2 December 2024 (Monday)
| Time (HKT) | Event (Room PQ306, PolyU) |
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| 9:30 | Registration desk opens |
| 10:30 - 11:00 | Refreshment Serving |
| 11:00 - 12:15 | Workshop WoSC Session 1 |
| 12:30 - 13:30 | Lunch - Kong Chiu Lau Address: 1/F, Harbour Crystal Centre, 100 Granville Rd, Tsim Sha Tsui East |
| 13:30 - 15:00 | Workshop WoSC Session 2 |
| 15:00 - 15:30 | Coffee break |
| 15:30 - 17:15 | Workshop WoSC Session 3 |
3 December 2024 (Tuesday)
| Time (HKT) | Event (Room PQ306, PolyU) | Event (Room PQ305, PolyU) |
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| 8:15 | Registration desk opens | |
| 9:15 - 10:30 | Workshop WoC | |
| 10:30 - 11:00 | Coffee break | |
| 11:00 - 12:30 | Workshop MID4CC | |
| 12:30 - 13:30 | Lunch - Kong Chiu Lau Address: 1/F, Harbour Crystal Centre, 100 Granville Rd, Tsim Sha Tsui East |
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| 13:30 - 14:30 | Workshop MIDD4DT | Lightning Talks of Demo and Poster Papers |
| 14:30 - 15:00 | Doctoral Symposium Keynote: Hans-Arno Jacobsen |
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| 15:00 - 15:30 | Coffee break | |
| 15:30 - 16:30 | Doctoral Symposium Research Proposal Presentations |
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| 16:30 - 17:00 | Doctoral Symposium Panel Discussion: Marta Patino-Martinez, Hans-Arno Jacobsen, Wei Wang, and Qiong Luo |
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4 December 2024 (Wednesday)
| Time (HKT) | Event (InterContinental Grand Stanford HK) |
|---|---|
| 8:15 | Registration desk opens Picasso Room, Level B1 |
| 9:00 - 9:30 | Opening remarks (PC Co-Chairs' slides) Picasso Room, Level B1 |
| 9:30 - 10:30 | Keynote 1 (Kun Tan, 2012 Labs, Huawei) Serverless AI on SuperPODs Picasso Room, Level B1 |
| 10:30 - 10:45 | Coffee break |
| 10:45 - 11:45 | Session 1 (Serverless) Picasso Room, Level B1 |
| 11:45 - 12:00 | Coffee break |
| 12:00 - 13:00 | Session 2 (Heterogeneous Systems) Picasso Room, Level B1 |
| 13:00 - 14:00 | Lunch Academy Room, Level 1 |
| 14:00 - 15:00 | Session 3 (Cloud) Picasso Room, Level B1 |
| 15:00 - 15:15 | Coffee break |
| 15:15 - 16:15 | Session 4 (Industry Papers 1) Picasso Room, Level B1 |
| 16:15 - 17:30 | Free time, relax and enjoy the city |
| 17:30 - 19:00 | Welcome reception and demo/ poster session Opera I-III Rooms, Level B3 |
5 December 2024 (Thursday)
| Time (HKT) | Event (Room TU201, PolyU) |
|---|---|
| 8:15 | Registration desk opens |
| 9:00 - 10:00 | Keynote 2 (Vincent Gramoli, University of Sydney & Redbelly Network) Blockchain Overview: Past, Present, Future |
| 10:00 - 10:15 | Coffee break |
| 10:15 - 11:15 | Session 5 (GPU) |
| 11:15 - 11:30 | Coffee break |
| 11:30 - 12:30 | Session 6 (Distributed ML) |
| 12:30 - 14:00 | Lunch - Ju Yin House Address: 4/F., Communal Building, PolyU |
| 14:00 - 15:00 | Session 7 (Data and Stream Processing) |
| 15:00 - 15:15 | Coffee break |
| 15:15 - 16:15 | Session 8 (Industry Papers 2) |
