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Compsys 2019
Welcome to CompSys 2019, a Computer Science conference designed to showcase the success stories of Dutch Computer Systems research, while fostering and strengthening national and international collaboration.
At CompSys, we aim to provide a meeting space for research and industry ideas in the area of computing and computer science. Building up on the success of the previous two years, the third edition of the conference will emphasize efforts on community building and providing a forum to discuss ongoing projects among all members of academic research groups in the Netherlands.
The conference lasts two and a half days and focuses on the major research and practice themes related to computer systems. We envision a diverse program, featuring keynotes on advanced topics, strong scientific contributions, panel discussions, and exciting new ideas. We strive for a diverse participation from all the interesting and interested parties in the Netherlands, and we welcome senior members of the research community, junior faculty members, Ph.D., and master students.
3 - Submission details
CompSys-2019 invites you to submit two types of contributions: research papers and work-in-progress papers.
Long papers
Research papers on your best research results from the past year(s). This includes papers already submitted to and/or accepted at international conferences or workshops (please indicate the original venue on 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) so that no reformatting should be needed in most cases.
Short papers: New ideas or work-in-progress
Since CompSys is a forum that encourages discussions about new and exciting ideas, we specifically welcome extended abstracts and work-in-progress papers. Such submissions are especially suitable for MSc students working towards finalizing their theses or PhD students who have recently started.
Submissions of new ideas or work-in-progress papers requires an short paper of at most 2 pages (not including references) in ACM or IEEE double-column format. The paper should mention the research question being addressed, outline the novelty and/or originality of the idea, approach, or results, and contain a summary of preliminary results.
No copyright
To foster the broadest possible engagement and exchange ideas, CompSys-2019 does not claim copyright, making it possible for you to present work that has already been published or is in the process of publishing elsewhere.
For submission, the PDF format is mandatory.
All contributions will be reviewed by the Program Committee, which assigns an accepted contribution to either a short talk or a full presentation, depending on the advice of the reviewers.
All presentations will be made available in digital format, unless otherwise instructed by the authors.
Outstanding contributions
The best three contributors (authors of a paper, idea, and/or presentation) at CompSys 2019 will be presented with an “Outstanding contribution” award in the final session of the conference.
4 - Program
| Monday |
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Paper/activity |
Presenter(s) |
Author(s) |
| 11:00 |
Coffee |
Arrival and welcome
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The organizers
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| 11:30 |
Keynote |
Shared-Memory Heterogeneous Computing
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Peter Hofstee
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| 12:30 |
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Lunch
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| 13:30 |
FT |
SoK: Off The Chain Transactions
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Lewis Gudgeon, Pedro Moreno-Sanchez, Stefanie Roos, Patrick McCorry and Arthur Gervais
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| 14:00 |
FT |
Modeling of collaboration archetypes in digital market places
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Lu Zhang, Reginald Cushing, Cees De Laat and Paola Grosso
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| 14:30 |
ST |
Towards High Performance Big Data Processing
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Sobhan Omranian Khorasani, Jan S. Rellermeyer, and Dick Epema
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| 14:45 |
ST |
The Landscape of Exascale Research - Data-Driven Literature Analysis
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Stijn Heldens, Pieter Hijma, Ben van Werkhoven, Jason Maassen, A.S.Z. Belloum, and Rob V. van Nieuwpoort
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| 15:00 |
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Coffee break
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| 15:30 |
FT |
Implementing Stencil Problems in Chapel: An Experience Report
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Per Fuchs, Pieter Hijma and Clemens Grelck
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| 16:00 |
Panel |
Career in Industry
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Joris Cramwinckel (Ortec Finance) and Animesh Trivedi (until recently in IBM Research Zurich)
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| 18:30 |
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Dinner @ Hotel restaurant
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| Tuesday |
|
Paper/activity |
Presenter(s) |
Author(s) |
| 09:30 |
|
Welcome Day 2
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The organizers
|
| 09:40 |
Short Introductions |
New Faces in ASCI
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various
|
| 10:00 |
FT |
