Eighth Annual Microsoft Research Networking Summit

Data Analytics and the Networks that Enable them

Monday, June 18, 2012

Time / Event/ Topic

7:30 - 8:30 AM

Breakfast

9:00 - 9:15 AM

Opening Remarks

Victor Bahl, Research Manager, Mobility & Networking, MSR

9:15 - 10:00 AM

Keynote: State of the Art and Challenges of Big Data for Enterprises (Surajit Chaudhuri, Distinguished Scientist and Managing Director, XCG)

10:00 - 10:30 PM

Coffee Break & Mingling

10:30 - 12:00 noon

Session 1: A New World

Session Chair: Srikanth Kandula

Analytical Tools for Analyzing Genomes across Populations (George Varghese)
Challenges in Cloud Telemetry (Craig Labovitz)
Hardware Trends – How do they Impact Data Analytics? (Ant Rowstron)
Supporting Scientfic Analyses (Brighten Godfrey)
Hardware 2020: Challenges, Disruptions, and Opportunities (Doug Burger)

12:00 - 1:30 PM

Lunch

1:30 - 3:30 PM

Session 2: Networking Research meets Data Analytics

Session Chair: Ming Zhang

Next Generation Networking Architectures for Cloud-based Data Applications (Raj Jain)
Big Data and Networking – Closing the Loop (Mark Crovella)
Network Programming Languages (Nate Foster)
Is OpenFlow/SDN sufficient for Cloud Nets with Big Data Apps? (Srini Seetharaman)
eXpressive Network Architecture for the Cloud (Aditya Akella)

3:30 - 4:00 PM

Afternoon Break & Mingling Time

4:00 - 5:30 PM

Session 3: Large-Scale Analytics

Session Chair: Badrish Chandramouli

Big data workloads + Parallel DBMSs 101 (Magda Balazinska)
Unifying streaming and batch computation models for large scale analytics (Ion Stoica)
Performance Isolation in Cloud Data Services (Vivek Narasayya)
Taming Big Data with the Sparse Fourier Transform (Dina Katabi)

5:30 - 6:00 PM

Break & Mingle

6:00 - 7:00 PM

Session 4: It's all about Mobile

Session Chair: Alec Wolman

Mobile Computing Meets Big Data (David Wetherall)
Enriching the Mobility Service Abstraction through the use of Intelligence derived from Network Sata (Kobus Van Der Merwe)
Why the Mobile Data Analytics is Fundamentally Different and Harder (Sharad Agarwal)

7:30 PM --

Dinner Banquet

Host: Victor Bahl, Microsoft Research

At the Chateau Ste. Michelle.

Tuesday, June 19, 2012

Time / Event/ Topic

8:00 - 8:30 AM

Breakfast

9:00 - 10 AM

Session 5: Infrastructure Optimizations

Session Chair: Jeremy Elson

Managing Data in Big Data Processing Frameworks for Performance and Fault Tolerance (Eugene Ng)
Distributed Adaptive Routing for Datacenter Networks (Xiaowei Yang)
Service-centric Networking for Datacenter Services (Mike Freedman)

10:00 - 10:45 AM

Poster Session, Morning Break & Mingle

SLAs for data-parallel jobs and other things (Peter Bodik)
Automatic IO Filtering to Optimize Cloud Analytics (Christo Gkantsidis)
CARAT: Collaborative Energy Debugging (Anand Iyer)
FairCloud: Sharing the Network in Cloud Computing (Gautam Kumar)
SILT: A Memory-Efficient, High-Performance Key-Value Store (Hyeontaek Lim)
XIA: An Evolvable, Expressive, and Secure Internet Architecture (Hyeontaek Lim and Aditya Akella)
AppInsight: Mobile App Performance Monitoring in the Wild (Lenin Ravindranath Sivalingam)

10:45 - 12:00 Noon

Panel: Reflections from Practitioners: The State of Research vs. Practice

Moderator: Ratul Mahajan

Panelists: Deepak Bansal, Vijay Gill, Craig Labovitz, Jingren Zhou

12:00 - 1:30 PM

Lunch

1:30 - 1:45 PM

Breakouts: Rules of Engagement - Framework and Deliverables

1:45 - 3:30 PM

Working Group Breakout Discussions

WG1: Frameworks for Distributed Analyses: with consideration to what is out there, what is ideal, and what is needed to get us there. Report.
WG2: Network Support for Performance: with consideration to appropriate networks, architectures and techniques. Report.
WG3: New Directions: with consideration to programmable networks, genomics, scientific data, hardware trends. Report.

3:30 - 4:00 PM

Afternoon Break & Stretching

4:00 - 5:00 PM

Working Group Reports

5:00 --

Impressions, Summary and Closing Remarks

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