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We are pleased to welcome our
PDL Consortium Member Companies
to the 17th Annual Parallel Data Lab Workshop and Retreat.
If you are planning to arrive in Pittsburgh over the weekend preceding
the retreat, PDL has several rooms on hold at each
of the hotels listed below. When you call the hotel to make reservations,
tell them that you'd like a room booked for the PDL Retreat (or quote
the appropriate code listed below). You may also book extra nights at
the preferred rate if you request them at the time of your booking.
If there are any problems or questions, please contact Karen Lindenfelser
at 412-268-6716.
Accommodations are available at the following hotels:
TIP: There have been times when your corporate rate beats the rate we were able to secure.
COURTYARD
MARRIOTT - SHADYSIDE
5308 Liberty Avenue
Pittsburgh, PA 15224
1-800-321-2211 - Reservations
412-683-3113 - Reservations
412-683-3133 - Fax
Code = PDL Retreat |
$129+taxes
Parking - $17.88 / day
Reservation deadline: 10-18-09 |
HAMPTON
INN
3315 Hamlet Street
Pittsburgh, PA 15213
412-681-1000 - Reservations
412-681-3022 - Fax
Code = PDL Event |
$119+taxes
Parking - $14 / day
Reservation deadline: 10-15-09 |
RESIDENCE
INN BY MARRIOTT
Pittsburgh / Oakland
3896 Bigelow Boulevard
Pittsburgh, PA 15213
412-621-2200 - Reservations
800-331-3131 - Reservations
412-621-0955 - Fax
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No block contract was made at this hotel
for this event, but feel free to stay here
if it suits you.
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SHADYSIDE
INN
5405 Fifth Avenue
Pittsburgh, PA 15232
412-441-4444 - Reservations
412-687-7312 - FAX
Code = 1969CM
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Vacancies based on availability at time of reservation
Call asap and ask for best CMU rate |
UNIVERSITY
CENTER HOLIDAY INN
100 Lytton Avenue
Pittsburgh, PA 15213
412-682-6200 - Reservations
412-681-4749 - Fax
Code = PDR
Problems Contact: PDL Retreat: Sue Moser – 412-682-6200 |
$126+taxes
Parking - $17 / day
Only 2 rooms available for November 11
Reservation deadline: 10-22-09 |
WYNDHAM
GARDEN HOTEL
3454 Forbes Avenue
Pittsburgh, PA 15213
412-683-2040 - Reservations
412-688-1986 - Fax
Code = PDL Retreat |
Standard Deluxe
$119+taxes
Parking - $17 / day
Reservation deadline: 10-08-09 |
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Transportation
Most of the hotels we have listed above have shuttle transportation
to CMU available. Please request that you be dropped off on the west
end of Frew Street, then refer to the attached map
for directions to the Singleton Room in Roberts Hall.
There are several options available for getting to and from the airport:
Rental Car:
Available at the airport from all the major companies.
Taxi Service (approximately $50
each way)
- Yellow Cab: 412-665-8100
- People's Cab Co.: 412-681-3131
Limousine Service
If you need airport/CMU/airport services, I'd be happy to arrange
this for you -- Karen
Airport Sedan Service (Larry
Waite)
Advance reservations are required, $55 each way
Contact Larry Waite, 412-401-LIMO
(5466)
Majesty Transportation (Nicole
or Stephanie)
Advance reservations are required; $50 each way
www.majestytransportation.com, 412-462-4858
or 1-888-546-6048
Express Shuttle USA (one way $22-$25,
round trip $40-$46). More
info on the web.
Leaves the airport inbound toward CMU starting at 9:00 a.m. every hour
until 10:00 p.m. Monday through Friday and starting at 10:00 a.m. running
until 4 p.m. on Saturdays and 2:00 p.m. on Sundays every two hours.
Leaves the hotels listed below on the hour (M-F) starting at:
- Holiday Inn: 5:50 a.m., no reservation required
- Wyndham Garden: 6:00 a.m., no reservation required
- Hampton Inn: 6:05 a.m., reservations required
- does not schedule stops at the Shadyside Inn
Airport Shuttle (PATransit
28X - Airport Flyer) (approximately $2.50 each way)
Leaves CMU from the corner of Forbes and Morewood Avenues every 20 minutes
starting at
5:00 a.m., last shuttle at 10:40 p.m. Shuttle leaves the airport from
the baggage level starting at 5:45 a.m. approximately every 20 minutes.