| 16:15 - 16:30 | Coffee break |
| 16:30 - 17:00 | General assembly community meeting |
| 17:30 - 21:30 |
Cruise banquet (Harbour Cruise - Bauhinia) Note: Group transportation is arranged to the conference banquet. Please arrive at G/F., Communal Building (Core S), PolyU by 17:40 (refer to the campus map). |
6 December 2024 (Friday)
| Time (HKT) | Event (Room TU201, PolyU) |
|---|---|
| 8:15 | Registration desk opens |
| 9:00 - 10:00 | Keynote 3 (Hongxia Yang, The Hong Kong Polytechnic University) Collaboration and Evolution of Foundation and Specialized Models |
| 10:00 - 10:15 | Coffee break |
| 10:15 - 11:15 | Session 9 (Distributed Systems) |
| 11:15 - 11:30 | Coffee break |
| 11:30 - 12:30 | Session 10 (Potpourri) |
| 12:30 - 13:30 | Lunch - Ju Yin House Address: 4/F., Communal Building, PolyU |
| 13:30 - 14:30 | Session 11 (Security and Privacy) |
| 14:30 - 14:45 | Coffee break |
| 14:45 - 15:45 | Session 12 (Systems) |
| 15:45 - 16:00 | Closing |
Workshop WoSC Session 1 - Scalable AI and Optimized Distributed Pipelines in Serverless Computing
Time: 11:00-12:15, 2 December 2024
Venue: Room PQ306, PolyU
Session Chair: Germán T. Eizaguirre
Advancing Serverless Computing for Scalable AI Model Inference: Challenges and Opportunities
Li Wang, Yankai Jiang, Ningfang Mi, Devesh Tiwari (Northeastern University, US)
Intelligent Optimization of Distributed Pipeline Execution in Serverless Platforms: A Predictive Model Approach
Usama Benabdelkrim Zakan (Alterna Tecnologías, S.L.), German Telmo Eizaguirre, Pedro Garcia Lopez (Universitat Rovira i Virgili)
Workshop WoSC Session 2 - Faster Packaging, Extreme Edge, and Energy-aware Scheduling in Serverless Computing
Time: 13:30-15:00, 2 December 2024
Venue: Room PQ306, PolyU
Session Chair: Germán T. Eizaguirre
Forklift: Fitting Zygote Trees for Faster Package Initialization
Yuanzhuo Yang, Kwangjong Choi, Keting Chen, Tyler Caraza-Harter (University of Wisconsin-Madison)
NimbleNet: Serverless Computing for the Extreme Edge in Factory Environments
Kilian Müller, Maximilian Seidler (Friedrich-Alexander-Universität Erlangen-Nürnberg), Peter Ulbrich (TU Dortmund), Norman Franchi (Friedrich-Alexander-Universität Erlangen-Nürnberg)
Energy-Aware Scheduling of a Serverless Workload in an ISA-Heterogeneous Cluster
Simon Arys, Romain Carlier, Etienne Rivière (UCLouvain)
Workshop WoSC Session 3 - Data Pipelines, GraphQL and REST in Serverless Computing
Time: 15:30-17:15, 2 December 2024
Venue: Room PQ306, PolyU
Session Chair: Germán T. Eizaguirre
WoSC Keynote: Building new serverless computing primitives with WebAssembly in a multi-region world
Radu Matei, Co-founder and CTO of Fermyon
Bauplan: Zero-copy, Scale-up FaaS for Data Pipelines
Jacopo Tagliabue (Bauplan, NYU), Tyler Caraza-Harter (University of Wisconsin-Madison), Ciro Greco (Bauplan, NYU)
GraphQL vs. REST: A Performance and Cost Investigation for Serverless Applications
Runjie Jin, Robert Cordingly, Dongfang Zhao, Wes Lloyd (University of Washington Tacoma)
