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This is the Group-Meeting collections of HKUST System NetworkING (SING) Research Group.

SING Weekly Discussions Archive

This is the Weekly Discussion Order.

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2018

Octorber

Date	Presenter	Topic	Source	Links
10/26	Yiding
10/26	Jiacheng
10/20	Han	Deep Reinforcement learning Overview	Topic	Slides
10/13	Xinchen	HotCocoa: Hardware Congestion Control Abstractions	HotNets 17	HotCocoa,Slides
10/06	Ding	Hierarchical Heavy Hitter	SIGCOMM 2017	Heavy Hitter Paper,Slides
10/06	Yiqing	A tutorial on Parameter Server (Part II)	OSDI 2014	Slides

September

Date	Presenter	Topic	Source	Links
09/29	Junxue	How to use our TestBed	Tutorial	TestBed slides
09/22	Yiqing	A tutorial on Parameter Server (Part I)	OSDI 2014	PS paper, PPT
09/08	Zhaorong	Andromeda: Performance, Isolation, and Velocity at Scale in Cloud Network Virtualization	NSDI 2018	Andromeda paper and slides

August

Date	Presenter	Topic	Source	Links
08/31	Qinghe	AWStream: Adaptive Wide-Area Streaming Analytics	Sigcomm 2018	AWStream paper and slides
08/24	Wenxin	Drizzle: Fast and Adaptable Stream Processing at Scale	SOSP 2017	Drizzle paper and slides
08/18	Jingrong	Revisiting Network Support for RDMA	Sigcomm 2018	IRN paper and slides
08/11	Hong	PCC: Re-architecting Congestion Control for Consistent High Performance	NSDI 2015	PCC paper and slides
08/04	Ge	Stateless Datacenter Load-balancing with Beamer	NSDI 2018	Beamer paper and slides

July

Date	Presenter	Topic	Source	Links
07/28	Junxue	SnailTrail: Generalizing Critical Paths for Online Analysis of Distributed Dataflows	NSDI 2018	SnailTrail paper and slides
07/21	Gaoxiong	Multi-Path Transport for RDMA in Datacenters	NSDI 2018	MP-RDMA paper and slides
07/14	Qinghe	Chameleon: Scalable Adaptation of video analytics	Sigcomm 2018	Chameleon paper
07/07	Jiacheng	Monotasks: Architecting for Performance Clarity in Data Analytics Frameworks	SOSP 2017	Monotask paper

June

Date	Presenter	Topic	Source	Links
06/30	Justinas	APUS: Fast and Scalable Paxos on RDMA	SoCC 2017	APUS paper
06/23	Shuihai	Homa: A Receiver-Driven Low-Latency Transport Protocol Using Network Priorities	Sigcomm 2018	HOMA paper
06/16	Ge	KV-Direct: High-Performance In-Memory Key-Value Store with Programmable NIC	SOSP 2017	KV paper slides
06/09	Yuchao	Low Latency RNN Inference with Cellular Batching	Eurosys 2018	batchmaker paper
06/02	Wenxin	Introduction to SmartNICs		slides

May

Date	Presenter	Topic	Source	Links
05/26	Junxue	NetChain: Scale-Free Sub-RTT Coordination	NSDI 2018	NetChain paper and slides
05/19	Hong	Semi-Oblivious Traffic Engineering: The Road Not Taken	NSDI 2018	SMORE paper and slides
05/12	Ahmed	Exploring Existing Open Source Network Operating Systems and APIs		slides
05/05	Chaoliang	PASTE: A Network Programming Interface for Non-Volatile Main Memory	NSDI 2018	PASTE paper and slides

April

Date	Presenter	Topic	Source	Links
04/28	Jiacheng	Approximating Fair Queueing on Reconfigurable Switches	NSDI 2018	AFQ paper and slides
04/20	Li, Yuchao	AUTO and BDS rehearsals
04/14	Zhaoxiong	SilkRoad: Making Stateful Layer-4 Load Balancing Fast and Cheap Using Switching ASICs	Sigcomm 2017	Silkroad paper Silkroad slides

