Yangwook Kang (University of California, Santa Cruz, USA); Ethan L. Miller (University of California, Santa Cruz, USA); Darrell Long (University of California, Santa Cruz, USA)

6:30 PM – 8:30 PM

Banquet

Room: Westin 2nd Floor

Chair: Srinidhi Varadarajan (Virginia Tech, USA)

Thursday, August 9

9:00 AM – 10:00 AM

VII-A: Wireless Networks II

Room: East Falls Church

Chair: George Riley (Georgia Institute of Technology, USA)
9:00 Using Software-Defined Radio to Validate Wireless Models in Simulation
Ketan Mandke (The University of Texas at Austin, USA); Scott Nettles (University of Texas at Austin, USA)
9:30 Barrier Counting in Mixed Wireless Sensor Networks
Shambhavi Srinivasa (University of Calgary, Canada); Carey Williamson (University of Calgary, Canada); Zongpeng Li (University of Calgary, Canada)

VII-B: Processor Caches

Room: West Falls Church

Chair: Xubin He (Virginia Commonwealth University, USA)
9:00 MERCURY: A Scalable and Similarity-aware Scheme in Multi-level Cache Hierarchy
Yu Hua (University of Nebraska-Lincoln, USA); Xue Liu (McGill Univerisity, Canada); Dan Feng (Huazhong University of Science and Technology, P.R. China)
9:30 Performance Modeling and Characterization of Large Last Level Caches
Parijat Dube (IBM T. J. Watson Research Center, Yorktown Heights, NY, USA); Michael Tsao (IBM T.J. Watson Research Center, USA); Li Zhang (IBM T. J. Watson Research Center, USA); Alan Bivens (IBM, USA)

10:00 AM – 10:30 AM

Coffee Break

10:30 AM – 12:00 PM

VIII: Best Papers

Rooms: East Falls Church, West Falls Church

Chair: Kalyan S. Perumalla (Oak Ridge National Laboratory, USA)
10:30 Carbon-Aware Energy Capacity Planning for Datacenters
Chuangang Ren (Pennsylvania State University, USA); Di Wang (Pennsylvania State University, USA); Bhuvan Urgaonkar (Pennsylvania State University, USA); Anand Sivasubramaniam (Penn State & Tata Consultancy Services, USA)
11:00 A numerical algorithm for the decomposition of cooperating structured Markov processes
Andrea Marin (Universita’ Ca’ Foscari of Venice, Italy); Samuel Rota Bulò (Università Ca’ Foscari, Venezia, Italy); Simonetta Balsamo (Universita’ Ca’ Foscari di Venezia, Italy)
11:30 Evolutionary Trends in a Supercomputing Tertiary Storage Environment
Joel Frank (University of California, Santa Cruz, USA); Ethan L. Miller (University of California, Santa Cruz, USA); Ian Adams (University of California, Santa Cruz, USA); Daniel Rosenthal (University of California, Santa Cruz, USA)

12:00 PM – 1:00 PM

Lunch

1:00 PM – 2:30 PM

IX-A: Applications and Infrastructure

Room: East Falls Church

Chair: Jay Aikat (University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, USA)
1:00 A Measurement Study of Network Coding in Peer-to-Peer Video-on-Demand Systems
Mea Wang (University of Calgary, Canada); Saikat Sarkar (University of Calgary, Canada)
1:30 Enhancing file transfer scheduling and server utilization in data distribution infrastructure
Daniel Higuero (Univesidad Carlos III Madrid, Spain); Juan M Tirado (Universidad Carlos III de Madrid, Spain); Florin Isaila (University Carlos III of Madrid, Spain); Jesus Carretero (Universidad Carlos III de Madrid, Spain)
2:00 Improving the Performance Efficiency of an IDS by Exploiting Temporal Locality in Network Traffic
Govind Sreekar Shenoy (Universitat Politecnica Catalunya, Spain); Jordi Tubella (Universitat Polytechnica Catalunya, Spain); Antonio Gonzalez (Intel and UPC, Spain)

IX-B: Disk Storage Systems II

Room: West Falls Church

Chair: Li Zhang (IBM T. J. Watson Research Center)
1:00 PCM-Based Durable Write Cache for Fast Disk I/O
Zhuo Liu (Auburn University, USA); Bin Wang (Auburn University, USA); Patrick Carpenter (Auburn University, USA); Dong Li (Oak Ridge National Laboratory, USA); Jeffrey Vetter (Oak Ridge National Laboratory & Georgia Institute of Technology, USA); Weikuan Yu (Auburn University, USA)
1:30 Scheduling In Flash-Based Solid-State Drives -Performance Modeling and Optimization
Werner Bux (IBM, Switzerland); Xiao-Yu Hu (IBM Zurich Research Laboratory, Switzerland); Ilias Iliadis (IBM Zurich Research Laboratory, Switzerland); Robert Haas (IBM, Switzerland)
2:00 On the Use of GPUs in Realizing Cost-Effective Distributed RAID
Aleksandr Khasymski (Virginia Tech, USA); M. Mustafa Rafique (Qatar Computing Research Institute & Qatar Foundation, USA); Ali R Butt (Virginia Tech., USA); Sudharshan S Vazhkudai (Oak Ridge National Laboratory, USA); Dimitrios S. Nikolopoulos (Foundation for Research and Technology Hellas (FORTH) & University of Crete, Greece)

2:30 PM – 2:40 PM

CR: Closing Remarks

Rooms: East Falls Church, West Falls Church

Chairs: Kalyan S. Perumalla (Oak Ridge National Laboratory, USA), Srinidhi Varadarajan (Virginia Tech, USA)