Workshop WoC - Container Technologies and Container Clouds
Time: 9:15-10:30, 3 December 2024
Venue: Room PQ306, PolyU
Session Chair: Germán T. Eizaguirre
A Perfect Fit? Towards Containers on Microkernels
Till Miemietz, Viktor Reusch, Matthias Hille (Barkhausen Institut), Max Kurze, Adam Lackorzynski (TU Dresden), Michael Roitzsch, Hermann Härtig (Barkhausen Institut)
Multi-Stakeholder Policy Enforcement for Distributed Systems
Robert Walther (TU Dresden), Carsten Weinhold (Barkhausen Institut), Peter Amthor (TU Dresden), Michael Roitzsch (Barkhausen Institut)
Workshop MID4CC - Middleware for the Computing Continuum
Time: 11:00-12:30, 3 December 2024
Venue: Room PQ306, PolyU
Session Chair: Antonino Galletta
Using Forecasting Models to Reduce Computation, Communication and Compensate Delay
Johannes Kässinger, Michael Schramm, Frank Dürr, Melanie Heck, Kurt Rothermel, Christian Becker (University of Stuttgart)
Computing Continuum in Heterogeneous Multi-clusters with Resource-Constrained Devices
Marta Patiño-Martinez, Ainhoa Azquet-Alzúaz (Universidad Politécnica de Madrid)
SmartEdge: Towards Configuring Complex Applications in Mobile Edge Computing
Michael Schramm, Melanie Heck, Christian Becker (University of Stuttgart)
Workshop MIDD4DT - Middleware for Digital Twin
Time: 13:30-15:00, 3 December 2024
Venue: Room PQ306, PolyU
Session Chair: Nedra Mellouli
Performance of Smart Contract-based Digital Twins for the Internet of Things
Chalima Dimitra Nassar Kyriakidou, Iakovos Pittaras, Athanasia Maria Papathanasiou, George Xylomenos (Athens University of Economics and Business, George C. Polyzos (The Chinese University of Hong Kong, Shenzhen)
Urban Digital-Twin Planning for Sustainable Smart Cities: System Architecture, Preliminary Experiments, and Open Challenges
Cheng-Chia Lai (National Tsing Hua University), Agnibha Sarkar (Vishwakarma Institute of Technology), Phuong Anh Dinh (SP Jain School of Global Management), Suyash Gaikwad (Vishwakarma Institute of Technology), Cheng-Hsin Hsu (National Tsing Hua University)
Smart Agriculture Framework with Digital Twin: A monitoring Model Based on Clustering and prediction of Multivariate Time Series
Mellouli Nedra, Yahjeb Bouha Khatraty (University Paris 8), Mamadou Tourad Diallo, Mohamedade Farouk Nanne (Nouak Chatt University)
Lightning Talks of Poster and Demo Papers (6 min each + 2 min setup/ transition)
Time: 13:30-14:30, 3 December 2024
Venue: Room PQ305, PolyU
Session Chair: Wei Wang
A Universal Graph Transaction-Log
Sean Rooney, Luis Garcés-Erice, Peter Urbanetz, Daniel Bauer, Enrico Toniato (IBM Research)
vPIM: Processing-in-Memory Virtualization
Dufy Teguia (University of Grenoble Alpes), Jiaxuan Chen, Stella Bitchebe, Oana Balmau (McGill University), Alain Tchana (Grenoble INP)
Grid-aware Energy Management by Data Center Workload Control Across Multiple Data Centers
Yoji Ozawa, Satoshi Kaneko, Taku Okamura, Tetsu Moriwake (Hitachi Ltd.), Yuichi Nabetani, Daiki Shimizu, Soichiro Kumagai (TEPCO Power Grid, Inc.)