Methodological Principles for Reproducible Performance Evaluation in Cloud Computing
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Alessandro Papadopoulos, Laurens Versluis, André Bauer, Nikolas Herbst, Jóakim von Kistowski, Ahmed Ali-Eldin, Cristina Abad, José Amaral, Petr Tůma and Alexandru Iosup
|
| 10:30 |
FT |
Operating Permissioned Blockchain in Clouds: A Performance Study of Hyperledger Sawtooth
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Zeshun Shi, Huan Zhou, Yang Hu, Jayachander Surbiryala, Cees de Laat and Zhiming Zhao
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| 11:00 |
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Coffee break
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| 11:30 |
FT |
Parallel graph community detection algorithms for the KM3NeT project
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Konrad Karas, Stijn Heldens and Ben van Werkhoven
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| 12:00 |
FT |
Graphless: Toward Serverless Graph Processing
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Lucian Toader, Alexandru Uta, Ahmed Musaafir and Alexandru Iosup
|
| 12:30 |
|
Lunch
|
|
|
| 13:30 |
Keynote |
Multi-scale astronomical simulations of non-linear phenomena
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Simon Portegies Zwart
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| 14:30 |
ST |
Graph Processing in OpenCL: Performance vs. Portability
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Rick Watertor
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| 14:45 |
ST |
High-throughput conversion of Apache Parquet files to Apache Arrow in-memory format using FPGA's
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Lars van Leeuwen, Johan Peltenburg, Jian Fang, Zaid Al-Ars, and Peter Hofstee
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| 15:00 |
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Coffee break
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| 15:30 |
FT |
Albis: High-Performance File Format for Big Data Systems
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Animesh Trivedi, Patrick Stuedi, Jonas Pfefferle, Adrian Schuepbach and Bernard Metzler
|
| 16:00 |
Presentation |
NWO - Update on current and upcoming funding opportunities.
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Yvette Tuin
|
| 18:30 |
|
Dinner
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| 20:00 |
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Drinks and Social event
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| Wednesday |
|
Paper/activity |
Presenter(s) |
Author(s) |
| 09:30 |
Keynote |
Riding on the Edge: The Fun, Risks, and Lessons
|
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Aaron Ding
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| 10:30 |
ST |
Using a permissioned blockchain for securing data transactions on the data market
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Rens van der Veldt and Yuri Demchenko
|
| 10:45 |
ST |
Performance Engineering in the ATLAS Particle Physics Experiment
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Stephen Nicholas Swatman
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| 11:00 |
|
Coffee break
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| 11:30 |
FT |
XChange: A Decentralized, Blockchain-based Mechanism for Generic Trade at Scale
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Martijn de Vos and Johan Pouwelse
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| 12:00 |
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Closing
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The organizers
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| 12:30 |
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Lunch
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5 - Panel
Joris Cramwinckel from Ortec Finance and Animesh Trivedi (recently joined the VU after a successfull career in IBM Research Zurich) talk about career opportunities and tradeoffs in industry.
6 - Keynote
We have the pleasure of welcoming three keynote speakers at CompSys'19.
| Monday June 3rd, 11:30-12:30 |
| Shared-Memory Heterogeneous Computing |
| By Dr. Peter Hofstee |
| IBM Research, Austin, TX |
| Abstract Shared-memory heterogeneous computing is gaining ground, but poses challenges to the programming community that are at least as large as those that resulted from the single- to multi-core transition. This talk covers some of the architectural foundations, drawing some lessons from the Cell Broadband Engine ( and the Roadrunner supercomputer ) more than a decade ago, then looks at how this approach is working out in recent systems with shared memory combinations of CPUs and GPUs and/or FPGAs, and finally examines how it is likely to evolve. |
| Short bio Dr. Peter Hofstee is best known for his contributions to Heterogeneous computing as the chief architect of the Synergistic Processor Elements in the Cell Broadband Engine processor used in the Sony PlayStation 3, and the first supercomputer to reach sustained Petaflop operation. After returning to IBM research in 2011 he has focused on optimizing the system roadmap for big data, analytics, and cloud, including the use of accelerated compute. His early research work on coherently attached reconfigurable acceleration on POWER7 paved the way for the new coherent attach processor interface on POWER8. Peter Hofstee is an IBM Master Inventor with more than 100 issued patents and a member of the IBM Academy of Technology. |
| Tuesday June 4th, 13:30-14:30 |
|
| By Prof. Simon Portegies Zwart |
| Observatory, Leiden University |
| Abstract Energy and momentum are conserved in Newton's laws of gravitation.
