Preliminary Program for First Workshop on

Architectures and Systems for Big Data

9:00 - 10:30      Keynote - Scott Schneider, IBM Research, “Exploiting Parallelism in Streaming Systems”

Morning break: 10:30 to 11

11:00-11:30        Autonomous Collaborative Memory System for High-Performance and Cost-Effective Clustered Architectures, Ahmad Samih, Ren Wang, Christian Maciocco, Charlie Tai and Yan Solihin (Intel Labs and NCSU)

11:30-12:00        Evaluation of I/O technologies on a flash-based I/O sub-system for HPC, Pietro Cicotti, Jeffrey Bennet, Shawn Strande, Robert Sinkovits and Allan Snavely (SDSC)

12:00-12:30        Extending MPI to Accelerators, Jeff Stuart, Pavan Balaji and John Owens (UC Davis and Argonne National Laboratories)

Lunch: 12:30-2:00

2:00 to 3:00 Keynote - Siamak Tavallaei, Hewlett Packard, “Challenges on the Road Towards Big Data”

3:00-3:30         Automatic Task Slots Assignment in Hadoop MapReduce, Kun Wang, Juwei Shi, Ben Tan and Bo Yang (Peking University and IBM Research – China)

Afternoon break: 3:30 to 4:00

4:00-4:30         Myriad - Parallel Data Generation on Shared-Nothing Architectures, Alexander S. Alexandrov, Berni Schiefer, John Poelman, Stephan Ewen, Thomas Bodner and Volker Markl (TU Berlin, IBM)

4:30-5:00 Application-driven Energy-efficient Architecture Explorations for Big Data, Xiaoyan Gu, Rui Hou, Ke Zhang, Lixin Zhang and Weiping Wang (Institute of Computing Technology, Chinese Academy of Sciences)

5:00-6:00 Birds of a Feather Discussion

Adjourn