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CompSys 2024 (27-29 May 2024)

1: Program
2: Keynote
3: Town hall
4: Organization
5: Location
6: Submission details
7: Contact
8: Important Dates

Welcome to CompSys 2024, a Computer Science conference designed to highlight Dutch Computer Systems and Networks research, while fostering and strengthening national and international collaboration. We aim to provide a meeting space for network, computing, and computer system research and industry ideas.

The 7th edition will take place on 27-29 May 2024, in collaboration with NCCV, the Netherlands Conference on Computer Vision under the auspices of the ASCI research school.

The location for the 2024 edition of CompSys is the Ruwenberg Hotel (Ruwenbergstraat 7, 5271 AG Sint-Michielsgestel) in the Den Bosch region.

Building up on the success of the previous six editions (2023, 2022, 2021, 2019, 2018, 2017), the seventh edition of the conference will emphasize efforts on community building and providing a forum to discuss ongoing and future projects among all members of academic research groups in the Netherlands.

The conference will focus on the major research and practice themes related to computer systems. We envision a diverse program, featuring keynotes on advanced topics, strong scientific contributions, and exciting early ideas. We strive for diverse participation from all the interesting and interested parties in the Netherlands, and we especially welcome senior members of the research community, junior faculty members, PhD, master, or undergraduate students.

CompSys 2024 Best presentation awards:

First prize winner: Stijn Heldens: Kernel Launcher: C++ Library for Optimal-Performance Portable CUDA Applications.
Second prize winner: Jelle van Dijk: Systematic Performance Benchmarking of emerging HPC Processors for Hemocell.
Third prize winner: Stefan Petrescu: Log Parsing in the Era of Modern Software Systems.

Congratulations Stijn, Jelle and Stefan!

Latest news:

May 30 2024: We had a great conference, thank you all for your participation!
May 29 2024: Best presernation award winners have veen announced.
May 4 2024: the program is now online.
April 8 2024: NOTE: SUBMISSION DEADLINE EXTENDED TO FRIDAY APRIL 12, 23:59 Dutch time!
12 February 2024: You can now register for the conference. Registration deadline: May 10 2024.
12 February 2024: Call for papers is now online.

Description	Date
Abstract registration (not mandatory, but it helps us organize)	2 April 2024
Paper submission deadline (EXTENDED!)	12 April 2024, 23:59 Dutch time
Author notification	1 May 2024
Registration deadline	10 May 2024
In-person conference	27-29 May 2024

1 - Program

CompSys 2024 Best presentation awards:

First prize winner: Stijn Heldens: Kernel Launcher: C++ Library for Optimal-Performance Portable CUDA Applications.
Second prize winner: Jelle van Dijk: Systematic Performance Benchmarking of emerging HPC Processors for Hemocell.
Third prize winner: Stefan Petrescu: Log Parsing in the Era of Modern Software Systems.

Congratulations Stijn, Jelle and Stefan!