March

Date	Presenter	Topic	Source	Links
03/24	Gaoxiong	The Case for Moving Congestion Control Out of the Datapath	HotNets 2017	CCP paper
03/17	Yiding	Clipper: A Low-Latency Online Prediction Serving System	NSDI 2017	Clipper paper and slides
03/10	Yiqing	Pingmesh: A Large-Scale System for Data Center Network Latency Measurement and Analysis	Sigcomm 2015	Pingmesh paper
03/03	Baochen	LITE Kernel RDMA Support for Datacenter Applications	SOSP 2017	LITE paper

Febrary

Date	Presenter	Topic	Source	Links
02/10	Qinghe	NEVE: Nested Virtualization Extensions for ARM	SOSP 2017	NEVE paper slides

January

Date	Presenter	Topic	Source	Links
01/13	Justinas	Eris: Coordination-Free Consistent Transactions Using In-Network Concurrency Control	SOSP 2017	Eris paper
01/06	Li	Taking the Edge off with Espresso Scale, Reliability and Programmability for Global Internet Peering	Sigcomm 2017	Espresso paper

2017

December

Date	Presenter	Topic	Source	Links
12/31	Ge	NetCache: Balancing Key-Value Stores with Fast In-Network Caching	SOSP 2017	NetCache paper P4 introduction slides
12/09	Junxue	Carousel: Scalable Traffic Shaping at End Hosts	Sigcomm 2017	Carousel paper
12/02	Hong	RotorNet: A Scalable, Low-complexity, Optical Datacenter Network	Sigcomm 2017	RotorNet paper slides

November

Date	Presenter	Topic	Source	Links
11/25	Bairen	CrystalNet: Faithfully Emulating Large Production Networks	SOSP 2017	CrystalNet paper slides
11/18	Zhaoxiong	CherryPick: Adaptively Unearthing the Best Cloud Configurations for Big Data Analytics	NSDI 2017	CherryPick paper and slides
11/11	Jiacheng	SLAQ: Quality-Driven Scheduling for Distributed Machine Learning	SoCC 2017	SLAQ paper
11/04	Yiding	No! Not Another Deep Learning Framework	HotOS 2017	paper link

October

Date	Presenter	Topic	Source	Links
10/28	Baochen	Poseidon: An Efficient Communication Architecture for Distributed Deep Learning on GPU Clusters	ATC 2017	Poseidon paper and slides
10/21	Qinghe	Neural Adaptive Video Streaming with Pensieve	Sigcomm 2017	Pensive paper
10/14	Shuihai	Re-architecting datacenter networks and stacks for low latency and high performance	Sigcomm 2017	NDP paper
10/07	Gaoxiong	The QUIC Transport Protocol: Design and Internet-Scale Deployment	Sigcomm 2017	QUIC paper slides

September

Date	Presenter	Topic	Source	Links
09/30	Li	Deploying Unique DL Networks as Micro-Services with TensorRT, user Extensible Layers, and GPU Rest Engine	NVDIA GTC 2017	TensorRT slides
09/16	Yuchao	DRILL: Micro Load Balancing for Low-latency Data Center Networks	Sigcomm 2017	DRILL paper slides
09/09	Junxue	Summary of sigcomm 2017	Sigcomm 2017	papers
09/02	Justinas	vCorfu: A Cloud-Scale Object Store on a Shared Log	NSDI 2017	vCorfu paper and slides

August

Date	Presenter	Topic	Source	Links
08/26	Ge	Stateless Network Functions: Breaking the Tight Coupling of State and Processing	NSDI 2017	StatelessNF paper and slides
08/19	Hong	resilient datacenter load balancing in the wild	Sigcomm 2017	Hermes paper slides
08/12	Gaoxiong	Evaluating the Power of Flexible Packet Processing for Network Resource Allocation	NSDI 2017	FlexSwitch paper and slides

July

Date	Presenter	Topic	Source	Links
07/29	Bairen	Performance Isolation Anomalies in RDMA	KBNets 2017	slides
07/15	Baochen	Fast, Scalable and Simple Distributed Transactions with Two-Sided (RDMA) Datagram RPCs	SOSP 2016	Faast paper and slides