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AGENDA: HPTS November 3-6, 2019

Sunday, November 3, 2019

Time Activity Location
3:00pm - 6:00pm Registration begins Hearst Social Hall
6:00pm - 7:30pm Dinner Crocker Dining Hall
7:30pm - 9:30pm Beer, Wine, and Chat Director's Cottage
9:30pm - Midnight Night Owls' Whiskey, Wine, and Beer Director's Cottage

* Breakfast, Lunch and Dinner are held in Crocker Dining Hall. All talks are in the Chapel, with the exception of sessions on Monday from 8:30am to 12pm which will be in Fred Farr Forum. All Night Owl's events are in the Director's Cottage.


Monday, November 4, 2019

Time Activity/Subject
7:30am - 8:30am Breakfast
8:30am - 8:40am

Opening Remarks - Ippokratis and Shel

8:40am - 10:00am Keynote and Student Intro Chair: Ippokratis Pandis

Hardware Acceleration in Hyperscale Cloud Infrastructures - Doug Burger (Microsoft)

20 Students in 20 mins - Students

10:00am - 10:30am Break and Snacks
10:30am - 12:00pm Hardware-conscious Data Management Chair: Danica Porobic

Enzian Database machine - Gustavo Alonso (ETHZ)

Unlocking GPU potential with JIT - Anastasia Ailamaki (EPFL)

Fast Networks and the Next Generation of Transactional Database Systems - Tim Kraska (MIT)

12:00pm - 1:30pm Lunch and Break
1:30pm - 3:00pm Distributed Consensus Chair: Adrian Cockcroft

Depending on Appending - Pat Helland (Salesforce)

Distributed Consensus Revised - Heidi Howard (Cambridge)

Sometimes-coordinating systems have dangerous emergent behaviors - Marc Brooker (AWS)

3:00pm - 3:30pm Break and Snacks
3:30pm - 5:00pm Is there anything technically interesting in NewSQL? Chair: Mark Callaghan

A story of unification: from Apache Spark to Delta Lake - Reynold Xin (Databricks)

Apache Kudu: Fast Analytics on Fast Data - Adar Lieber-Dembo (Cloudera)

Making HTAP Real - Ed Huang (PingCAP)

Rockset: Powering fast SQL over semi-structured data for Operational Analytics - Dhruba Borthakur (Rockset)

5:00pm - 6:00pm Poster Session Discussions or Break

To provide a focal point for discussions, bring or make a poster on some subject of interest, put it up in the Chapel, stand near it and see who drops by for a chat.

6:00pm - 7:30pm Dinner
7:30pm - 9:00pm Gong Show Presentations MC: Peter Alvaro

A fixed list of short (max 5 minute) presentations.

9:00pm - Midnight Night Owls' Whiskey, Wine, and Beer

Tuesday, November 5, 2019

7:30am - 8:30am Breakfast
8:30am - 10:00am Verification and Testing Chair: Peter Alvaro

Black-Box Serializability Verification - Kyle Kingsbury (Jepsen)

Automated fault diagnostics - Kamala Ramasubramanian (UCSC)

Debugging Your Database System - Joy Arulraj (Georgia Tech)

Developing Expertise through Incidents - Nora Jones (Slack)

10:00am - 10:30am Break and Snacks
10:30am - 12:00pm Safety Chair: Nora Jones

Safe and Sound - Adrian Cockcroft (AWS)

ExpoDB: Efficient Transaction Processing in Byzantine Fault Tolerant Environments - Mohammad Sadoghi (UC Davis)

Security Changes Everything - Jennie Rogers (Northwestern University)

Banking on Cloud Security - Eric Newcomer (CitiGroup)

12:00pm - 1:30pm Lunch and Break
1:30pm - 3:00pm Transactions and Replication Chair: Sailesh Krisnamurthy

Aurora Multi Master - Justin Levandoski (AWS)

The dangers of logical replication and a practical solution - Jose Faleiro (UC Berkeley)

C8DB: Geo-Replicated, Conflict-Free Document Database - Christopher S. Meiklejohn (Macrometa)

Transactions and Scalability in Cloud Databases - Why Can't We Have Both? - Doug Terry (AWS)

3:00pm - 3:30pm Break and Snacks
3:30pm - 5:00pm Serverless Chair: Joe Hellerstein

A File System for Serverless Computing - Johann Schleier-Smith (UC Berkeley)

Rethinking Storage for the Cloud, Edge, Serverless, and Big Data Era - Badrish Chandramouli (Microsoft)

Beyond FaaS, Towards Stateful Serverless - Jonas Boner (Lightbend)

Orleans Transactions for Middle-Tier Stateful Applications - Philip A Bernstein (Microsoft)

5:00pm - 6:00pm Poster Session Discussions or Break

To provide a focal point for discussions, bring or make a poster on some subject of interest, put it up in the Chapel, stand near it and see who drops by for a chat.

6:00pm - 7:30pm Dinner
7:30pm - 9:00pm

Remembering Pat O'Neil (led by Phil Bernstein) in the Chapel

Family Feud - MC: Shel Finkelstein

HPTS Community (Pat Helland)

9:00pm - Midnight Night Owls' Whiskey, Wine, and Beer


Wednesday, November 6, 2019

7:30am - 8:30am Breakfast
8:30am - 10:00am Storage Chair: Tim Kraska

Database With Many Storage Tiers - Siying Dong (Facebook)

Database Systems in the Microsecond Era - Philippe Bonnet (ITU Copenhagen)

An Empirical Guide to Scalable Persistent Memory - Joe Izraelevitz (CU Boulder)

Data-centric Operating Systems: Non-volatile Memory and the Death of the Process - Daniel Bittman (UCSC)

10:00am - 10:30am Break and Snacks
10:30am - 12:00pm OS and closing thoughts Chair: Fatma Ozcan

The Cloud Without the Fluff Rethinking Resource Disaggregation - Ryan Stutsman (U of Utah)

Fast, fault-tolerant transactions as an OS extension - Benjamin Braun (Stanford University)

Thoughts from a Strayed Attendee - Alfred Z. Spector (Two Sigma)

12:00pm - 1:30pm Lunch and Goodbye