Day 1: Monday May 27	Time	Type	Activity	Presenter(s)	Author(s)
	9:45 - 10:00	Welcome and Opening Remarks	Welcome and Opening Remarks	Vasilios Andrikopoulos	The CompSys 2024 organization
	10:00 - 11:00	Keynote (chair: Vasilios Andrikopoulos)	KEYNOTE: Affordable and sustainable data- and compute-intensive radio astronomy	Roelien Attema-Van Waas and Chris Broekema (ASTRON)	Roelien Attema-Van Waas and Chris Broekema (ASTRON)
	11:00 - 11:30	Break
	11:30 - 12:30	Research Talk (Chair: Daniele Bonetta)	Columbo: A Reasoning Framework for Kubernetes' Configuration Space	Matthijs Jansen	Matthijs Jansen, Sacheendra Talluri, Krijn Doekemeijer, Nick Tehrany, Alexandru Iosup and Animesh Trivedi
		Research Talk	Log Parsing in the Era of Modern Software Systems	Stefan Petrescu	Stefan Petrescu
		Research Talk	Leveraging Hardware Prefetching by Designing Datastructures around Strided Access Patterns	Miguel Blom	Miguel Blom, Kristian Rietveld and Rob van Nieuwpoort
	12:30-13:45	Lunch break
	13:45-14:00	Award ceremony: best ASCI thesis	Award ceremony: best ASCI thesis	Alexandru Iosup	ASCI
	14:00-15:00	Research Talk (Chair: Kawsar Haghshenas)	Optimizing QoS in Wireless IoT Networks: A Cross-Layer based Experimental Study	Kamran Zia	Kamran Zia and Alessandro Chiumento
		Research Talk	Designing Energy-Efficient Cell-Free Wireless Networks: A Stochastic Geometry Based Approach	Syllas Magalhaes	Syllas Magalhaes, Suzan Bayhan and Geert Heijenk
		Research Talk	Data On the Go: Seamless Data Routing for Intermittently-Powered Battery-Free Sensing	Gaosheng Liu	Gaosheng Liu and Lin Wang
	15:00-15:30	Break
	15:30-16:30	Research Talk (Chair: Ben van Werkhoven)	Kernel Launcher: C++ Library for Optimal-Performance Portable CUDA Applications	Stijn Heldens	Stijn Heldens and Ben van Werkhoven
		Research Talk	Auto-tuning OpenACC Applications with Kernel Tuner	Alessio Sclocco	Alessio Sclocco and Ben van Werkhoven
		Research Talk	Efficient Search Space Construction for Auto-Tuning	Floris-Jan Willemsen	Floris-Jan Willemsen and Ben van Werkhoven
	16:30 - 17:00	Break
	17:00-18:00	Research Talk (Chair: Alessio Sclocco)	AI Workloads on GPU, Profile and Analysis	Mahmoud Alasmar	Mahmoud Alasmar and Kawsar Haghshenas
		Research Talk	Benchmarking Dynamic Graph Processing Systems: a Case Study for BLADYG	Shaoshuai Du	Shaoshuai Du, Ana-Lucia Varbanescu and Andy D Pimentel
		Research Talk	Systematic Performance Benchmarking of emerging HPC Processors for Hemocell	Jelle van Dijk	Jelle van Dijk, Gábor Závodszky and Ana Lucia Varbanescu
	18:00-18:30	Time to check in / refresh	free time
	18:30	Dinner	Dinner
Day 2: Tuesday May 28	Time	Type	Activity	Presenter(s)	Author(s)
	09:30-10:30	Keynote (chair: Suzan Bayhan)	KEYNOTE: Interactive and Connected Battery-Free Systems	Przemysław Pawełczak (TU Delft)	Przemysław Pawełczak (TU Delft)
	10:30 - 11:00	Break
	11:00-12:30	Research Talk (Chair: Marcela Tuler de Oliveira)	Asynchronous Multi-Server Federated Learning for Geo-Distributed Clients	Yuncong Zuo	Yuncong Zuo, Bart Cox, Jérémie Decouchant and Lydia Chen
		Research Talk	Hybrid Scheduling for Serverless Functions	Yuxuan Zhao	Yuxuan Zhao, Weikang Weng and Alexandru Uta
