DIMACS Working Group on Algorithms for Green Data Storage

December 16 - 17, 2013
DIMACS Center, CoRE Building, Rutgers University

Organizers:

Stark Draper, University of Toronto, stark.draper at utoronto.ca

Emina Soljanin, Bell Labs, emina at research.bell-labs.com

Workshop Program:

Day 1: Working Group - Monday, December 16, 2013

 8:00 -  9:00  Registration and Breakfast - 4th Floor, Lounge, CoRE Building

 9:10 -  9:30  Welcome and Greetings by the organizers 
               Emina Soljanin, Bell Labs, and Stark Draper, University of Toronto

 9:30 - 10:30  A Survey on Power-Reduction Techniques for Data-Center Storage Systems  
               Tom Bostoen, Bell Labs	
			 
10:30 - 11:00  Break

11:00 - 12:00  Availability and Locality in Distributed Storage
               Alex Dimakis, UT Austin
               
12:00 -  1:50  Lunch - 4th Floor, Lounge, CoRE Building

 1:50 -  2:00  Director's Welcome 
               Rebecca Wright, Director of DIMACS		

 2:00 -  3:00  Performance Metrics and Protocols for Data Centers and SANs in Multimedia
               Muriel Medard, MIT 
			
 3:00 -  3:30  Break - 4th Floor, Lounge, CoRE Building

 3:30 -  4:30  ParGreening Datacenters Through Self-Generation of Renewable Energy 
               Thu Nguyen, Rutgers

 4:30 -  6:30  Discussions and Visit to Parasol 

Day 2: Working Group - Tuesday, December 17, 2013

 8:30 -  9:30  Breakfast - 4th Floor, Lounge, CoRE Building

 9:30 - 10:30  Speeding up Content Retrieval in Distributed Systems: Do Redundancy and Cooperation Help?
               Kannan Ramchandran, UC Berkeley

10:30 - 11:00  Break

11:00 - 12:00  Dynamic Power Management in Data Centers 
               Mor Harchol-Balter, CMU

12:00 -  2:00  Lunch  - 4th Floor, Lounge, CoRE Building

 2:00 -  3:00  Performance Diagnosis and Improvements in Data Center Networks  
               Minlan Yu, USC

 3:00 -  3:30  Break

 3:30 -  4:30  Providing Performance Guarantees for Cloud Applications
               Anshul Gandhi, IBM & Stony Brook

 4:30 -  6:30  Closing Discussions and Reception - 4th Floor, Lounge, CoRE Building

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