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MAPS
Bedford Springs Resort
Bedford Springs Resort is a four season, historically significant destination located on 2,200-acres. It began welcoming guests over 200 years ago when the mineral springs of Bedford Springs, PA became known as a source of rejuvenation.
The resort is approximately 90 miles east of Pittsburgh.
CMU Retreat attendees and guests will travel to Bedford Springs on Monday,
November 9 and return Wednesday, November 11. We will provide bus transportation
to the resort on Monday and back to Pittsburgh and the Pittsburgh International
airport on Wednesday afternoon.
Participants of the retreat will be members of the PDL Consortium and
invited guests. Information on becoming a member of the consortium is
available from Karen Lindenfelser, Bill Courtright (PDL Executive Director), or Greg Ganger (PDL Director).
Click to view a map and print driving directions.
Agenda details will be added as the event approaches.
Monday, November 9: CMU/Bedford Springs Resort
| 8:30 am - 9:00 am |
Registration & Continental Breakfast
-- SINGLETON ROOM, ROBERTS HALL |
| 9:00 am - 9:30 am |
Welcome -- SINGLETON ROOM
Greg Ganger - Parallel Data Lab Retreat Welcome & Overview |
| 9:30 am - 10:30 am |
Speaker-- SINGLETON ROOM
Seth Goldstein - Claytronics and Parallel Computing |
| 10:30 am - 11:30 am |
Industry Poster Session -- ROBERTS HALL ATRIUM |
| 11:30 am - 1:45 pm |
Bus Ride to Bedford Springs & Lunch -- FREW STREET |
| 2:00 pm - 3:30 pm |
Session I: Energy & Efficiency -- COLONNADE BALLROOM
Vijay Vasudevan - FAWN: A Fast Array of Wimpy Nodes
Elie Krevat - Efficient Data-Intensive Computing |
| 3:30 pm - 3:45 pm |
Break -- CONSTITUTION HALL |
| 3:45 pm - 6:00 pm |
Session II: Data Distributions and Usage -- COLONNADE BALLROOM
Soila Kavulya - An Analysis of Traces from a Production MapReduce Cluster
Wittawat Tantisiriroj - DiskReduce: Making Room for More Data on DISCs
Jim Cipar - Power Proportionality in HDFS |
| 6:00 pm - 7:30 pm |
Dinner -- EISENHOWER BALLROOM |
| 7:30 pm - 8:30 pm |
Session III: Short Work-In-Progress Talks -- COLONNADE BALLROOM
- Ippokratis Pandis: Shore-MT: A Scalable Storage Manager for the Multicore Era
- Julio López: Data-Intensive eScience at CMU
- Bin Fu: Astronomy Application of Map-Reduce:
A Distributed Friends-of-Friends Algorithm
- Aditya Prakash: BGP-lens: Patterns and Anomalies in Internet Routing Updates |
| 8:30 pm - 10:30 pm |
Reception/Poster Session I -- COLONNADE BALLROOM |
Tuesday, November 10: Bedford Springs Resort
| 8:15 am - 9:00 am |
Continental Breakfast -- CONSTITUTION HALL |
| 9:00 am - 10:30 am |
Session VI: Toward QoS and Access Control -- COLONNADE BALLROOM
Matthew Wachs - Performance Insulation: A Foundation for Storage QoS
Michelle Mazurek - Access Control at Home: Attitudes, Needs, Practices |
| 10:30 am - 10:45 am |
Break -- CONSTITUTION HALL |
| 10:45 am - 12:15 pm |
Session V: What’s Happening to My Storage Performance?