SCALE: Ahead-Of-Time Compilation of CUDA for AMD GPUs
Manos Pavlidakis, Chris Kitching, Nicholas Tomlinson, Michael Søndergaard (Spectral Compute)
Poster - Towards embracing object granularity in tiered memory management for Big Data
Maciej Kokociński, Tadeusz Kobus, Krystian Chmielewski, Rafał Pyzik, Maciej Maciejewski (Huawei Warsaw Research Center)
Personalized Privacy-Preserving Federated Learning
Cedric Boscher, Nawel Benarba, Fatima ElHattab, Sara Bouchenak (INSA Lyon)
KDB: A Persistent Key-Value Data Store with Batch Updates and Snapshots
Tadeusz Kobus, Maciej Kokociński, Krzysztof Kortas, Paweł T. Wojciechowski (Poznan University of Technology)
Doctoral Symposium Research Proposal Presentations (10-min presentation + 10-min Q&A)
Time: 15:30-16:30, 3 December 2024
Venue: Room PQ305, PolyU
Session Chair: Wei Wang
Comparative Analysis and Optimization of LoRA Adapter Co-serving for Large Language Models
Jiaxuan Chen (McGill University)
Distributed Computation Offloading in Heterogeneous Edge Environments
Anton Semjonov (University of Hamburg)
Towards Interoperability of APIs - an LLM-based approach
René Lehmann (University of Duisburg-Essen)
Session 1 - Serverless
Time: 10:45-11:45, 4 December 2024
Venue: Picasso Room, Level B1, InterContinental Grand Stanford HK
Session Chair: Etienne Rivière
Enhancing Effective Bidirectional Isolation for Function Fusion in Serverless Architectures
Tianyu Li (Shanghai Jiao Tong University & DistriNet Group-T, KU Leuven), Yingpeng Chen, Donghui Yu, Yuanyuan Zhang (Shanghai Jiao Tong University), Bert Lagaisse (DistriNet Group-T, KU Leuven)
In Serverless, OS Scheduler Choice Costs Money: A Hybrid Scheduling Approach for Cheaper FaaS
Yuxuan Zhao, Weikang Weng, Rob van Nieuwpoort (Leiden University), Alexandru Uta (DFINITY)
STRATA: Random Forests going Serverless
Dimitrios Tomaras (Athens University of Economics and Business), Sebastian Buschjäger (TU Dortmund), Vana Kalogeraki (Athens University of Economics and Business), Katharina Morik (TU Dortmund), Dimitrios Gunopulos (National and Kapodistrian University of Athens)
Dexter: A Performance-Cost Efficient Resource Allocation Manager for Serverless Data Analytics
Anna Maria Nestorov, Diego Marrón, Alberto Gutierrez-Torre (Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya), Chen Wang, Claudia Misale, Alaa Youssef (IBM T.J. Watson Research Center), David Carrera (Nearby Computing), Josep Lluís Berral (Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya). Presenter: Aaron Call (Barcelona Supercomputing Center).
Session 2 - Heterogeneous Systems
Time: 12:00-13:00, 4 December 2024
Venue: Picasso Room, Level B1, InterContinental Grand Stanford HK
Session Chair: Raúl Gracia
L3: Latency-aware Load Balancing in Multi-Cluster Service Mesh
Olivier Michaelis, Stefan Schmid (TU Berlin), Habib Mostafaei (Eindhoven University of Technology)
BASS: A Resource Orchestrator to Account for Vagaries in Network Conditions in Community Wi-Fi Mesh
Manasvini Sethuraman, Anirudh Sarma, Netra Ghaisas, Adwait Bauskar, Ashutosh Dhekne (Georgia Tech), Anand Sivasubramaniam (Penn State University), Kishore Ramachandran (Georgia Tech)
Near-Storage Processing in FaaS Environments with Funclets
Alan Nair, Raven Szewczyk, Donald Jennings, Antonio Barbalace, Donald Jennings (University of Edinburgh)
HORSE: Ultra-low latency workloads on FaaS platforms
Djob Mvondo, François Taïani, Yérom-David Bromberg (Univ Rennes, CNRS, INRIA, IRISA)
Session 3 - Cloud
Time: 14:00-15:00, 4 December 2024
