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[Sysreading] Sysreading: Tuesdays 12-1
by James Davis 09 Sep '19

09 Sep '19

Hey folks, This semester the reading group will meet on *Tuesdays 12-1*. Tomorrow we will discuss plans for the semester. No sign-up sheet this week. Just reply to me (not reply all!) if you plan to attend so I can buy enough food. ~Jamie -- Jamie Davis PhD student, Computer Science, 2015-? Virginia Tech http://people.cs.vt.edu/~davisjam/

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[Sysreading] SRG: Scheduling for this semester
by James Davis 05 Sep '19

05 Sep '19

Hey folks, A new semester has begun, and that means it's Reading Group time. I believe that lunchtimes were a success last semester. If you intend to attend reading group this semester, fill out this survey to indicate your available lunchtimes in an average week. Please mark availability in hour-long blocks or longer. http://whenisgood.net/yxae3p3 I am looking forward to another interesting series of discussions. Best, ~Jamie -- Jamie Davis PhD student, Computer Science, 2015-? Virginia Tech http://people.cs.vt.edu/~davisjam/

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[Sysreading] Sysreading for 5/8: Research Jam
by James Davis 05 May '19

05 May '19

Hi folks, This week is the last sysreading for the semester. Come one, come all! We will be having a Research Jam -- everyone will have 1-5 minutes to talk through 0-2 slides about their current research. You don't have to talk, but I encourage all attendees to do so. Talking about your research is good for you! If you want to talk, you should tell us at least: 1. What you're studying, and 2. Why you're studying it Feel free to also share things like: 3. What you've found so far 4. Issues you're having In summary... *When*: Wed. 8 May, 11:30-12:30 *Where*: KW2 2225 *What*: Research Jam *Who:* You! Please RSVP here <https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1DyozsoLFUGvFoItEvyqZXtj-7sefMdFBnV5…> so I can buy sufficient pizza. ~Jamie -- Jamie Davis PhD student, Computer Science, 2015-? Virginia Tech http://people.cs.vt.edu/~davisjam/

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[Sysreading] SRG for 5/1: Distributed Storage Systems #2
by James Davis 29 Apr '19

29 Apr '19

Hi folks, This week Bharti Wadhwa will be talking about work on Lustre load balancing, published at IPDPS'19. *When*: Wed. 1 May, 11:30-12:30 *Where*: KW2 2225 *What*: iez: Resource Contention Aware Load Balancing for Large-Scale Parallel File Systems <http://people.cs.vt.edu/~butta/docs/ipdps2019-iez.pdf> Please RSVP here <https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/17tMDppx3lk5v1WbL72Rc1yvhkpfIiAmzMl7…> so I can buy enough food. I will get more vegetarian-friendly pizza this time! ~Jamie -- Jamie Davis PhD student, Computer Science, 2015-? Virginia Tech http://people.cs.vt.edu/~davisjam/

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[Sysreading] SRG for 4/26: Distributed storage systems #1
by James Davis 22 Apr '19

22 Apr '19

Hi folks, This week Arnab Paul from Dr. Butt's lab will be presenting his research into distributed storage systems, applied to the Lustre file system. *What*: Arnab's research, past and present. Some past papers: Paper 1 <http://people.cs.vt.edu/~butta/docs/bigdata2017-lustre.pdf>, paper 2 <http://people.cs.vt.edu/~butta/docs/pdsw2017-lustre.pdf>. *When*: Wednesday 26 April, 11:30-12:30 *Where*: KW2 2225 *Who*: Arnab Paul will present and lead the discussion Please RSVP here <https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1DzUxFQLOSJFFt0z0l2vHAInvJOSIiguQRXE…> so I can buy enough food. See you then! ~Jamie -- Jamie Davis PhD student, Computer Science, 2015-? Virginia Tech http://people.cs.vt.edu/~davisjam/

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[Sysreading] SRG for 4/17: Compressed memory
by James Davis 14 Apr '19

