Table of Contents

• Why Does the Cloud Stop Computing?: Lessons from Hundreds of Service OutagesHaryadi S. Gunawi, Mingzhe Hao, Riza O. Suminto, Agung Laksono, Anang D. Satria, Jeffry Adityatama, Kurnia J. Eliazar. 1-16 [doi]
• Automating Failure Testing Research at Internet ScalePeter Alvaro, Kolton Andrus, Chris Sanden, Casey Rosenthal, Ali Basiri, Lorin Hochstein. 17-28 [doi]
• Characterizing Private Clouds: A Large-Scale Empirical Analysis of Enterprise ClustersIgnacio Cano, Srinivas Aiyar, Arvind Krishnamurthy. 29-41 [doi]
• Availability Knob: Flexible User-Defined Availability in the CloudMohammad Shahrad, David Wentzlaff. 42-56 [doi]
• Optasia: A Relational Platform for Efficient Large-Scale Video AnalyticsYao Lu, Aakanksha Chowdhery, Srikanth Kandula. 57-70 [doi]
• A Fault-Tolerant Framework for Asynchronous Iterative Computations in Cloud EnvironmentsZhigang Wang, Lixin Gao, Yu Gu 0002, Yubin Bao, Ge Yu. 71-83 [doi]
• Ako: Decentralised Deep Learning with Partial Gradient ExchangePijika Watcharapichat, Victoria Lopez Morales, Raul Castro Fernandez, Peter R. Pietzuch. 84-97 [doi]
• Addressing the straggler problem for iterative convergent parallel MLAaron Harlap, Henggang Cui, Wei Dai, Jinliang Wei, Gregory R. Ganger, Phillip B. Gibbons, Garth A. Gibson, Eric P. Xing. 98-111 [doi]
• RAMinate: Hypervisor-based Virtualization for Hybrid Main Memory SystemsTakahiro Hirofuchi, Ryousei Takano. 112-125 [doi]
• A Case for Virtualizing Persistent MemoryLiang Liang, Rong Chen, Haibo Chen, Yubin Xia, KwanJong Park, Binyu Zang, Haibing Guan. 126-140 [doi]
• Follow the Sun through the Clouds: Application Migration for Geographically Shifting WorkloadsZhiming Shen, Qin Jia, Gur-Eyal Sela, Ben Rainero, Weijia Song, Robbert van Renesse, Hakim Weatherspoon. 141-154 [doi]
• HIL: Designing an Exokernel for the Data CenterJason Hennessey, Sahil Tikale, Ata Turk, Emine Ugur Kaynar, Chris Hill, Peter Desnoyers, Orran Krieger. 155-168 [doi]
• BASS: Improving I/O Performance for Cloud Block Storage via Byte-Addressable Storage StackHui Lu, Brendan Saltaformaggio, Cong Xu, Umesh Bellur, Dongyan Xu. 169-181 [doi]
• The Case for RackOut: Scalable Data Serving Using Rack-Scale SystemsStanko Novakovic, Alexandros Daglis, Edouard Bugnion, Babak Falsafi, Boris Grot. 182-195 [doi]
• Grandet: A Unified, Economical Object Store for Web ApplicationsYang Tang, Gang Hu, XinHao Yuan, Lingmei Weng, Junfeng Yang. 196-209 [doi]
• Randomized Algorithms for Dynamic Storage Load-BalancingLiang Liu, Lance Fortnow, Jin Li, Yating Wang, Jun Xu. 210-222 [doi]
• CQSTR: Securing Cross-Tenant Applications with Cloud ContainersYan Zhai, Lichao Yin, Jeffrey Chase, Thomas Ristenpart, Michael M. Swift. 223-236 [doi]
• Radiatus: a Shared-Nothing Server-Side Web ArchitectureRaymond Cheng, Will Scott, Paul Ellenbogen, Jon Howell, Franziska Roesner, Arvind Krishnamurthy, Thomas E. Anderson. 237-250 [doi]
• Tutamen: A Next-Generation Secret-Storage PlatformAndy Sayler, Taylor Andrews, Matthew Monaco, Dirk Grunwald. 251-264 [doi]
