The 3rd International Workshop of Software-Defined Data Communications and Storage (SDDCS) 2017,  in conjunction with ACM ASPLOS 2017, on April 8, 2017, in Xi'an, China.

　

Keynote Speech: Memory-Centric Architectures to Close the Gap Between Computing and Memory/Storage

Yuan Xie, University of California at Santa Barbara

Abstract: Traditional computer systems usually follow the so-called classic Von Neumann architecture, with separated processing units (such as CPUs and GPUs) to do computing and separated memory units for data storage. The increasing gap between the computing of processor and the memory has created the “memory wall” problem in which the data movement between the processing units (PUs) and the data storage is becoming the bottleneck of the entire computing system, ranging from cloud servers to end-user devices. As we enter the era of big data, many emerging data-intensive workloads become pervasive and mandate very high bandwidth and heavy data movement between the computing units and the memory/storage. This talk will discuss the design opportunities and challenges for memory-centric architecture, which is proposed to close the gap between computing and data storage, with the emerging data-intensive applications such as neural computing and graph analytics as application drivers to guide the architecture optimization.

Bio: Yuan Xie is a professor at UC Santa Barbara (UCSB). He received Ph.D. from Princeton University, and then joined IBM Microelectronics as advisory engineer. From 2003 to 2014 he was with Penn State as Assistant/Associate/Full professor. He also worked with AMD research between 2012-2013. His research interests include EDA/architecture/VLSI, and has published more than 200 papers in IEEE/ACM venues. He was elevated to IEEE Fellow for contributions in design automation and architecture for 3D ICs. He is currently the Editor-in-Chief for ACM Journal of Emerging Technologies in Computing Systems.

　

Program

8:30-8:40 Opening Remarks

8:40-10:00  Invited Technical Talks-I

Leverage Software Defined Storage Devices with Enhanced Interface

Guangyu Sun, Peking University

Cache Partitioning and Data Placement for Hybrid DRAM-NVM Memory

Dejun Jiang, ICT, CAS

10:00-10:30 Coffee Break

10:30-11:30 Paper Presentation-I

An Exploratory Study on Data Layout Configurable Shingled Recoding Hard Disk Drives

Ning Zheng (Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute), Minjie Lv (Xi'an Jiaotong University) and Tong Zhang (Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute)

SSD blkdev: A kernel level SSD Emulator for host-based FTL

Raghavendra Rao Ananta, Jian Zhou and Jun Wang (University of Central Florida)

11:30-13:30 Lunch

13:30-14:30 Keynote Speech

Memory-Centric Architectures to Close the Gap Between Computing and Memory/Storage

Yuan Xie, University of California at Santa Barbara

14:30-15:00 Invited Technical Talks-II

Software-Defined Data Center : the eight years practices in Baidu

Jian Ouyang, Baidu Inc.

15:00-15:30 Coffee Break

15:30-16:30 Paper Presentation-II

RocksFS: Reducing Log Harm on LSM-Tree based Key-Value Store

Haitao Wang, Zhanhuai Li, Xiao Zhang, Zhen Chen and Xiaonan Zhao (Northwestern Polytechnical University)

VCM: An Economic Value Cost Perspective for Hard Drive Failure Prediction

Tianming Jiang (Huazhong University of Science and Technology), Ping Huang (Temple University), Hao Xu (Baidu, Inc.), Yongfeng Ji (Baidu, Inc.), Wenjie Liu (Huazhong University of Science and Technology) and Ke Zhou (Huazhong University of Science and Technology)

　

　

Authors of accepted papers:

For one-page abstract of the accepted paper:

Single-spaced 8.5" x 11" pages, including figures, tables, and references; two-column format, using 10-point type on 12-point (single-spaced) leading; and a text block 6.5" wide x 9" deep.