Venue: Picasso Room, Level B1, InterContinental Grand Stanford HK
Session Chair: Jan S. Rellermeyer
UTwinVM: Reliable hints on the effects of hypervisor updates on VMs in the Cloud
Djob Mvondo (Univ Rennes, CNRS, Inria, IRISA), Tong Xing, Antonio Barbalace (The University of Edinburgh)
SpotVerse: Optimizing Bioinformatics Workflows with Multi-Region Spot Instances in Galaxy and Beyond
Myungjun Son, Gulsum Gudukbay Akbulut, Mahmut Taylan Kandemir (The Pennsylvania State University)
sMVX: Multi-Variant Execution on Selected Code Paths
SengMing Yeoh (Virginia Tech), Xiaoguang Wang (University of Illinois Chicago), Jae-Won Jang, Binoy Ravindran (Virginia Tech)
Ripple: Large-Scale Service and Configuration Management in the Cloud
Shuping Ji (Chinese Academy of Sciences), Zhen Tang, Wei Wang, Hui Li (Chinese Academy of Sciences & University of Chinese Academy of Sciences & University of Chinese Academy of Sciences Nanjing College), Jianguo Yao (Shanghai Jiao Tong University & Jinan Inspur Data Technology Co., Ltd), Hans-Arno Jacobsen (University of Toronto)
Session 4 - Industry Papers 1
Time: 15:15-16:15, 4 December 2024
Venue: Picasso Room, Level B1, InterContinental Grand Stanford HK
Session Chair: Do Le Quoc
A Conversational Assistant Framework for Automation
Evelyn Duesterwald, Vatche Isahagian, K. R. Jayaram, Ritesh Kumar, Vinod Muthusamy, Punleuk Oum, Gegi Thomas, Praveen Venkateswaran (IBM Research AI)
ColdPurge: Effecient Metadata Cache Cleaning via Accurate Online Data Hotness Tracking
Yuhang Li, Rong Gu, Simian Li (Nanjing University), Baohan Wang, Wei Yu (China Mobile Suzhou Software Technology Co., Ltd)
Serverful Functions: Leveraging Servers in Complex Serverless Workflows
German T. Eizaguirre, Daniel Barcelona-Pons, Aitor Arjona (Universitat Rovira i Virgili), Gil Vernik (IBM Research), Pedro García López (Universitat Rovira i Virgili), Theodore Alexandrov (EMBL)
Microcosm: A Scalable Transaction Processing Scheme for Modular Blockchain
Mansub Song, Hyojin Song, Nadine Ben Amar, Yunhyeong Seo (Seoul National University), Yongseok Son (Chung-Ang University), Hyeonsang Eom (Seoul National University)
Demo and Poster Session
Time: 17:30-19:00, 4 December 2024
Venue: Opera I-III Rooms, Level B3, InterContinental Grand Stanford HK
Session Chair: Wei Wang
Demo - A Universal Graph Transaction-Log
Sean Rooney, Luis Garcés-Erice, Peter Urbanetz, Daniel Bauer, Enrico Toniato (IBM Research)
Demo - SCALE: Ahead-Of-Time Compilation of CUDA for AMD GPUs
Manos Pavlidakis, Chris Kitching, Nicholas Tomlinson, Michael Søndergaard (Spectral Compute)
Demo - Zero-Setup Computation Offloading to Heterogeneous Volunteer Devices Using Web Browsers
Anton Semjonov, Janick Edinger (Universität Hamburg)
Poster - An LLM-driven Framework for Dynamic Infrastructure as Code Generation
Junhee Lee, Sungjoo Kang (Electronics and Telecommunication Research Institute), In-Young Ko (KAIST)
Poster - Chasing Lightspeed Consensus: Fast Wide-Area Byzantine Replication with Mercury
Christian Berger (University of Passau), Lívio Rodrigues (Universidade de Lisboa), Hans P. Reiser (Reykjavik University), Vinicius Cogo, Alysson Bessani (Universidade de Lisboa)
Poster - FDPVirt: Investigating the Behavior of FDP SSDs
Joonyeop Park, Hyeonsang Eom (Seoul National University)
Poster - Grid-aware Energy Management by Data Center Workload Control Across Multiple Data Centers
Yoji Ozawa, Satoshi Kaneko, Taku Okamura, Tetsu Moriwake (Hitachi Ltd.), Yuichi Nabetani, Daiki Shimizu, Soichiro Kumagai (TEPCO Power Grid, Inc.)
