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AGENDA: HPTS October 23-26, 2011

Sunday, October 23, 2011

Time Activity Location
4:00pm HPTS Registration begins Chapel
6:00pm Dinner Crocker Dining Hall
7:00 - until ... HPTS Reception: Beer, Wine 'n BS Chapel

* Breakfast, Lunch and Dinner are held in Crocker Dining Hall.

Note: summaries for various sessions are available too, taken by student participants.


Monday, October 24, 2011

Time Activity/Subject
7:00 - 8:15 Breakfast
8:15

Welcome to HPTS - C. Mohan (IBM) & Michael Carey (UC Irvine)

8:30 - 10:00 Datacenter Trends 101 Chair: Margo Seltzer (Harvard)

Internet-Scale Datacenter Economics: Where the Costs & Opportunities Lie - James Hamilton (Amazon)

The Rise of Dark Silicon - Nikos Hardavellas (Northeastern)

The Hitchhiker's Guide to Precision Time Synchronization - Krishna Sankar (Egnyte)

10:00 - 10:30 Break
10:30 - 12:00 Not Your Traditional Data Management Session Chair: Anastasia Ailamaki (EPFL)

Enterprise Supercomputing - Ike Nassi (SAP)

Forget Locality (original Prezi) - Randall Burns (John Hopkins)

Flexible Hardware for Flexible Data Intensive Software - Arun Jagatheesan (UC San Diego/Samsung)

12:00 - 1:30 Lunch
1:30 - 3:00 Mapping the NoSQL Space Chair: Brian Cooper (Google)

The NoSQL Ecosystem - Adam Marcus (MIT)

The Present and Future of Apache Cassandra - Jonathan Ellis (DataStax)

Oracle's NoSQL Database - Charles Lamb (Oracle)

3:00 - 3:30 Break
3:30 - 5:00 Big Data Experiences & Scars Chair: Ashish Thusoo (Facebook)

NetFlix Goes Global - Adrian Cockcroft (Netflix)

Towards Improved MySQL Scalability and Reliability - Ryan Huddleston (Rightnow)

Storage Infrastructure Behind Facebook Messages - Kannan Muthukkaruppan (Facebook)

6:00 - 7:00 Dinner
7:00 - 10:00 Poster Sessions - Chair, Shel Finkelstein (SAP) & Pranta Das (AppDynamics)
10:00 until ... HPTS Social - Beer, Wine 'n BS continued...

Tuesday, October 25, 2011

8:30 - 10:00 Big Analytics Chair: Jeff Hammerbacher (Cloudera)

Big Data at eBay - Tom Fastner (eBay)

Cosmos: Big Data and Big Challenges - Ed Harris (Microsoft)

Scal(a)ing up Big Graph Analytics - Tyson Condie (Yahoo! Research)

10:00 - 10:30 Break
10:30 - 12:00 Consistency Revisited Chair: Mark Little (Red Hat) & Raghu Ramakrishnan (Yahoo!)

Eventually Consistent is Eventually Not Enough - Mehul Shah (HP)

Flexible OLTP Data Models in the Future - Jags Ramnarayan (VMWare)

Inconsistency and Outconsistency - Shel Finkelstein (SAP) & Pat Helland

12:00 - 1:30 Lunch
1:30 - 3:00 It May Be Fast, But Is It Right? Chair: Chris Newcombe (Amazon)

Debugging Designs - Chris Newcombe (Amazon) [source bundle]

Verifying Real-World Transaction-Processing Code with Microsoft VCC - Ernie Cohen (Microsoft)

Data without Provenance is like a Day without Sunshine - Margo Seltzer (Harvard)

3:00 - 3:30 Break
3:30 - 5:00 Trusting the Cloud Chair: Armando Fox (Berkeley)

Clouds & Condos - Pat Helland

Go Fast and Don't Break Things: Ensuring Quality in the Cloud - Scott Hansma (Salesforce.com)

A Non-Proprietary Social Internet - Monica Lam (Stanford)

6:00 - 7:00 Dinner
7:00 - 9:00 Scale Up vs Scale Out (Debate Panel) Chair: Margo Seltzer (Harvard) & Anastasia Ailamaki (EPFL)

Michael Stonebraker (MIT)

Mark Callaghan (Facebook)

Michael Cahill (Wired Tiger)

Andy Gross (Basho)

9:00 until ... Still more Beer, Wine 'n BS


Wednesday, October 26, 2011

8:30 - 10:00 New Age OLTP Chair: Pat Selinger (IBM)

All The Rules Have Changed - Michael Stonebraker (VoltDB)

HyPer-sonic: Combined Transaction AND Query Processing - Thomas Neuman (T.U. Munich)

Scaling Out With Meld - Phil Bernstein (Microsoft)

10:00 - 10:30 Break
10:30 - 12:00 Mobility Trends & Implications Chair: Sam Madden (MIT)

Data Management Challenges in Location Based Services - Srinivas Narayanan (Facebook)

Urban Data Analysis - Projects, Methods and Tools used to Describe 21st Century Cities - Oliver Senn (MIT SENSEable City Group)

Mobile Data Management in the CarTel System - Sam Madden (MIT CSAIL)

Scalability Under the Hood at Foursquare - Jorge Ortiz (Foursquare)

12:00 - 1:30 Lunch