		Research Talk	PriCE: Privacy-Preserving and Cost-Effective Scheduling for Parallelizing the Large Medical Image Processing Workflow over Hybrid Clouds	Yuandou Wang	Yuandou Wang, Neel Kanwal, Kjersti Engan, Chunming Rong, Paola Grosso and Zhiming Zhao
		Research Talk	ExDe: Design Space Exploration of Scheduler Architectures and Mechanisms for Serverless Data-processing	Sacheendra Talluri	Sacheendra Talluri, Nikolas Herbst, Cristina Abad, Tiziano De Matteis and Alexandru Iosup
	12:30 - 14:00	Lunch
	14:00 -15:00	JOINT Keynote (chair: Rob van Nieuwpoort)	JOINT KEYNOTE WITH NCCV: Sustainable Deep Learning: A Systems Perspective	Lin Wang (Paderborn University)	Lin Wang (Paderborn University)
	15:00 - 15:30	Break
	15:30-16:30	Research Talk (Chair: Dolly Sapra)	MoreFixes: A Large-Scale Dataset of CVE Fix Commits Mined through Enhanced Repository Discovery	Jafar Akhoundali	Jafar Akhoundali, Sajad Rahim Nouri, Kristian Rietveld and Olga Gadyatskaya
		Research Talk	SpecProbeGuard: A Reactive Defense Against Speculative Probing Attacks in the Linux Kernel	Dave Quakkelaar	Dave Quakkelaar
		Research Talk	Explanation of Clustering Methods for Distinguishing Android Malware Family	Rui Li	Rui Li, Olga Gadyatskaya and Feiyang Sun
	16:30 - 17:00	Break
	17:00-18:00	Research Talk (Chair: Fernando Kuipers)	Boosting the Performance of Lightweight HAR Models with Attention and Knowledge Distillation	Özlem Durmaz	Özlem Durmaz and Sümeyye Ağaç
		Research Talk	Variational Inference and Mixed-Precision: Approximating Vision Transformers for the Edge	Dewant Katare	Dewant Katare, Sam Leroux, Marijn Janssen and Aaron Yi Ding
		Research Talk	Towards Complete Quantum Network Stacks, A Survey	Ziyan Zhang	Ziyan Zhang, Chrysa Papagianni, Florian Speelman and Paola Grosso
	18:00 - 18:30	Town hall & community session
	18:30 - 20:30	Dinner (joint with NCCV)
	20:30	Pubquiz (joint with NCCV)
Day 3: Wednesday May 29	Time	Type	Activity	Presenter(s)	Author(s)
	10:00	Research Talk (Chair: Vasilios Andrikopoulos)	FootPrinter: Quantifying Data Center Carbon Footprint	Dante Niewenhuis	Dante Niewenhuis, Sacheendra Talluri, Alexandru Iosup and Tiziano De Matteis
		Research Talk	Towards a Workload Trace Archive for Metaverse Systems	Jesse Donkervliet	Radu Apsan, Damla Ural, Paul Daniëlse, Vlad-Andrei Cursaru, Eames Trinh, Jesse Donkervliet and Alexandru Iosup
		Research Talk	Enabling Operational Data Analytics for Datacenters through Ontologies, Monitoring, and Simulation-based Prediction	Shekhar Suman	Shekhar Suman, Xiaoyu Chu, Dante Niewenhuis, Sacheendra Talluri, Tiziano De Matteis and Alexandru Iosup
	11:00 - 11:30	Break
	11:30 - 12:30	Research Talk (Chair: Kuan-Hsun Chen)	Reviving Storage Systems Education in the 21 st Century — An experience report	Animesh Trivedi	Animesh Trivedi, Matthijs Jansen, Krijn Doekemeijer, Sacheendra Talluri and Nick Tehrany
		Research Talk	BFQ, Multiqueue-Deadline, or Kyber? Performance Characterization of Linux Storage Schedulers in the NVMe Era	Zebin Ren	Zebin Ren, Krijn Doekemeijer, Nick Tehrany and Animesh Trivedi
		Research Talk	ZWAL: Rethinking Write-ahead Logs for ZNS SSDs with Zone Appends	Krijn Doekemeijer	Krijn Doekemeijer, Zebin Ren, Nick Tehrany and Animesh Trivedi
	12:30 - 12.45	Closing & Best Presentation Award	Closing & Best Presentation Award	Suzan Bayhan & Rob van Nieuwpoort	The CompSys 2024 organizers
	12.45 - 14.00	Lunch

