Microsoft Research @ NSDI ’19

Invited Speakers

Tuesday, February 26

1:30 PM–3:10 PM | Modern Network Hardware

FreeFlow: Software-based Virtual RDMA Networking for Containerized Clouds (opens in new tab)
Daehyeok Kim, Tianlong Yu, Hongqiang Harry Liu, Yibo Zhu, Jitu Padhye (opens in new tab), Shachar Raindel, Chuanxiong Guo, Vyas Sekar, Srinivasan Seshan

Direct Universal Access: Making Data Center Resources Available to FPGA (opens in new tab)
Ran Shu (opens in new tab), Peng Cheng (opens in new tab), Guo Chen, Zhiyuan Guo, Lei Qu, Yongqiang Xiong (opens in new tab), Derek Chiou, Thomas Moscibroda (opens in new tab)

3:40 PM–4:55 PM | Analytics

Hydra: a federated resource manager for data-center scale analytics (opens in new tab)
Carlo Curino (opens in new tab), Subru Krishnan, Konstantinos Karanasos (opens in new tab), Sriram Rao, Giovanni M. Fumarola, Botong Huang, Kishore Chaliparambil, Arun Suresh, Young Chen, Solom Heddaya, Roni Burd, Sarvesh Sakalanaga, Chris Douglas, Bill Ramsey, Raghu Ramakrishnan

dShark: A General, Easy to Program and Scalable Framework for Analyzing In-network Packet Traces (opens in new tab)
Da Yu, Yibo Zhu, Behnaz Arzani (opens in new tab), Rodrigo Fonseca, Tianrong Zhang, Karl Deng, Lihua Yuan

5:10 PM–6:25 PM | Data Center Network Architecture

Shoal: A Network Architecture for Disaggregated Racks (opens in new tab)
Vishal Shrivastav, Asaf Valadarsky, Hitesh Ballani (opens in new tab), Paolo Costa (opens in new tab), Ki Suh Lee, Han Wang, Rachit Agarwal, Hakim Weatherspoon

Wednesday, February 27

3:40 PM–4:55 PM | Improving Machine Learning

BLAS-on-flash: An Efficient Alternative for Large Scale ML Training and Inference? (opens in new tab)
Suhas Jayaram Subramanya, Harsha Vardhan Simhadri (opens in new tab), Srajan Garg, Anil Kag, Venkatesh Balasubramanian

Tiresias: A GPU Cluster Manager for Distributed Deep Learning (opens in new tab)
Juncheng Gu, Mosharaf Chowdhury, Kang G. Shin, Yibo Zhu, Myeongjae Jeon, Junjie Qian, Hongqiang Liu, Chuanxiong Guo

Thursday, February 28

8:30 AM–10:10 AM | Network Characterization

NetBouncer: Active Device and Link Failure Localization in Data Center Networks (opens in new tab)
Cheng Tan, Ze Jin, Chuanxiong Guo, Tianrong Zhang, Haitao Wu, Karl Deng, Dongming Bi, Dong Xiang