Poster - LightZone: Lightweight Hardware-Assisted In-Process Isolation for ARM64
Ziqi Yuan, Siyu Hong, Ruorong Guo, Rui Chang (Zhejiang University), Mingyu Gao (Tsinghua University), Wenbo Shen, Yajin Zhou (Zhejiang University)
Poster - Personalized Privacy-Preserving Federated Learning
Cedric Boscher, Nawel Benarba, Fatima ElHattab, Sara Bouchenak (INSA Lyon)
Poster - Creek: A Mixed-Consistency Replication Scheme
Maciej Kokociński, Tadeusz Kobus, Paweł T. Wojciechowski (Poznan University of Technology)
Poster - Ripple: Large-Scale Service and Configuration Management in the Cloud
Shuping Ji (Chinese Academy of Sciences), Zhen Tang, Wei Wang, Hui Li (Chinese Academy of Sciences & University of Chinese Academy of Sciences & University of Chinese Academy of Sciences Nanjing College), Jianguo Yao (Shanghai Jiao Tong University & Jinan Inspur Data Technology Co., Ltd), Hans-Arno Jacobsen (University of Toronto)
Poster - RoleML: a Role-Oriented Programming Model for Customizable Distributed Machine Learning on Edges
Yuesheng Tan, Lei Yang, Wenhao Li, Yuda Wu (South China University of Technology)
Poster - Towards Resilience of Community-based Intrusion Detection
Philipp Eichhammer (University of Passau)
Poster - Userland page table - a key for transparent persistent memory
Jana Toljaga (Inria Saclay & Télécom SudParis), Nicolas Derumigny, Yohan Pipereau, Mathieu Bacou (Télécom SudParis), Gaël Thomas (Inria Saclay)
Poster - Fine-Grained CUDA Call Interception for GPU Virtualization
Manos Pavlidakis (FORTH-ICS), Anargyros Argyros (FORTH-ICS & UoC-CSD), Stelios Mavridis (FORTH-ICS), Giorgos Vasiliadis (Hellenic Mediterranean University & FORTH), Angelos Bilas (University of Crete & FORTH)
Poster - KDB: A Persistent Key-Value Data Store with Batch Updates and Snapshots
Tadeusz Kobus, Maciej Kokociński, Krzysztof Kortas, Paweł T. Wojciechowski (Poznan University of Technology)
Poster - Towards embracing object granularity in tiered memory management for Big Data
Maciej Kokociński, Tadeusz Kobus, Krystian Chmielewski, Rafał Pyzik, Maciej Maciejewski (Huawei Warsaw Research Center)
Poster - Towards Affordable Reproducibility Using Scalable Capture and Comparison of Intermediate Multi-Run Results
Nigel Tan (University of Tennessee Knoxville), Kevin Assogba (Rochester Institute of Technology), Walter J. Ashworth, Befikir Bogale (University of Tennessee Knoxville), Franck Cappello (Argonne National Laboratory), M. Mustafa Rafique (Rochester Institute of Technology), Michela Taufer (University of Tennessee Knoxville), Bogdan Nicolae (Argonne National Laboratory)
Poster - vPIM: Processing-in-Memory Virtualization
Dufy Teguia (University of Grenoble Alpes), Jiaxuan Chen, Stella Bitchebe, Oana Balmau (McGill University), Alain Tchana (Grenoble INP)
Poster - zkStream: a Framework for Trustworthy Stream Processing
Janwillem Swalens, Lode Hoste, Emad Heydari Beni, Lieven Trappeniers (Nokia Bell Labs)
Session 5 - GPU
Time: 10:45-11:45, 5 December 2024
Venue: Room TU201, PolyU
Session Chair: Vincenzo Gulisano
Optimal Resource Efficiency with Fairness in Heterogeneous GPU Clusters
Zizhao Mo, Huanle Xu (University of Macau), Wing Cheong Lau (The Chinese University of Hong Kong)
Towards SLO-Compliant and Cost-Effective Serverless Computing on Emerging GPU Architectures
