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Paper Ideas: Apr 02 2015

Paper Ideas: Apr 02 2015

Apr 03, 2015

Here's a list of the papers proposed by the members of RAMCloud group, and the number of votes each paper received in () preceding the paper name. The voting was done separately for each person's list. The paper(s) each person will read first is in bold. In some cases, there is an additional italicized paper, to be read next.

  • By Henry:

    • CFI - Control Flow Integrity

    • (unanimous) dsync - rapid sync of large blocks

  • By Satoshi:

    • (unanimous) Hybrid transactional memory for Haswell - PACT

    • CoHMM - Los Alamos

  • By Seo Jin:

    • Linearizability by Herlihy/Wing

    • Some paper from Comp Bio for apps

    • RPC by Birrell/Nelson

  • By Collin:

    • Project Adam - Deep Learning app

    • (6) Version Vectors from 1983

    • (2) Time, clocks, ... from 1978

    • (2) Chubby

    • (4) Tango distributed objects / CORFU

  • By Stephen:

    • (unanimous) Arrakis

    • Buffer overflows in the last decade

    • Expert crowdsourcing

  • By Ankita:

    • FaRM

    • (2) RAMP

    • (2) Tao

    • HyperDex

    • (1) SILT

    • Espresso

    • (7) Cassandra

    • (1) H-Store

    • (1) Sinfonia

    • (5) Megastore

    • (3) F1

  • By Behnam:

    • (1) mTCP

    • (1) Network stack specialization for performance

    • (4) DaRPC

    • (1) Security in dist system by Lampson from 1992

    • (3) Mesos

    • (1) Omega

    • (4) Debugging distributed systems - D3S

  • By John:

    • (3) Anti-caching by Stonebraker

    • (5) Soft NIC

  • By Jonathan:

    • (1) Radically refactoring the web

    • (5) RDDs

    • Unioning of buffer cache and journaling layers

 

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