14 Apr '19

Hi folks, This week we will discuss a paper from ASPLOS'19. *What*: Compress Objects, Not Cache Lines: An Object-Based Compressed Memory Hierarchy <http://people.csail.mit.edu/poantsai/papers/2019.zippads.asplos.pdf>, Tsai & Sanchez, ASPLOS'19 *When*: Wednesday 17 April, 11:30-12:30 *Where*: KW2 2225 *Who*: Muhammad Laghari will lead the discussion. Please RSVP here <https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/12CGut6C0IqWSW-Fm3GXLNZlO1_2pNJK3Ztr…> so I can buy enough food. This week we will be trying Beast of Blacksburg <http://thebeastofblacksburg.com/menu.htm> since they've slashed their prices! Cheerio, ~Jamie -- Jamie Davis PhD student, Computer Science, 2015-? Virginia Tech http://people.cs.vt.edu/~davisjam/

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[Sysreading] sysreading for 4/10: Fuzzing
by James Davis 07 Apr '19

07 Apr '19

Hi folks, This week Stefan Nagy from Dr. Hicks's research group will present his S&P'19 paper on improving the performance of state-of-the-art fuzzing tools. (Fuzzing is more or less a black-box input generation technique). *When*: 11:30-12:30, Wednesday 4/10 *Where*: KW2 2225 *What*: Full Speed Fuzzing: Reducing Fuzzing Overhead through Coverage-guided Tracing <https://arxiv.org/pdf/1812.11875.pdf> *Who*: This presentation should be of interest to performance folks, SE folks interested in input generation and bugs, and security folks interested in finding zero-day exploits. Please RSVP here <https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1QQrmj4vFtZiUQX0pmqYxJAEQMQ3CS4co6TY…> so I can buy sufficient food. Regards, Jamie -- Jamie Davis PhD student, Computer Science, 2015-? Virginia Tech http://people.cs.vt.edu/~davisjam/

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[Sysreading] SRG for April 1: Distributed systems and the CALM theorem
by James Davis 31 Mar '19

31 Mar '19

Hi folks, This week we will be discussing the most recent step in the CALM discussion, from Hellerstein and Alvaro. When: Wed. 1 April, 11:30-12:30 What: Keeping CALM <https://arxiv.org/pdf/1901.01930.pdf> - See also the writeup from A. Colyer on The Morning Paper <https://blog.acolyer.org/2019/03/06/keeping-calm-when-distributed-consisten…> Please RSVP here <https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1tSixtrSdcS_UtycCF7Y5nXfL3Q8NdW9nYwj…> so I can purchase sufficient 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 3/27: Is computer science "science"?
by James Davis 26 Mar '19

26 Mar '19

Hi folks, Sorry for the late announcement. It's been a long week! There *will* be a reading group tomorrow. I have been reading some interesting papers about *whether computer science is, y'know, actually science*. These are "light reading" -- each one takes maybe 10 minutes. They could even be skimmed during the meeting itself. Anyway, tomorrow I'll see those of you brave enough to show up and do epistemological battle. - KW2, 2225, 11:30-12:30: "The usual" - Please RSVP here <https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1dR32qthk5OLrFcJVZydD3CNJfJhaRrD5ooj…> so I can buy food. Paper list: 1. J. Hartmanis, Turing Award lecture on computational complexity and the nature of computer science, 1994 <https://dl.acm.org/citation.cfm?id=214781> 2. F. Brooks, Jr. The Computer Scientist as Toolsmith II, 1996 <http://www.cs.unc.edu/~brooks/Toolsmith-CACM.pdf> 3. Denning et al., Computing as a Discipline, 1989 <https://www.cs.auckland.ac.nz/courses/compsci747s2c/lectures/denning-1989.p…> Cheerio, ~Jamie -- Jamie Davis PhD student, Computer Science, 2015-? Virginia Tech http://people.cs.vt.edu/~davisjam/

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[Sysreading] No SRG this week
by James Davis 18 Mar '19

18 Mar '19

Hi folks, As no one volunteered to lead in my absence, there will be no sysreading group this week. Let me know by tomorrow morning if one of you wishes to lead after all! Otherwise we will resume next week :-) Cheerio, ~Jamie -- Jamie Davis PhD student, Computer Science, 2015-? Virginia Tech http://people.cs.vt.edu/~davisjam/

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