Numerical integration of the equations of motion should comply to
these requirements in order to guarantee the correctness of a
solution, but this turns out to be insufficient. The steady growth of
numerical errors and the exponential divergence, renders numerical
solutions over more than a dynamical time-scale meaningless. Even
time reversibility is not a guarantee for finding the definitive
solution to the numerical few-body problem. As a consequence,
numerical N-body simulations produce questionable results. Using
brute force integrations to arbitrary numerical precision I will
demonstrate empirically that the statistics of an ensemble of resonant
3-body interactions is independent of the precision of the numerical
integration, and conclude that, although individual solutions using
common integration methods are unreliable, an ensemble of approximate
3-body solutions accurately represent the ensemble of true solutions. |
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Short bio Since 2009 Simon Portegies Zwart leads an interdisciplinary research team on Computational Astrophysics at the Sterrewacht Leiden (CAstLe). This team is currently composedof 1 software engineer, 2 postdoctoralresearchers, 6 PhD students and 4 MSc students. The aim of this team is to study the universe by means ofsimulation. The specific areas of research in astrophysics include the evolution of exotic planetary systems,the evolution of binary (and higher order multiple) stars, and the dynamical evolution of dense stellar systemssuch as globular clusters and galactic nuclei. From a computational point of view the research group aimsat the development of simulation environments for solving the equations for gravitational dynamics, stellarstructure and evolution, hydrodynamics and radiative transfer. Calculations are performed on computers builtby the research group and equipped with GRAPE hardware or graphical processing units (GPU) but also usingsupercomputers and grids. |
| Wednesday June 5th, 9:30-10:30 |
| Riding on the Edge: The Fun, Risks, and Lessons |
| By Dr. Aaron Ding |
| ESS Group, TU Delft |
| Abstract This talk will introduce three initiatives on edge computing, namely FLAMeS, LocalVLC, and FADES, intended for edge analytics, communication and offloading. Besides sharing first-hand experience on system development and insights, the talk will reveal several pitfalls and lessons learned through live cases. The goal is twofold: 1) to disclose blind spots and interesting directions in the edge domain that deserve further investigations, and 2) to share observations on doing research in a “buzzword” domain, especially what may hinder us from transferring the (mostly fun) system work into solid scientific outcome.TBD |
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Short bioDr. Aaron Ding is a Tenure-Track Assistant Professor at the Department of Engineering Systems and Services in TU Delft. He has over 12 years of R&D experience across EU, UK and USA. Prior to joining TU Delft, he has worked at TU Munich in Germany, at Columbia University in USA, at University of Cambridge in UK, and at University of Helsinki in Finland. He obtained his MSc and PhD both with distinction from the Department of Computer Science (Birthplace of Linux) at University of Helsinki. His PhD was supervised by Prof. Sasu Tarkoma and Prof. Jon Crowcroft at University of Cambridge. Aaron's research focuses on edge computing, IoT architecture and distributed networking services. He is a two-time recipient of Nokia Foundation Scholarships, and awarded the Best Paper of ACM EdgeSys, ACM SIGCOMM Best of CCR and PhD fellowships from the Academy of Finland and University of Helsinki. Aaron is the founder of ACM EdgeSys and co-chaired IEEE HotPOST. He is the co-founder of FCG series, a joint initiative to promote active collaborations between top European and Asian research institutes, including Cambridge, Delft, Helsinki, Leuven, London, Munich, Oslo, Stockholm, MPI, EPFL, IMDEA, HKUST, Peking, Tsinghua, and Fudan.
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8 - Location
The conference will be held at the Kaap Doorn Conferentiecentrum in Doorn, The Netherlands.
This location is located in the heart of the National Park Utrecht Hill Ridge, in its own extensive grounds, perfect for an enjoyable walk. Cross the road next to the hotel to wander around the miles of beautiful woodlands of the hill ridge.
Please note that your overnight stays in this hotel, are included in the registration fee.
Arrival by public transport:
There is a bus stop Doorn, Kaap Doorn right in front of the hotel. The bus line 50 has stops at the train station Driebergen-Zeist and Veenendaal-De Klomp.
Find your connection here.
Arrival by car:Use the address Leersumsestraatweg 4 en 6, 3941 KA Doorn in your GPS.
9 - Contact
International Conference on Computing Systems
Paula Diks (ASCI OFFICE)
Van Mourik Broekmanweg 6
2628 XE Delft
Netherlands
