February 2019 - Stack@CS Reading Group

[Sysreading] SRG for 3/6: Security manuscript
by James Davis 28 Feb '19

28 Feb '19

Hi folks, On Wed. 6 March we will be discussing a manuscript by Md Salman Ahmed from Dr. Yao's group. It is about (you guessed it!) security. The manuscript is under review so I will not post it here. Contact me for a copy. *Where*: KW2 2225 *When*: Wed. March 6, 11:30-12:30 RSVP here <https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1xD1ESC0ZCrqfuBbw0sOag-M_4-6kRLmak6Q…> so I can buy sufficient food. ~Jamie -- Jamie Davis PhD student, Computer Science, 2015-? Virginia Tech http://people.cs.vt.edu/~davisjam/

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[Sysreading] SRG for 27 Feb: Distributed system errors
by James Davis 26 Feb '19

26 Feb '19

Hi folks, This week we'll be reading An Analysis of Network-Partitioning Failures in Cloud Systems <https://www.usenix.org/conference/osdi18/presentation/alquraan> (Alquraan et al., OSDI'18). I will present the slides. Please look over the paper as usual. *Where*: KW2 2225 *When*: Wed. 27 Feb, 11:30-12:30 RSVP here <https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1qkx__Hj1Hl-VSSL-LWFQq2Jt7pyE4bMq1HP…> so I can buy enough food. Cheers, ~Jamie -- Jamie Davis PhD student, Computer Science, 2015-? Virginia Tech http://people.cs.vt.edu/~davisjam/

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[Sysreading] SRG for 20 Feb: DRAMA
by James Davis 18 Feb '19

18 Feb '19

Hi all, This week Gagan is presenting a paper from USENIX'16 by Pessl et al. *DRAMA: Exploiting DRAM Addressing for Cross-CPU Attacks* <https://www.usenix.org/system/files/conference/usenixsecurity16/sec16_paper…>* (slides <https://www.usenix.org/sites/default/files/conference/protected-files/secur…>).* When: Wed 20 Feb, 11:30-12:30 Where: KW2 2225 Please RSVP here <https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1AD_u4lftSA9y0M77J5Ha53HegrtJYUig6cr…> so I can buy sufficient lunch. Cheers, ~Jamie -- Jamie Davis PhD student, Computer Science, 2015-? Virginia Tech http://people.cs.vt.edu/~davisjam/

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[Sysreading] SRG for 13 Feb
by James Davis 10 Feb '19

10 Feb '19

Hi folks, This week we are having a *manuscript meeting*. *Concept* Members of the reading group have two papers due in the next two weeks. Yin Liu is submitting a manuscript (*security*-themed) and Jamie+Mischa are submitting a manuscript (*software engineering*-themed). This week we will read and discuss those manuscripts, giving feedback to improve the manuscripts before they are submitted. *Logistics* - Wednesday 13 Feb, 11:30-12:30 - KW2 2225 - RSVP here <https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/17S-LPCYeIY_Qn-ZSVGujghvQMwmT5YJE4kU…> I will distribute print copies of the manuscripts on Tuesday. Cheerio, ~Jamie -- Jamie Davis PhD student, Computer Science, 2015-? Virginia Tech http://people.cs.vt.edu/~davisjam/

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[Sysreading] SRG for 6 Feb: Memory Management 1
by James Davis 05 Feb '19

05 Feb '19

Hi folks, Sorry for the last-minute announcement. This week we are reading something (slightly) in the vein of Memory Management. (Next week Gagan will be sharing a hardware perspective!) This week's paper is: *Skyway: connecting managed heaps in distributed big data systems <https://people.cs.uchicago.edu/~shanlu/paper/p56-nguyen.pdf>*, Nguyen et al., ASPLOS'18. (Nguyen also wrote the Yak paper that we read in Fall 2017). I will be presenting. As usual, please try to look over the abstract, intro, and conclusion. RSVP here <https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1cXkpAU1JQFocNh6nG4nWNpIOU9VVBJGft4W…> so I can buy snacks. Cheerio, ~Jamie -- Jamie Davis PhD student, Computer Science, 2015-? Virginia Tech http://people.cs.vt.edu/~davisjam/

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