Program

| Wednesday July 28 | Thursday July 29 | |
| 8:00 | Keynote II | |
| 8:30 | ||
| 9:00 | Session II | |
| 9:30 | Data and storage | |
| 10:00 | ||
| 10:30 | Break | |
| 11:00 | Keynote III | |
| 11:30 | ||
| 12:00 | ||
| 12:30 | ||
| 13:00 | ||
| 13:30 | Keynote IV | |
| 14:00 | ||
| 14:30 | Session III | |
| 15:00 | Networking | |
| 15:30 | Break | |
| 16:00 | Session IV | |
| 16:30 | Break | Handling resources |
| 17:00 | Opening remarks, | |
| 17:30 | then Keynote I | Break |
| 18:00 | 18:15 Break | Keynote V |
| 18:30 | Session I | |
| 19:00 | Reliability and failures | Break |
| 19:30 | ||
| 20:00 |
A more detailed list of keynotes can be found here.
| Keynote I |
| Sibyl: A system for large scale machine learning |
| Tushar Chandra (Google) Slides: PDF |
| Keynote II |
| The Datacenter of the Future. |
| Norm Jouppi (Director of the Exascale Computing Lab, HP, USA) |
| Keynote III |
| J2EE and Massive Main Memories (or: rewrite it all from scratch?) |
| Chet Murthy (Research Staff Member, IBM Research, USA) Slides: PDF |
| Keynote IV |
| Timeless Software: Business Software requirements in the 21st century |
| Burkhard Neidecker-Lutz (Technical Director SAP Research, SAP AG) Slides: PDF |
| Keynote V |
| Delay Tolerant Bulk Data Transfers on the Internet or How to Book Some Terabytes on 'Red-Eye' Bandwidth |
| Pablo Rodriguez Rodriguez (Director of Internet Systems and Networking Group, Telefonica Research Lab, Barcelona, Spain) |
| Session I: RELIABILITY AND FAILURES |
| Reliable Data-Center Scale Computations |
| Pramod Bhatotia, Alexander Wieder, Rodrigo Rodrigues, Flavio Junqueira and Benjamin Reed |
| Fault Prediction in Distributed Systems Gone Wild |
| Marco Canini, Dejan Novaković́, Vojin Jovanović́ and Dejan Kostić |
| Independent Faults in the Cloud |
| Maysam Yabandeh and Rachid Guerraoui |
| Session II: DATA AND STORAGE |
| Data Caching as a Cloud Service |
| Gregory Chockler, Guy Laden and Ymir Vigfusson |
| Data-Centric Reconfiguration with Network-Attached Disks |
| Alexander Shraer, Jean-Philippe Martin, Dahlia Malkhi and Idit Keidar |
| On Bulk Data Loading for Large-scale Analytics Applications |
| Antonio Barbuzzi, Pietro Michiardi, Ernst Biersack and Gennaro Boggia |
| Session III: NETWORKING |
| Sources of Instability in Data Center Multicast |
| Dmitry Basin, Ken Birman, Idit Keidar and Ymir Vigfusson |
| Mosaic: Policy Homomorphic Network Extension |
| L. Erran Li, Michael F. Nowlan, Chen Tian, Y. Richard Yang and Ming Zhang |
| Session IV: HANDLING RESOURCES |
| Conductor: Orchestrating the Clouds |
| Alexander Wieder, Pramod Bhatotia, Ansley Post and Rodrigo Rodrigues |
| Weak Consistency as a Last Resort |
| Marco Serafini and Flavio Junqueira |
| Flexible and Efficient Resource Location in Large-Scale Systems |
| João Alveirinho, João Paiva, João Leitão and Luís Rodrigues |