• Privacy Preserving Collaboration in Bring-Your-Own-AppsSangmin Lee, Deepak Goel, Edmund L. Wong, Asim Kadav, Mike Dahlin. 265-278 [doi]
• Disciplined Inconsistency with Consistency TypesBrandon Holt, James Bornholt, Irene Zhang, Dan R. K. Ports, Mark Oskin, Luis Ceze. 279-293 [doi]
• Towards Weakly Consistent Local Storage SystemsJi-Yong Shin, Mahesh Balakrishnan, Tudor Marian, Jakub Szefer, Hakim Weatherspoon. 294-306 [doi]
• The Freeze-Frame File SystemWeijia Song, Theo Gkountouvas, Ken Birman, Qi Chen, Zhen Xiao. 307-320 [doi]
• Adaptive Caching in Big SQL using the HDFS CacheAvrilia Floratou, Nimrod Megiddo, Navneet Potti, Fatma Özcan, Uday Kale, Jan Schmitz-Hermes. 321-333 [doi]
• ReStream: Accelerating Backtesting and Stream Replay with Serial-Equivalent Parallel ProcessingJohann Schleier-Smith, Erik T. Krogen, Joseph M. Hellerstein. 334-347 [doi]
• STYX: Stream Processing with Trustworthy Cloud-based ExecutionJulian James Stephen, Savvas Savvides, Vinaitheerthan Sundaram, Masoud Saeida Ardekani, Patrick Eugster. 348-360 [doi]
• Trading Timeliness and Accuracy in Geo-Distributed Streaming AnalyticsBenjamin Heintz, Abhishek Chandra, Ramesh K. Sitaraman. 361-373 [doi]
• SNC-Meister: Admitting More Tenants with Tail Latency SLOsTimothy Zhu, Daniel S. Berger, Mor Harchol-Balter. 374-387 [doi]
• STeP: Scalable Tenant Placement for Managing Database-as-a-Service DeploymentsRebecca Taft, Willis Lang, Jennie Duggan, Aaron J. Elmore, Michael Stonebraker, David J. DeWitt. 388-400 [doi]
• Principled workflow-centric tracing of distributed systemsRaja R. Sambasivan, Ilari Shafer, Jonathan Mace, Benjamin H. Sigelman, Rodrigo Fonseca, Gregory R. Ganger. 401-414 [doi]
• PerfOrator: eloquent performance models for Resource OptimizationKaushik Rajan, Dharmesh Kakadia, Carlo Curino, Subru Krishnan. 415-427 [doi]
• VNToR: Network Virtualization at the Top-of-Rack SwitchJonas Fietz, Sam Whitlock, George Ioannidis, Katerina J. Argyraki, Edouard Bugnion. 428-441 [doi]
• Expeditus: Congestion-aware Load Balancing in Clos Data Center NetworksPeng Wang, Hong Xu, Zhixiong Niu, Dongsu Han, Yongqiang Xiong. 442-455 [doi]
• Programming and Runtime Support to Blaze FPGA Accelerator Deployment at Datacenter ScaleMuhuan Huang, Di Wu, Cody Hao Yu, Zhenman Fang, Matteo Interlandi, Tyson Condie, Jason Cong. 456-469 [doi]
• PipeGen: Data Pipe Generator for Hybrid AnalyticsBrandon Haynes, Alvin Cheung, Magdalena Balazinska. 470-483 [doi]
• TR-Spark: Transient Computing for Big Data AnalyticsYing Yan, Yanjie Gao, Yang Chen, Zhongxin Guo, Bole Chen, Thomas Moscibroda. 484-496 [doi]
• Job-aware Scheduling in Eagle: Divide and Stick to Your ProbesPamela Delgado, Diego Didona, Florin Dinu, Willy Zwaenepoel. 497-509 [doi]
• Optimizing Interactive Development of Data-Intensive ApplicationsMatteo Interlandi, Sai Deep Tetali, Muhammad Ali Gulzar, Joseph Noor, Tyson Condie, Miryung Kim, Todd D. Millstein. 510-522 [doi]