2 - Keynote

We have the pleasure of welcoming our keynote speakers at CompSys'24.

Monday 27 May, 10:00
Title: Affordable and sustainable data- and compute-intensive radio astronomy
By Roelien Attema-Van Waas and Chris Broekema, ASTRON
Abstract: Radio astronomy is a relatively new area of science that relies heavily on the abundant availability of data- and compute-capacity. One could even argue that the advent of affordable compute power, in the form of general purpose mini-computers in the 1970s, made the construction of aperture synthesis arrays like the one in Westerbork possible. More recently, in the early 2000s, ASTRON designed and built the LOFAR telescope to take advantage of the steady increase of available compute power. This is one of the very first 'software telescopes', where a massive amount of complexity is offloaded from the hardware into the software (with all the appropriate growing pains we are only now starting to really understand). This predictable and inevitable increase in compute capability can no longer be relied upon. Worse, we are now faced with instruments that can produce far more data than we can affordably process. For future telescopes, like the Square Kilometre Array and even more ambitious later telescopes we could easily be overwhelmed by the virtual deluge of data being foisted on the scientist. I this talk we will briefly introduce radioastronomy and the specific R&D challenges and we will go into some detail on the anatomy of a modern large-scale distributed radio telescope, what processing needs to be done with the collected data, and how we are preparing to process the fire-hose of data to be collected by modern instruments. New and emerging technologies play a central role in this strategy.
Short bio Roelien Attema – Head of R&D at ASTRON: Inspired by leading-edge innovation and creating impact in society with new insights and technology she is working the field of applied science for 25 years. Starting at KPN Research, she worked at TNO for almost 20 years in different roles from expert, account manager, project manager to business consultant. Her interest in organisations and people led her to roles in innovation management. She is part of the ASTRON MT and as Head of the R&D department - a group of around 65 professionals covering the full signal processing chain - responsible for all technological innovation within ASTRON. As member of the Board of the Innovation Cluster Drachten she is committed to strengthen the collaboration between industry and academic partners in the North of the Netherlands. Short bio Chris Broekema: Chris Broekema is a senior research staff member at the Netherlands Institute for Radio Astronomy since 2003. Over the years he has focused most of his work on compute- and data transport hardware design for radio astronomy. He has designed, built, procured, operated and worked on high-performance computing systems for the LOFAR telescope in the Netherlands, including some of the fastest supercomputers in the world at the time, since 2004. More recently his focus shifted to the computational and data-transport challenges in the Square Kilometre Array (SKA), where he was responsible for the hardware platform design of the SKA Science Data Processor (SDP). To support this work he has done applied research into compute- and data-transport systems. His focus is on the various system aspects that impact the sustainability, suitability and usability of current and emerging compute- and data-transport systems. He has published extensively and defended his PhD thesis on the subject in 2020. He served in various panels and review committees, most notably for the ASKAP science data processor and the ARTS system, and has presented his work numerous times, both nationally and internationally.

Tuesday 28 May, 9:30
Title: Interactive and Connected Battery-Free Systems
By Przemysław Pawełczak, Associate Professor Embedded Systems Group, TU Delft
Abstract: In this talk, I will present some advancements in designing interactive and wirelessly connected ultra-low power, battery-free systems. I will discuss how low-density energy buffers (such as capacitors) and energy harvesting sources - both forming a sustainable alternative to batteries - require a rethink of communication, computation, and interaction paradigms. We will explore these new design paradigms by examining case studies in handheld gaming, electronic prototyping, and low-power wireless networking.
Short bio: Przemysław Pawełczak is an associate professor within the Embedded and Networked Systems Group of TU Delft leading Sustainable Systems Lab. His research vision is to make Internet of Things free from batteries, less polluting and sustainable. With his students Przemysław Pawełczak performs research that is experiment- and systems-oriented (where system is a creation of new hardware and software).

Tuesday 28 May, 14:00
Title: Sustainable Deep Learning: A Systems Perspective
Joint Keynote with NCCV, by Professor Lin Wang, Paderborn University
Abstract: Deep learning (DL) has undeniably revolutionized many fields, but its rapid expansion has put a significant strain on our computing infrastructure. As we celebrate breakthroughs in areas such as computer vision with unprecedentedly large DL models, we must face a stark reality: Our current trajectory is not sustainable. In this talk, I will discuss some of the systems challenges in serving large DL models. In doing so, I will emphasize the critical need for collaboration between deep learning and systems researchers in order to forge a sustainable path forward.
Short bio: Lin Wang is currently a full professor and head of the Computer Networks group at Paderborn University. He received his Ph.D. in Computer Science from the Institute of Computing Technology, Chinese Academy of Sciences in 2015. Before joining Paderborn University, he was a tenured Assistant Professor at Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam and held positions at TU Darmstadt, SnT Luxembourg, and IMDEA Networks Institute. His research focuses on networked systems at the edge and in the cloud, with the goal of achieving efficiency and sustainability. His work has received several awards, including a Google Research Scholar Award, an Outstanding Paper Award from RTSS 2022, Best Paper Awards from IPCCC 2023 and HotPNS 2016, and an Athene Young Investigator Award from TU Darmstadt.

3 - Town hall

This year, we will have a town hall discussion with all participants, on Tuesday at 18.00. The topic will be announced soon.

