Conference Program

The EuroSys 2012 program committee accepted 27 out of 178 submissions (15.16%). The main conference program can be found below. You can also download the program booklet. Please note that changes are still possible, consult this page often.

Proceedings are available online from the ACM Digital Library or from the local mirror (password-protected) of the USB key provided to attendes of the conference.

Program at a Glance

	Tue, Apr 10, 2012	Wed, Apr 11, 2012	Thu, Apr 12, 2012	Fri, Apr 13, 2012
08:00	Registration	Registration	Registration	Registration
08:30	Workshops Tutorials	Opening	Session 5	Keynote
09:00		Session 1
09:30				Session 9
10:00	Coffee	Coffee	Coffee
10:30	Workshops Tutorials	Session 2	Session 6	Coffee
11:00				Session 10
11:30
12:00	Lunch	Lunch	Lunch	Closing
12:30
13:00			Posters
13:30	Workshops Tutorials SC Meeting	Session 3	Session 7
14:00
14:30
15:00	Coffee	Coffee	Posters & Coffee
15:30	Workshops SC Meeting	Session 4
16:00			Session 8
16:30
17:00		General Assembly & Reception
17:30			Posters
18:00	Welcome Reception
18:30
...
19:30			Banquet Dinner
...
22:30

Tuesday, April 10, 2012

• EuroDW 2012: EuroSys Doctoral Workshop
• CloudCP 2012: 2nd International Workshop on Cloud Computing Platforms
• HotCDP 2012: Workshop on Hot Topics in Cloud Data Processing
• MPM 2012: Workshop on Measurement, Privacy, and Mobility
• SFMA 2012: 2nd Workshop on Systems for Future Multi-core Architectures
• SNS 2012: 5th Workshop on Social Network Systems
• EuroSec 2012: 5th European Workshop on System Security
• WTM 2012: Euro-TM Workshop on Transactional Memory

• (BFT) State Machine Replication: Hype and Virtue... and even some Practice

Wednesday, April 11, 2012

• STM in the small: trading generality for performance in software transactional memory
  Aleksandar Dragojevic (EPFL) and Tim Harris (Microsoft Research)
• Improving Server Applications with System Transactions
  Sangman Kim, Michael Lee, Alan Dunn, and Owen S. Hofmann (The University of Texas at Austin), Xuan Wang (Stony Brook University), Emmett Witchel (The University of Texas at Austin), and Donald E. Porter (Stony Brook University)

• Where is the energy spent inside my app? Fine Grained Energy Accounting on Smartphones with Eprof
  Abhinav Pathak and Y. Charlie Hu (Purdue University) and Ming Zhang (Microsoft Research)
• Energy Efficiency for Large-Scale MapReduce Workloads with Significant Interactive Analysis
  Yanpei Chen and Sara Alspaugh (UC Berkeley), Dhruba Borthakur (Facebook), and Randy Katz (UC Berkeley)
• GreenHadoop: Leveraging Green Energy in Data-Processing Frameworks
  Inigo Goiri, Kien Le, and Thu D. Nguyen (Rutgers University), Jordi Guitart and Jordi Torres (UPC), and Ricardo Bianchini (Rutgers University)

• Frugal Storage for Cloud File Systems
  Krishna Puttaswamy, Thyaga Nandagopal, and Murali Kodialam (Bell Labs, Alcatel-Lucent)
• Kineograph: Taking the Pulse of a Fast-Changing and Connected World
  Raymond Cheng (University of Washington), Ji Hong (Fudan University), Aapo Kyrola (Carnegie Mellon University), Youshan Miao (University of Science and Technology of China), Xuetian Weng (Peking University), Ming Wu, Fan Yang, and Lidong Zhou (Microsoft Research Asia), Feng Zhao (Microsoft Research Asia), and Enhong Chen (University of Science and Technology of China)
• Jockey: Guaranteed Job Latency in Data Parallel Clusters
  Andrew D. Ferguson (Brown University), Peter Bodik and Srikanth Kandula (Microsoft Research), Eric Boutin (Microsoft), and Rodrigo Fonseca (Brown University)

