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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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[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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