IPP Symposium
on
Cloud Computing
May 13, 2010
This symposium will explore why computing as a utility is finally happening, and the huge implications for society, business, science, and research. It will bring together experts from industry and academia, and also talk about the challenges for Computer Science to making hundreds of thousands of computers work together in a transparent way.
Please RSVP by May 6th to abt@cs.brown.edu or 401-863-7610
Schedule
- 8:30  Breakfast and Registration
- 3rd Floor, CIT Building
- 8:50  Welcome
- 9:00  Cloud Computing
- Orran Krieger, VMware
- 9:40  Doing What Works: Facebook's Innovation at Scale
- Harry Li, Facebook
- 10:20 Break
- 10:30  Yahoo!Cloud Serving Benchmark
- Adam Silberstein, Yahoo!
- 11:10  The Role of Quantitative Models in Building Scalable Cloud Infrastructures
- Joseph Hellerstein, Google, Inc.
- 11:50  Buffet Lunch
- 3rd Floor, CIT Building
- 1:00  Experience Evolving a New Analytical Platform: What Works and What's Missing
- Jeff Hammerbacher, Cloudera
- 1:40  MapReduce and Parallel DBMSs: Together at Last
- Andy Pavlo, Brown University
- 2:20 Break
- 2:35  Combating Stragglers in MapReduce Networks
- Srikanth Kandula, Microsoft
- 3:15  Dynamic Provable Data Possession
- Charalampos Papamanthou, Brown University
- 3:55 Closing Remarks
- 4:00  Reception