Systems Group - Seminars and other events
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2008
Next Event
5 March 2008
We will start our group seminar from next Wednesday
afternoon at 3pm.
Future seminars will start at 10:00 am.
The venue is at the Systems Research Lab.
For the following weeks, the schedule is open.
Please let
Zhiyi know if you want to give a talk on your work.
March 7
Protocol Support for Live Streaming Media
Syed Hasan, Computer Science Department
March 12
Zhiyi will give a seminar on Xen virtualization.
It will mainly focus on memory management, virtual
devices, hypervisor API, etc.
After the seminar we will have a farewell party
for Faisal and Zhaobin. Faisal will leave on 15th
March, and Zhaobin will leave on 14th March. Zhiyi will
arrange some light refreshment.
March 19
Time: 10am
Venue: Systems Research Lab
(2s01, Attic of Geology Building)
Speaker: Tomas Hruby
Title:
(Not so) recent development in filesystems
(The slides of the talk are available as a pdf file.)
March 26
Time: 10am
Venue: Systems Research Lab
(2s01, Attic of Geology Building)
Speaker: Cameron Kerr
Synopsis: Cameron will give a talk on a recent NZNOG
conference. It will be a report on a talk given at the latest New
Zealand Network Operators Group (NZNOG) concerning the lawful
interception capability of telecommunications (voice and data), and
how this affects network and service providers in NZ.
April 02
Time: 10am
Venue: Systems Research Lab
(2s01, Attic of Geology Building)
Speaker: Chakkaradeep Chandran
Title:
Educator - my MSc Project
Chaks will talk about his MSc project. He has finished
implementation and will start to write his thesis. Please come to
support him and give constructive suggestions. Also Chaks would like
some of you to try out the system after the seminar.
April 09
Time: 10:30am
Venue: Systems Research Lab
(2s01, Attic of Geology Building)
Speaker: Huan Zhang
Title:
my PhD Proposal
This Wednesday at 10:30am, Huan Zhang will give a talk on his PhD
proposal on parallelization of Snort and network intrusion detection.
Huan is a PhD student from Canterbury University and will work on a
parallel Snort on multi-core computers.
Please note the time has been adjusted to 10:30am.
April 10
Time: 11:30am - 12::00 noon
Venue: Systems Research Lab
(2s01, Attic of Geology Building)
There will be a delegation of six from a Chinese university (NUDT) to visit
the lab. NUDT (National University of Defense Technology) is Zhiyi's mother
university. Its computer science is top ranked in China. This
delegation is led by its Vice-Chancellor. Zhiyi hopes colleagues and
students at Systems Research Group will be available between 11:30am
and 12pm on Thursday, as he will be showing the visitors the lab and people.
May 21
Time: 10am
Venue: Systems Research Lab
(2s01, Attic of Geology Building)
Speaker: (Tim) Qihang Huang
Title:
UPC (Unified Parallel C
This talk will focus on the basics of UPC, covering its execution model,
address space, work sharing construct, synchronization mechanism, memory
consistency, and its collective library.
May 28
Time: 10am
Venue: Systems Research Lab
(2s01, Attic of Geology Building)
Speaker: Tomas Hruby
Title:
Sun4v architecture - From OBP to userspace
This talk will cover certain low-level issues like OBP, MMU and the hypervisor API.
June 12
Time: 3:00pm
Venue: Systems Research Lab
(2s01, Attic of Geology Building)
This Thursday (12th) at 3pm we will have some social time at the Systems
Research Lab. As you might have known, Jothi has just come back from
India, Tomas will leave for Sydney in two weeks, and our French
interns Marc and Wayne will be leaving in two weeks as well. So it is
time for a social gathering!
To help with our students, I will start with a short talk on thesis
based research. It will be very short (5 minutes), just to throw some
questions to ponder.
I need some helpers on Thursday to buy food and drinks. Any volunteers?
July 30
Time: 11:00am
Venue: Systems Research Lab
(2s01, Attic of Geology Building)
Zhiyi will give a talk on VOPP.
(He plans to give this talk also at Sun, ICPP08, and MIT.)
August 06
Time: 2:00 pm
Venue: Systems Research Lab
(2s01, Attic of Geology Building)
There will be two talks from TELE402 students, Boying and Tri.
They will talk about RFID and current projects on parallel computing respectively.
Apologies for the late notice.
August 13
Time: 11:00 am
Venue: Systems Research Lab
(2s01, Attic of Geology Building)
Wei will present his MSc project proposal on RFID antennas.
August 20
Time: 11:00 am
Venue: Systems Research Lab
(2s01, Attic of Geology Building)
Kai-Cheung will talk about the Cilk project from MIT.
Cilk is a language for multithreaded parallel programming based on
ANSI C. Cilk is designed for general-purpose parallel programming, but
it is especially effective for exploiting dynamic, highly asynchronous
parallelism, which can be difficult to write in data-parallel or
message-passing style.
August 21
Time: 1:00 pm
Venue: Archway 3
Alistair Moffat (Head of Computer Science, University of Melbourne) will be
giving a talk based on IR. Since it will also cover other topics, including
measuring the efficiency of distributed systems, it will be of interest to
the systems group.
August 27
Time: 11:00 am
Venue: Systems Research Lab
(2s01, Attic of Geology Building)
Tim will give a talk on Transactional Memory.
Transactional Memory (TM) was first proposed in around 1986, and later
became a hit when Software Transactional Memory (STM) was proposed in
around 1993, then since around 2004 it once again becomes a hot research
area when parallel programming seems to be a must.
This seminar will look at the key mechanisms of TM, i.e. data versioning
and conflict detection. We will also talk about implementations of the
three different kinds of TM, i.e. Hardware Transactional Memory (HTM),
Software Transactional Memory (STM), and Hybrid Transactional Memory
(HyTM). If time permits, we will also briefly mention the on-going
research projects of TM.
September 24
Time: 11:00 am
Venue: Systems Research Lab
(2s01, Attic of Geology Building)
Tim will give a talk on Software Transaction Memory.
This seminar will look at both static and dynamic software transaction
memory (DSTM), with the focus on DSTM. The main difference between these
two is that DSTM does not need to know the size and memory access of a
transaction in advance. In this talk, I will talk more about the
implementation of STM, compared to the last talk which was a general
introduction to transaction memory.
October 15
Time: 11:00 am
Venue: Systems Research Lab
(2s01, Attic of Geology Building)
Judith Winter (a PhD student at Frankfurt University) is visiting us this
week and will give a talk on Peer-2-Peer XML Search Engines.
October 22
Time: 11:00 am
Venue: Systems Research Lab
(2s01, Attic of Geology Building)
Windows Research Kernel (WRK), part of the Windows Academic Program,
contains the source code of the NT kernel. WRK is compatible with Windows
XP and server 2003. Just like other versions of the NT kernel, WRK doesn't
have a proper process hierarchy. In this talk, Fei will discuss process
management in WRK and provide a solution for maintaining process
relationships.
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