Vivek M. Bhasi, Aakash Sharma, Rishabh Jain (The Pennsylvania State University, University Park), Jashwant Raj Gunasekaran (Adobe Research), Ashutosh Pattnaik (Arm), Mahmut Taylan Kandemir, Chita Das (The Pennsylvania State University, University Park)
Menos: Split Fine-Tuning Large Language Models with Efficient GPU Memory Sharing
Chenghao Hu, Baochun Li (University of Toronto)
Guardian: Safe GPU Sharing in Multi-Tenant Environments
Manos Pavlidakis (FORTH-ICS), Giorgos Vasiliadis (Hellenic Mediterranean University & FORTH-ICS), Anargyros Argyros, Stelios Mavridis, Antony Chazapis (FORTH-ICS), Angelos Bilas (University of Crete & FORTH-ICS)
Session 6 - Distributed ML
Time: 12:00-13:00, 5 December 2024
Venue: Room TU201, PolyU
Session Chair: Sara Bouchenak
FLEdge: Benchmarking Federated Learning Applications in Edge Computing Systems
Herbert Woisetschläger, Alexander Erben (Technical Unversity of Munich), Ruben Mayer (University of Bayreuth), Shiqiang Wang (IBM Research), Hans-Arno Jacobsen (University of Toronto)
RoleML: a Role-Oriented Programming Model for Customizable Distributed Machine Learning on Edges
Yuesheng Tan, Lei Yang, Wenhao Li, Yuda Wu (South China University of Technology)
Amalgam: A Framework for Obfuscated Neural Network Training on the Cloud
Sifat Ut Taki, Spyridon Mastorakis (University of Notre Dame)
Cannikin: Optimal Adaptive Distributed DNN Training over Heterogeneous Clusters
Chengyi Nie, Jessica Maghakian, Zhenhua Liu (Stony Brook University)
Session 7 - Data and Stream Processing
Time: 14:00-15:00, 5 December 2024
Venue: Room TU201, PolyU
Session Chair: Ruben Mayer
QuickDrop: Efficient Federated Unlearning via Synthetic Data Generation
Akash Dhasade (The École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne), Yaohong Ding (The Hong Kong Polytechnic University), Song Guo (Hong Kong University of Science and Technology), Anne-Marie Kermarrec, Martijn de Vos (The École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne), Leijie Wu (The Hong Kong Polytechnic University)
On the Semantic Overlap of Operators in Stream Processing Engines
Vincenzo Gulisano, Marina Papatriantafilou (Chalmers University of Technology), Alessandro Margara (Politecnico di Milano)
SeqCDC: Hashless Content-Defined Chunking for Data Deduplication
Sreeharsha Udayashankar, Abdelrahman Baba, Samer Al-Kiswany (University of Waterloo)
zkStream: a Framework for Trustworthy Stream Processing
Janwillem Swalens, Lode Hoste, Emad Heydari Beni, Lieven Trappeniers (Nokia Bell Labs)
Session 8 - Industry Papers 2
Time: 15:15-16:15, 5 December 2024
Venue: Room TU201, PolyU
Session Chair: Zhengping Qian
StreamSense: Policy-driven Semantic Video Search in Streaming Systems
Gerard Finol, Arnau Gabriel, Pedro García López (Universitat Rovira i Virgili), Raúl Gracia-Tinedo, Luis Liu (Dell Technologies), Reuben Docea, Max Kirchner, Sebastian Bodenstedt (National Center for Tumor Diseases)
A2L: User-Transparent Workload-Adaptive Asynchronous I/O Layer
Byoungchul An (Seoul National University), Hanul Sung (Sangmyung University), Hyeonsang Eom (Seoul National University)
"Back to the Byte": Towards Byte-oriented Semantics for Streaming Storage
Raúl Gracia-Tinedo (Dell Technologies), Flavio Junqueira (Qbeast Analytics), Tom Kaitchuck (Dell Technologies)
Session 9 - Distributed Systems
Time: 10:15-11:15, 6 December 2024
Venue: Room TU201, PolyU
Session Chair: Mohammad Sadoghi
Banyan: Fast Rotating Leader BFT
Yann Vonlanthen, Jakub Sliwinski, Massimo Albarello, Roger Wattenhofer (ETH Zurich)
