May 30 - June 1, 2011
Haifa, Israel

Program

Keynote speakers

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Proceedings of the 4th Annual International Conference on Systems and Storage

May 30, 2011

09:00 Registration: Lobby of IBM Research - Haifa main building

09:30 Welcoming Remarks and Best Paper Awards,
Yaron Wolfsthal (IBM), Paula Ta-Shma (IBM) and Liuba Shrira (Brandeis University)

10:00 Keynote Talk: Pushing the Boundaries of Distributed Storage Systems,
Hank Levy (University of Washington) Presentation

11:00 Coffee Break

Session 1: Virtualization and distributed environments
Chair: Sivan Toledo (Tel Aviv University)

11:30 FlurryDB: A Dynamically Scalable Relational Database with Virtual Machine Cloning, Best Student Paper,
Michael Mior and Eyal de Lara (University of Toronto) Presentation

12:00 Distributed and Fault-Tolerant Execution Framework for Transaction Processing,
Toshio Suganuma, Akira Koseki, Kazuaki Ishizaki, Yohei Ueda, Ken Mizuno (IBM), Daniel Silva (Amazon.com, Inc), Hideaki Komatsu, and Toshio Nakatani (IBM) Presentation

12:30 Inter-Cloud Mobility of Virtual Machines,
Kenneth Nagin, David Hadas, Zvi Dubitzky, Alex Glikson, Irit Loy, Benny Rochwerger, and Liran Schour (IBM) Presentation

13:00 Highlights Track (OSDI 2010 Best Paper) - The Turtles Project: Design and Implementation of Nested Virtualization,
Muli Ben-Yehuda, Michael D. Day, Zvi Dubitzky, Michael Factor, Nadav Har'El, Abel Gordon, Anthony Liguori, Orit Wasserman, and Ben-Ami Yassour (IBM)

13:30 Lunch

Session 2 - Adaptation and performance
Chair: Erez Zadok (Stony Brook University)

14:30 Case Studies in Hardware XPath Acceleration – Industry Track Paper,
Dorit Nuzman, David Maze, Victor Kaplansky, Sergei Dyshel, Matthias Nicola, Glenn Marcy, and Alon Dayan (IBM) Presentation

15:00 Efficiently Identifying Working Sets in Block I/O Streams,
Avani Wildani (UC Santa Cruz), Lee Ward (Sandia National Laboratories), and Ethan Miller (UC Santa Cruz) Presentation

15:30 Trading off Quality for Throughput Using Content Adaptation in Web Servers,
Michael Gopshtein and Dror Feitelson (Hebrew University) Presentation

16:00 Poster Session

17:00 Invited Talk - IBM Watson and the Jeopardy Challenge,
Dafna Sheinwald and David Carmel (IBM)

May 31, 2011

09:00 Registration

09:30 Keynote Talk: Efficient Monitoring of Large Distributed Systems,
Daniel Keren (Haifa University) Presentation

10:30 Coffee Break and Networking Session

Session 3 – Saving Energy
Chair: Eyal De Lara (University of Toronto)

11:30 An exact algorithm for energy-efficient acceleration of task trees on CPU/GPU architectures, Best Paper,
Mark Silberstein (Technion – Israel Institute of Technology) and Naoya Maruyama (Tokyo Institute of Technology) Presentation

12:00 On the Energy Consumption and Performance of Systems Software,
Zhichao Li, Radu Grosu, Priya Sehgal, Scott A. Smolka, Scott D. Stoller, and Erez Zadok (Stony Brook University) Presentation

12:30 Sustainable Predictive Storage Management: On-line Grouping for Energy and Latency Reduction,
David Essary (University of Pittsburgh) and Ahmed Amer (Santa Clara University) Presentation

13:00 Highlights Track (Infocom 2011) - On Power and Throughput Tradeoffs of WiFi and Bluetooth in Smartphones,
Roy Friedman, Alex Kogan, and Yevgeny Krivolapov (Technion – Israel Institute of Technology)

13:30 Lunch

Session 4 – Memory Issues
Chair: Krzystof Zielinski (AGH Krakow)

14:30 SCert: Speculative Certification in Replicated Software Transactional Memories,
Nuno Carvalho (INESC-ID/IST), Paolo Romano (INESC-ID), and Luis Rodrigues (INESC-ID/IST) Presentation

15:00 Coping With Context Switches in Lock-Based Software Transactional Memory,
Yehuda Afek, Yoav Cohen, and Adam Morrison (Tel Aviv University) Presentation

15:30 Memory System Performance in a NUMA Multicore Multiprocessor,
Zoltan Majo and Thomas R. Gross (ETH Zurich) Presentation

16:00 Social Event: Tour of Caesarea and Dinner

June 01, 2011

08:30 Registration

09:00 Keynote Talk: Challenges in Building A Commercial Deduplication Storage System,
Kai Li (Princeton University) Presentation

10:00 Coffee Break

Session 5 – Storage
Chair: Dror Feitelson (Hebrew University)

10:30 Prototyping a High-Performance Low-Cost Solid-State Disk,
Evgeny Budilovsky (Tel Aviv University, IBM), Sivan Toledo (Tel Aviv University), and Aviad Zuck (Tel Aviv University, IBM) Presentation

11:00 The Pitfalls of Deploying Solid-State Drive RAIDs,
Nikolaus Jeremic, Gero Mühl (University of Rostock), Anselm Busse, and Jan Richling (TU Berlin) Presentation

11:30 Towards SIRF: Self-contained Information Retention Format - Industry Track Paper,
Simona Rabinovici-Cohen (IBM), Mary G. Baker (HP), Roger Cummings (Symantec Research Labs), Samuel A. Fineberg (HP), and John Marberg (IBM) Presentation

12:00 Anchor-driven Subchunk Deduplication,
Bartłomiej Romański, Łukasz Heldt, Wojciech Kilian, Krzysztof Lichota, and Cezary Dubnicki (9LivesData, LLC) Presentation

12:30 Closing Remarks,
Yaron Wolfsthal (IBM)

12:35 Distribution of boxed lunches

14:00 1st CS-EE Conference on Computer Architecture, Systems and Image Sciences at the Technion