For extended submissions to ACM TOS (after April 8):

All accepted papers must be presented in the workshop. The presented and selected papers need to follow the submission formats and requirements of  ACM Transactions on Storage (TOS). The submission files need to include: (1) New manuscript, (2) Summary of changes (compared with 6-page workshop submission), (3) All review comments by SDDCS workshop and (4) Original workshop submission. Please indicate that this is an extended version from SDDCS 2017 workshop submission in the cover letter to facilitate identification.

　

　

Overview

Making an infrastructure “software defined” takes cross community efforts. Just like the theme of ASPLOS that brings together the architecture, systems and programming language community, SDDCS provides a multi-disciplinary forum for system research, spanning from storage devices, software systems, network virtualization and applications, focusing on the important problem of making future systems software-defined.

The future infrastructures of the data centers and cloud computing are becoming increasingly software-defined. Although the infrastructures consist of communications and storage resources, they are generally studied separately. Hence, applications and platforms have to precisely define the virtual environment in which they wish to run. The communication performance decreases due to overlooking the properties of storage devices, and vice versa. Software-defined methodologies offer an opportunity to bridge their gap and deliver high performance.

The SDDCS workshop provides the forum for multi-disciplinary research spanning data communications, networking, storage systems and devices, as well as the applications. SDDCS aims to bring together industry and academia to jointly explore recent progresses related to the potential performance bottleneck and the gap between communications and storage in the software-defined context. We particularly encourage contributions containing highly novel ideas, new approaches, and/or groundbreaking results.

　

Topics:

Topics of interests in SDDCS include but are not limited to:

Submission Instructions

Submitted papers must be no longer than 6 single-spaced 8.5" x 11" pages, including figures, tables, and references; two-column format, using 10-point type on 12-point (single-spaced) leading; and a text block 6.5" wide x 9" deep. Author names and affiliations should appear on the title page.

The submitted papers should present original theoretical and/or experimental research in any of the areas listed above that has not been previously published, accepted for publication, or is not currently under review by another conference or journal.

　

Submission Site: The Easychair submission

SDDCS workshop has no proceedings. The abstract will be put on the website. Selected and extended papers will  be further recommended to ACM Transactions on Storage (TOS) for fast-track processing (no guarantee of acceptance).

　

Important Dates

Paper submission due: February 17, 2017  (11:59pm EDT)

Notification to authors: March 15, 2017

Final papers due: March 24, 2017

 

Workshop Organizer

　

General Co-chairs:

Yu Hua, Huazhong University of Science and Technology

Xue Liu, McGill University


Program Co-chairs:

Pin Zhou, Datos IO, Inc

Vaneet Aggarwal, Purdue University

Wei Xu, Tsinghua University

　

Publicity Co-chairs:

Jishen Zhao, University of California, Santa Cruz

Shaolei Ren, University of California, Riverside

Edith Ngai, Uppsala University


Program Committee Member:

Bharath Balasubramanian, AT&T Labs Research

Feng Chen, Louisiana State University

Darrell D. E. Long, University of California, Santa Cruz

Song Jiang, University of Texas, Arlington

Mahmut Kandemir, Pennsylvania State University

Hyojun Kim, Google

Scott Klasky, Oak Ridge National Laboratory

Tian Lan, George Washington University

Patrick P. C. Lee, The Chinese University of Hong Kong

Ao Ma, Uber

Rajesh Panta, AT&T Labs Research

Marco Paolieri, University of Southern California

Mohit Saxena, IBM Research

Alan Sussman, University of Maryland College Park

Itzhak Tamo, Tel Aviv University

Vasily Tarasov, IBM Research

Peter J. Varman, Rice University

Youjip Won, Hanyang University

Ming Zhao, Arizona State University

　

Steering Committee:

Qing Yang, University of Rhode Island

Hong Jiang, University of Texas at Arlington

Peng-Jun Wan, Illinois Institute of Technology

　

Past Workshops

SDDCS 2016 in Nara

SDDCS 2015 in Hong Kong