Chasing Lightspeed Consensus: Fast Wide-Area Byzantine Replication with Mercury
Christian Berger (University of Passau), Lívio Rodrigues (Universidade de Lisboa), Hans P. Reiser (Reykjavik University), Vinicius Cogo, Alysson Bessani (Universidade de Lisboa)
Consensus-Agnostic State-Machine Replication
Alexander Heß, Franz J. Hauck, Echo Meißner (Ulm University)
Targeting Tail Latency in Replicated Systems with Proactive Rejection
Laura Lawniczak, Tobias Distler (Friedrich-Alexander-Universität Erlangen-Nürnberg)
Session 10 - Potpourri
Time: 11:30-12:30, 6 December 2024
Venue: Room TU201, PolyU
Session Chair: Bert Lagaisse
Spyker: Asynchronous Multi-Server Federated Learning for Geo-Distributed Clients
Yuncong Zuo, Bart Cox (TU Delft), Lydia Y. Chen (TU Delft & Université de Neuchatel), Jérémie Decouchant (TU Delft)
PvCC: A vCPU Scheduling Policy for DPDK-applied Systems at Multi-Tenant Edge Data Centers
Yuki Tsujimoto, Yuki Sato, Kenichi Yasukata, Kenta Ishiguro, Kenji Kono (Keio University)
Towards Affordable Reproducibility Using Scalable Capture and Comparison of Intermediate Multi-Run Results
Nigel Tan (University of Tennessee Knoxville), Kevin Assogba (Rochester Institute of Technology), Walter J. Ashworth, Befikir Bogale (University of Tennessee Knoxville), Franck Cappello (Argonne National Laboratory), M. Mustafa Rafique (Rochester Institute of Technology), Michela Taufer (University of Tennessee Knoxville), Bogdan Nicolae (Argonne National Laboratory)
Deep Optimizer States: Towards Scalable Training of Transformer Models Using Interleaved Offloading
Avinash Maurya (Rochester Institute of Technology), Jie Ye (Illinois Institute of Technology), M. Mustafa Rafique (Rochester Institute of Technology), Franck Cappello, Bogdan Nicolae (Argonne National Laboratory)
Session 11 - Security and Privacy
Time: 13:30-14:30, 6 December 2024
Venue: Room TU201, PolyU
Session Chair: Zhi Jin
Towards Practical Homomorphic Aggregation in Byzantine-Resilient Distributed Learning
Antoine Choffrut (Université Paris-Saclay, CEA List), Rachid Guerraoui (The École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne), Rafael Pinot (Sorbonne Université and Université Paris Cité, CNRS, LPSM), Renaud Sirdey (Université Paris-Saclay, CEA List), John Stephan (The École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne), Martin Zuber (CryptoNext Security)
AsyncFilter: Detecting Poisoning Attacks in Asynchronous Federated Learning
Yufei Kang, Baochun Li (University of Toronto)
Privagic: automatic code partitioning with explicit secure typing
Subashiny Tanigassalame (Inria Saclay), Yohan Pipereau, Adam Chader (Télécom SudParis - Institut Polytechnique de Paris), Jana Toljaga (Inria Saclay & Télécom SudParis - Institut Polytechnique de Paris), Gaël Thomas (Inria Saclay), Subashiny Tanigassalame (Télécom SudParis - Institut Polytechnique de Paris)
Personalized Privacy-Preserving Federated Learning
Cedric Boscher, Nawel Benarba, Fatima ElHattab, Sara Bouchenak (INSA Lyon)
Session 12 - Systems
Time: 14:45-15:45, 6 December 2024
Venue: Room TU201, PolyU
Session Chair: Valerio Schiavoni
vPIM: Processing-in-Memory Virtualization
Dufy Teguia (University of Grenoble Alpes), Jiaxuan Chen, Stella Bitchebe, Oana Balmau (McGill University), Alain Tchana (Grenoble INP)
LightZone: Lightweight Hardware-Assisted In-Process Isolation for ARM64
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