Spring 2021
The seminar will be online via Zoom due to COVID-19. Please ask Tianyin or Indy for the Zoom link if you are interested in attending.
Thursday 3:00--4:00pm
UIUC System Reading Group is a weekly meetup for anyone interested in systems research at University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign.
We discuss recent significant work (e.g., published at top-tier conferences), critique each other's projects, and identify new research directions/ideas.
Join us on Slack: uiuc-sysnet.slack.com
Please register CS 591 (IG) if you need one credit.
| Date | Topic | Speaker |
|---|---|---|
| 1/28 | Introduction and organization |
Le Xu
Indranil Gupta Tianyin Xu |
| 2/4 |
CS Speakers Series: 12:00--1:00pm (link)
Combinatorial Testing: From Theory to Practice |
Rachel Tzoref-Brill
(IBM Research) |
| 2/4 |
Learning in situ: a randomized experiment in video streaming (pdf) NSDI 2020 |
Rui Yang |
| 2/8 |
CS Speakers Series: 3:30--4:30pm (link)
Building storage systems for new applications, new hardware, and new metrics |
Vijay Chidambaram (UT Austin) |
| 2/18 |
Practice talk:
Move Fast and Meet Deadlines: Fine-grained Real-time Stream Processing with Cameo (pdf) NSDI 2021 |
Le Xu |
| 2/25 | Practice qual exam talk | Xudong Sun |
| 3/4 | Watch Le's NSDI video with home-microwaved popcorns | Le Xu |
| 3/11 |
Practice talk:
Privacy-preserving Decentralized Aggregation for Federated Learning FOGML 2021 |
Beomyeol Jeon |
| 3/18 | Round Table (w/o Pizza..) | Everyone |
| 3/25 | X-sys failures | Jianyan Chen, Anna Karanika, Xudong Sun, Lilia Tang |
| 3/31 |
Just Infrastructures Speakers Series: 12:00--1:00pm (link)
Empowering Farmers with Affordable Digital Agriculture Solutions |
Ranveer Chandra (Microsoft) |
| 4/1 | X-sys failures (Episode II) | Jianyan Chen, Anna Karanika, Xudong Sun, Lilia Tang |
| 4/7 | Just Infrastructures Speakers Series: 12:00--1:00pm (link)
Critical Algorithm Studies: A View From Inside |
Suresh Venkatasubramanian (Utah) |
| 4/8 |
Practice Talk: Home, SafeHome: Smart Home Reliability with Visibility and Atomicity EuroSys 2021 |
Rui Yang |
| 4/15 |
Take Two: Home, SafeHome: Smart Home Reliability with Visibility and Atomicity EuroSys 2021 |
Rui Yang |
| 4/22 |
Pipelining in distributed training
Pipelined Backpropagation at Scale: Training Large Models without Batches, MLSys, 2021 PipeMare: Asynchronous Pipeline Parallel DNN Training, MLSys, 2021 Slides: pptx |
Simon Xie |
| 4/29 |
On the Use of ML for Blackbox System Performance Prediction NSDI 2021 |
Subho Banerjee, Xudong Sun, Le Xu, Andrew Yoo |
| 5/6 |
Practice Talk: Reasoning about modern datacenter infrastructures using partial histories (pdf) HotOS 2021 |
Xudong Sun |
| 5/17 |
15:00--16:00pm
Practice Talk: Fail-slow fault tolerance needs programming support (pdf) HotOS 2021 |
Shuai Mu (Stony Brook University) |
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