• The Xen-Blanket: Virtualize Once, Run Everywhere
  Dan Williams (Cornell/IBM), Hani Jamjoom (IBM T. J. Watson Research Lab), and Hakim Weatherspoon (Cornell University)
• Isolating Commodity Hosted Hypervisors with HyperLock
  Zhi Wang, Chiachih Wu, and Michael Grace (North Carolina State University) and Xuxian Jiang (North Carolina State Univeristy)
• Delusional Boot: Securing Cloud Hypervisors without Massive Re-engineering
  Anh M. Nguyen (UIUC), Himanshu Raj (Microsoft Research), Shravan Rayanchu (U. of Wisconsin), and Stefan Saroiu and Alec Wolman (Microsoft Research)

Thursday, April 12, 2012

• A Critique of Snapshot Isolation
  Daniel Gómez Ferro and Maysam Yabandeh (Yahoo! Research)
• LazyBase: Trading freshness for performance in a scalable database
  Jim Cipar and Greg Ganger (CMU) and Kimberly Keeton, Charles B. Morrey III, Craig Soules, and Alistair Veitch (HP Labs)
• Cache Craftiness for Fast Multicore Key-Value Storage
  Yandong Mao (MIT), Eddie Kohler (Harvard), and Robert Morris (MIT)

• MadLINQ: Large-Scale Distributed Matrix Computation for the Cloud
  Zhengping Qian and Xiuwei Chen (Microsoft Research Asia), Nanxi Kang and Mingcheng Chen (Shanghai Jiaotong University), Yuan Yu (Microsoft Research Silicon Valley), and Thomas Moscibroda and Zheng Zhang (Microsoft Research Asia)
• Jettison: Efficient Idle Desktop Consolidation with Partial VM Migration
  Nilton Bila and Eyal de Lara (University of Toronto), Kaustubh Joshi, H. Andres Lagar-Cavilla, and Matti Hiltunen (AT&T Labs Research), and Mahadev Satyanarayanan (Carnegie Mellon University)
• Practical TDMA for Datacenter Ethernet
  Bhanu C. Vattikonda, George Porter, Amin Vahdat, and Alex C. Snoeren (University of California, San Diego)

• Scalable Testing of File System Checkers
  Joao Carreira and Rodrigo Rodrigues (MPI-SWS), George Candea (EPFL), and Rupak Majumdar (MPI-SWS)
• Delta FTL: Improving SSD Lifetime via Exploiting Content Locality
  Guanying Wu and Xubin He (Virginia Commonwealth University)
• FlashTier: A Lightweight, Consistent and Durable Storage Cache
  Mohit Saxena, Michael M. Swift, and Yiying Zhang (University of Wisconsin-Madison)

• Fast Black-Box Testing of System Recovery Code
  Radu Banabic and George Candea (EPFL)
• CheapBFT: Resource-efficient Byzantine Fault Tolerance
  Rüdiger Kapitza (TU Braunschweig), Johannes Behl (Friedrich-Alexander University Erlangen-Nuremberg), Christian Cachin (IBM Research - Zurich), Tobias Distler and Simon Kuhnle (Friedrich-Alexander University Erlangen-Nuremberg), Seyed Vahid Mohammadi (KTH – Royal Institute of Technology), and Wolfgang Schröder-Preikschat and Klaus Stengel (Friedrich-Alexander University Erlangen-Nuremberg)
• Canal: Scaling social network-based Sybil tolerance schemes
  Bimal Viswanath, Mainack Mondal, and Krishna Gummadi (MPI-SWS), Alan Mislove (Northeastern University), and Ansley Post (MPI-SWS)

Friday, April 13, 2012

• Biologically-Inspired Massively-Parallel Computing

• Improving Interrupt Response Time in a Verifiable Protected Microkernel
  Bernard Blackham, Yao Shi, and Gernot Heiser (NICTA and University of New South Wales)
• Improving network connection locality on multicore systems
  Aleksey Pesterev (MIT), Jacob Strauss (Quanta Research Cambridge), and Nickolai Zeldovich and Robert T. Morris (MIT)

• TM2C: a Software Transactional Memory for Many-Cores
  Vincent Gramoli, Rachid Guerraoui, and Vasileios Trigonakis (EPFL)
• BWS: Balanced Work Stealing for Time-Sharing Multicores
  Xiaoning Ding (Intel ISTC for Cloud Computing), Kaibo Wang (The Ohio State University), Phillip B. Gibbons (Intel ISTC for Cloud Computing), and Xiaodong Zhang (The Ohio State University)