-- COLONNADE BALLROOM
Mike Kasick - Black-Box Problem Diagnosis in Parallel File Systems
Raja Sambasivan -
Diagnosing Performance Problems by Comparing System Behaviours |
| 12:15 pm - 1:30 pm |
Lunch -- EISENHOWER BALLROOM |
| 1:30 pm - 3:45 pm |
Socializing and Chat-filled Walk |
| 3:45 pm - 6:00 pm |
Session VI: Scaling Effectively -- COLONNADE BALLROOM
Milo Polte - PLFS: The Parallel Log-Structured File System
Shafeeq Sinnamohideen - Scaling Metadata in Ursa Minor
Ippokratis Pandis - Data-Oriented Transaction Execution |
| 6:00 pm - 7:30 pm |
Dinner -- EISENHOWER BALLROOM |
| 7:30 pm - 8:30 pm |
Session VII: Short Work-In-Progress Talks -- COLONNADE BALLROOM
- Lawrence Tan: A Flash-based Filesystem for Transient Data
- Luca Parolini: Thermal-Computational Control for Data Center Energy Efficiency
- Sarun Savetsila:
Scalable Distributed Table Storage System Experiments on OpenCloud
- Lin Xiao: Reliability Modeling for Large Scale Declustered Storage |
| 8:30 pm - 10:00 pm |
Reception/Poster Session II -- COLONNADE BALLROOM |
Wednesday, November 11: Bedford Springs Resort
| 8:45 am - 9:30 am |
Continental Breakfast -- CONSTITUTION HALL |
| 9:30 am - 11:00 am |
Session VIII: What Happened? -- COLONNADE BALLROOM
Tudor Dumitraş - Dependable, Online Upgrades in Enterprise Systems
Amar Phanishayee
- Solving TCP Incast (and more) with Fine-grained TCP Timeouts |
| 11:00 am - 11:15 am |
Break -- CONSTITUTION HALL |
| 11:15 am - 1:00 pm |
Lunch and Industry Feedback -- COLONNADE BALLROOM |
| 1:15 pm |
Buses to Airport and CMU (one each) |
| 3:30 pm |
Arrive at Airport |
| 3:30 pm |
Arrive at CMU |
Have a look at last year's agenda.
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2008 PDL Workshop Attendees
Hugo Patterson, Data Domain
Sazzala Reddy, Data Domain
Sorin Faibish, EMC
Patrick Eaton, EMC
Bobby Johnson, Facebook
Phillip Liu, Facebook
Don Beaver, Google
Deborah Weisser, Google
Chris Colohan, Google
Jeff Stewart, Google
Tomohiro Kawaguchi, Hitachi America
Kentaro Shimada, Hitachi Systems Dev. Lab
Arif Merchant, HP Labs
Brad Morrey, HP Labs
Alistair Veitch, HP Labs
Roger Haskin, IBM
Julian Satran, IBM Haifa Research Lab
Michael Kozuch, Intel Research Pittsburgh
Lily Mummert, Intel Research Pittsburgh
Shimin Chen, Intel Research Pittsburgh
John Bent, Los Alamos National Lab
Gary Grider, Los Alamos National Lab
James Nunez, Los Alamos National Lab
Jerry Fredin, LSI
Brian McKean, LSI
Rama Kotla, Microsoft Research
Dushyanth Narayanan, Microsoft Research Cambridge
Jeff Prem, NetApp
Rich Sanzi, NetApp
Thierry Cruanes, Oracle Corp.
Sue Lee, Oracle Corp.
Paul Nowoczynski, Pittsburgh Supercomputing Center
Erik Riedel, Seagate Technology
Alma Riska, Seagate Technology
Bob Thibadeau, Seagate Technology
Mark Carlson, SNIA (Sun Microsystems)
Craig Harmer, Symantec
Darren Shou, Symantec
Orran Krieger, VMware
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PDL Business Administrator
School of Computer Science
Carnegie Mellon University - CIC 2209
5000 Forbes Avenue
PITTSBURGH, PA 15213-3891
VOICE: (412)268-6716
FAX: (412)268-3010
Director, Parallel Data Laboratory
Electrical and Computer Engineering
Carnegie Mellon University - CIC 2208
5000 Forbes Avenue
PITTSBURGH, PA 15213-3891
VOICE: (412)268-1297
FAX: (412)268-6779
PDL Executive Director
Carnegie Mellon University - CIC 2210
5000 Forbes Avenue
PITTSBURGH, PA 15213-3891
VOICE: (412) 268-5485
FAX: (412)268-3010
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