4 - Organization

Organization

Name	University/Organization
Vasilios Andrikopoulos (co-chair)	University of Groningen
Suzan Bayhan (co-chair)	University of Twente
Rob van Nieuwpoort (co-chair)	Leiden University
Paula Diks	ASCI Office, TU Delft

Steering committee

Name	University/Organization
Paola Grosso	University of Amsterdam
Fernando A. Kuipers	TU Delft
Ana Lucia Varbanescu	University of Twente
Alexandru Iosup	Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam

5 - Location

Registration:

You can now register for the conference. Registration deadline: May 10 2024.

Location:

The location for the 2024 edition of CompSys is the Ruwenberg Hotel in the Den Bosch region, the Netherlands.

The Ruwenberg Hotel

Ruwenbergstraat 7

5271 AG Sint-Michielsgestel

The Netherlands

https://ruwenberg.nl/en/

The hotel is situated in a 14th-century country estate in Sint-Michielsgestel with a long history. The history of castle ‘De Ruwenberg’ goes back to the 14th century and offers peaceful accommodation for those people searching for knowledge since many ages. The exact date of its construction is unknown, but on the clock tower the year 1357 is indicated as a date of origin. In 1884 the castle belonged to the friars of Tilburg and in that year the tower was threatened with destruction due to a heavy storm. Thanks to the good craftsmanship the roof timbers of a church, tower or castle were inscribed with the monogram and matching year. The following dates could be found during the repair: built in 1357 and acquired in 1851.

Please note that your overnight stays in this hotel are included in the registration fee.

6 - Submission details

Submission Guidelines

All contributions will be reviewed by the Program Committee. Accepted contributions will appear in the final program either as a short talk or a full presentation, depending on the reviews. All presentations will be made available in digital format, unless otherwise instructed by the authors. For submission, the PDF format is mandatory.

To foster the broadest possible engagement and exchanging of ideas, CompSys 2024 does not claim copyright, making it possible for authors of accepted contributions to present work that has already been published or is in the process of being published elsewhere.

Important dates

Description	Date
Abstract registration (not mandatory, but it helps us organize)	2 April 2024
Paper submission deadline	EXTENDED: 12 April 2024, 23:59 Dutch time
Author notification	1 May 2024
Registration deadline	16 May 2024
In-person conference	27-29 May 2024

Submission types

CompSys 2024 welcomes three types of contributions: research papers, work-in-progress papers/early ideas, and negative/failed research results.

Long papers

Research papers on your best research results from the past year(s). This includes papers already submitted to and/or accepted at (inter)national conferences or workshops (please indicate the original venue in the submission form). Long papers (not exceeding 12 pages in double-column or 15 pages in LNCS format) can be submitted using any of the commonly used templates (e.g., ACM, IEEE, LNCS).

Short papers: Work-in-progress and early ideas

Since CompSys is a forum that encourages discussions about early and exciting ideas, we specifically welcome extended abstracts highlighting early ideas and work-in-progress papers. Such submissions are especially suitable for graduate and undergraduate students working towards finalizing their thesis or PhD students who have recently started or would like to share one of their preliminary results with the community. In particular, we encourage contributions in the form of short talks to share an early and not yet explored idea with the community to stimulate discussions and collect feedback. These talks might be particularly interesting for early-stage researchers. Submissions of early ideas or work-in-progress papers require a short paper of at most 2 pages (not including references) in IEEE double-column format or 4 pages (not including references) in LNCS single-column format. The paper should mention the research question being addressed, outline the novelty and/or originality of the idea, approach, or (initial) results, and contain a summary of preliminary results.

Negative research results

Like last year, we also solicit contributions sharing negative results, wrong methodologies, and/or invalidated hypothesis to share the lessons learned in the community and also once again remind to ourselves that a regular part of performing research is also about trying many ideas that may not lead to expected results. Submissions of negative research results papers require a short paper of at most 2 pages (not including references) in IEEE double-column format or 4 pages (not including references) in LNCS single-column format.

Submission Portal

All contributions are to be submitted through easychair.

7 - Contact

International Conference on Computing Systems
Paula Diks (ASCI OFFICE)
Van Mourik Broekmanweg 6
2628 XE Delft
Netherlands

E-mail: asci-office@tudelft.nl

8 - Important Dates

Description	Date
Abstract registration (not mandatory, but it helps us organize)	2 April 2024
Paper submission deadline	EXTENDED: 12 April 2024, 23:59 Dutch time
Author notification	1 May 2024
Registration deadline	10 May 2024
In-person conference	27-29 May 2024