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AGENDA: HPTS October 25-28, 2009

Sunday, October 25, 2009

Time Activity Location
3:00pm HPTS Registration begins Main Hall
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.


Monday, October 26, 2009

Time Activity/Subject
7:30 Breakfast
8:45

Welcome to HPTS - James Hamilton and Margo Seltzer

9:00 - 10:30 The New Memory Hierarchy 101 Chair: David Cheriton, Stanford

Memory Technologies for Data Intensive Computing - Andy Bechtolsheim, Sun Microsystems

Flash on Compute Servers - Steve Kleiman, Netapp

10:30 - 11:00 Break
11:00 - 12:30 Using the New Memory Hierarchy Chair: David Cheriton, Stanford

Scaling Out without Partitioning - Phil Bernstein, Microsoft (Abstract)

A Performance Puzzle: B-Tree Insertions Are Slow on SSDs - Bradley Kuszmaul, Tokutek(Abstract)

Implications of Storage Class Memories (SCMs) on Software Architectures - C. Mohan, IBM(Abstract)

12:30 - 2:00 Lunch
2:00 - 3:30 Making our way in a Multicore World Chair: Sam Madden, MIT

Scalable transaction execution on multicore platforms - Ippokratis Pandis, CMU

Systems Software for Multicore Processors - Silas Boyd-Wickiezer, MIT

H-Store: A specialized architecture for high throughput OLTP applications - Evan Jones, MIT and Andy Pavlo, Brown.

3:30 - 4:00 Break
4:00 - 5:30 Coming to your Senses Chair: Jim Waldo, Sun Labs

Mobile Personal Sensing: A new driver for high performance transaction systems? - Jeff Burke, UCLA (Abstract)

A Sea Change is Coming on Transaction Drivers - Wayne Duquaine, Consultant (Abstract)

Meter Automation - Charles Brett, C3B Consulting (Abstract)

Smart Grid Challenges - John Duff, Energy Management Solutions (Abstract)

6:00 - 7:30 Dinner
7:30 - 9:30 Poster Sessions - Chair, Shel Finkelstein
9:30 until ... HPTS Social - Beer, Wine 'n BS continued...

Tuesday, October 27, 2009

9:00 - 10:30 Cloudy, Cloudy Day Chair: Carolyn Norton, IBM

Zetta's Enterprise Cloud Storage Service - Jeff Whitehead, Zetta

I've Looked at Clouds from Both Sides Now - Toby Lehman, IBM (Abstract)

Cloud DB - Peter Gassner, Veeva (Abstract)

Trustworthy Accounting - Santosh Shrivastava, Newcastle (Abstract)

10:30 - 11:00 Break
11:00 - 12:30 Moving to the Cloud Chair: Adrian Cockcroft, Netflix

Enterprise Systems in the Cloud - Rainer Brendle, SAP (Abstract)

Implementing Search in the Cloud - Ted Dunning, DeepDyve (Abstract)

Availability in the Cloud - Kiran-Kumar Muniswamy-Reddy, Harvard (Abstract)

12:30 - 2:00 Lunch
2:00 - 3:30 Playtime's Over Chair: James Gwertzman, PopCap

Lessons Learned Dealing with Massive Scale and Slow Networks in China - Steve Mushero, Chinanet Cloud

Write Caching with Reduced Durability - Tim Blackman, Sun Labs(Abstract)

3:30 - 4:00 Break
4:00 - 5:30 Scaling Chair: David Patterson, UC Berkeley

Challenges and Lessons from Growing an e-Commerce Platform to Planet Scale - Randy Shoup, eBay

High performance at massive scale (No Slides Available) - Jason Sobel, Facebook

RAMCloud: Scalable High-Performance Storage Entirely in DRAM - John Ousterhout, Stanford

6:00 - 7:30 Dinner
7:30 - 9:30 Map/Reduce: A step towards distributed databases or something else? Chair: Margo Seltzer, Harvard

Eugene Shekita, IBM (Abstract)

Mike Olson, Cloudera (Abstract)

Mike Stonebraker, MIT

Daniel Abadi, Yale(Abstract)

9:30 until ... Still more Beer, Wine 'n BS


Wednesday, October 28, 2009

9:00 - 10:00 New Application Challenges Chair: Margo Seltzer, Harvard

Genomic Indexing - Paul Greenfield, CSIRO ICT Centre (Abstract)

Health Care - Dieter Gawlick, Oracle (Abstract)

10:00 - 10:30 Break
10:30 - 12:00 Scientific Databases Chair: Mark Little, RedHat

Supporting Large Scale Scientific and Engineering Applications Using DBMS Technology - Jose Blakeley, Microsoft (Abstract)

SciDB: Unconventional Choices for Scientific Computing - Mike Stonebraker, MIT

Xtremely Large File Systems for the small collaborative world - Arun Jagatheesan, Dice Research (Abstract)

12:00 - 1:30 Lunch