Hot OS'15 summary

My OS Ought to Know Me Better: In-app Behavioural Analytics as an OS Service

 

Earlence Fernandes, University of Michigan; Oriana Riva and Suman Nath, Microsoft Research

Amber: Decoupling User Data from Web Applications

 

Tej Chajed, Jon Gjengset, Jelle van den Hooff, M. Frans Kaashoek, Massachusetts Institute of Technology; James Mickens, Microsoft Research; Robert Morris and Nickolai Zeldovich, Massachusetts Institute of Technology

The Activity Platform

 

Helen J. Wang, Alexander Moshchuk, Michael Gamon, Mona Haraty, Shamsi Iqbal, Eli T. Brown, Ashish Kapoor, Chris Meek, Eric Chen, Yuan Tian, Jaime Teevan, Mary Czerwinski, and Susan Dumais, Microsoft Research

Lax: Driver Interfaces for Approximate Sensor Device Access

 

Phillip Stanley-Marbell and Martin Rinard, Massachusetts Institute of Technology

节能传感器设备，通过降级数据采集准确度来为穿戴设备省电

OSDI'14

Scaling Distributed Machine Learning with the Parameter Server

 

Mu Li, Carnegie Mellon University and Baidu; David G. Andersen and Jun Woo Park, Carnegie Mellon University;Alexander J. Smola, Carnegie Mellon University and Google, Inc.; Amr Ahmed, Vanja Josifovski, James Long, Eugene J. Shekita, and Bor-Yiing Su, Google, Inc.

GraphX: Graph Processing in a Distributed Dataflow Framework

 

Joseph E. Gonzalez, University of California, Berkeley; Reynold S. Xin, University of California, Berkeley, and Databricks; Ankur Dave, Daniel Crankshaw, and Michael J. Franklin, University of California, Berkeley; Ion Stoica,University of California, Berkeley, and Databricks

Project Adam: Building an Efficient and Scalable Deep Learning Training System

 

Trishul Chilimbi, Yutaka Suzue, Johnson Apacible, and Karthik Kalyanaraman, Microsoft Research

f4: Facebook's Warm BLOB Storage System

 

Subramanian Muralidhar, Facebook, Inc.; Wyatt Lloyd, University of Southern California and Facebook, Inc.;Sabyasachi Roy, Cory Hill, Ernest Lin, Weiwen Liu, Satadru Pan, Shiva Shankar, and Viswanath Sivakumar,Facebook, Inc.; Linpeng Tang, Princeton University and Facebook, Inc.; Sanjeev Kumar, Facebook, Inc.

GPUnet: Networking Abstractions for GPU Programs

 

Sangman Kim, Seonggu Huh, Yige Hu, Xinya Zhang, and Emmett Witchel, The University of Texas at Austin; Amir Wated and Mark Silberstein, Technion—Israel Institute of Technology