Research

Spring 2019

Time and Location

The lunch seminar is held every Friday from 12:15 to 13:15 at CAB E 72.

Lunch Seminar organizers:

Merve Gürel, Frances Hubis, Simon Kassing, Fabio Maschi

 

The topic will be announced shortly before the talk.

 

Date Speaker Institute Topic Food
22.02.2019 Mathias Soeken EPFL Building quantum compilers with logic synthesis Moritz Hoffmann
01.03.2019 Dimitris Sarigiannis ETH Zurich Tera-scale Machine Learning on Distributed Heterogenous Platforms Debopam Bhattacherjee
  Monica Chiosa ETH Zurich Systems and FPGAs  
  David Dao ETH Zurich Machine Learning Systems for Social Good  
08.03.2019 Zhenhao He ETH Zurich Virtual Channels: Enabling Applications on Multi-FPGA Platforms Zaheer Chothia
15.03.2019 Michal Wawrzoniak ETH Zurich   Vojislav Dukic
  Susie Xi Rao ETH Zurich    
  Daniel Schwyn ETH Zurich    
22.03.2019 Vojislav Dukic ETH Zurich Short talk Shaoduo Gan
  Satadal Sengupta ETH Zurich / IIT Kharagpur Short introductory talk  
29.03.2019 Alexander Hedges ETH Zurich ECI (Enzian Coherent Interconnect): Theory and Practice Roni Häcki
  Nikita Lazarev ETH Zurich    
05.04.2019 Mattia Gollub, Eline Bijman ETH Zurich iGEM AROMA Reto Achermann
12.04.2019 Cedric Renggli ETH Zurich Comparison Based Optimization Kaan Kara
  Nora Hollenstein ETH Zurich    
19.04.2019 -- GOOD FRIDAY      
26.04.2019 Ghislain Fourny ETH Zurich Querying JSON on Spark: DataFrames without frames Abishek Ramdas
03.05.2019 Andrea Lattuada ETH Zurich Replicator: coordination-free fault-tolerance in streaming Monica Chiosa
10.05.2019 Rodrigo Bruno ETH Zurich Swiss-Scale Multi-Mode Transport Simulation Renato Marroquín
  Bojan Karlaš ETH Zurich Data Processing Pipelines for Automated Feature Engineering  
17.05.2019 Tim Kraska MIT Towards Learned Algorithms, Data Structures, and Systems Johannes Rausch
24.05.2019 Zeke Wang ETH Zurich Memory representations for machine learning on hardware accelerators Dario Korolija
31.05.2019 Jansen Zhao ETH Zurich   Bojan Karlaš

 

Fall 2018


Time and Location

The lunch seminar is held every Friday from 12:15 to 13:15 at CAB E 72.

Lunch Seminar organizers:

Vasiliki Kalavri, Melissa Licciardello, Shaoduo Gan, Sabir Akhadov

 

The topic will be announced shortly before the talk.

 

Date Speaker Institute Topic Food
 21.09.2018  Can Firtina  ETH Zurich  Biologically inspired computing architectures and their integration with the Brain-Computer Interfaces

Andrea Lattuada

(Bagels)
Abishek Ramdas   ETH Zurich  VLSI Testing and Diagnosis
     
 28.09.2018  Frances Hubis  ETH Zurich  Variational Inference for Dynamic Causal Models Reto Achermann
 Yishay Oltchik  ETH Zurich  Network Topologies and Graph Theory
 Giray Yaglikci  ETH Zurich  Latency and Energy Characteristics of DRAMs
 05.10.2018  Alan Mishchenko  UC Berkeley

FPGA Technology Mapping for LUTs, LUT Structures, and Programmable Cells

  David Sidler
 12.10.2018  Alser  Mohammed H. K. ETH Zurich Title 1: Accelerating Genome Analysis

Title 2: Performance modeling and optimization with artificial intelligence methods

 Yishai Oltchik
 Shigang Li
 19.10.2018 Michel Muller  ETH Zurich  Streamlining High Performance Computing  Marcin Copik
 26.10.2018  Müller Ingo  ETH Zurich The Collection Virtual Machine -- An Abstraction for Multi-Frontend Multi-Backend Data Analysis  Lukas Humbel
 02.11.2018

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 09.11.2018 Hantian Zhang  ETH Zurich  Towards an updatable learned index Salvatore Di Girolamo
16.11.2018 Moritz Hoffmann  ETH Zurich  Megaphone: Live state migration for distributed streaming dataflows

Alexandros Ziogas
 23.11.2018 Fabio Maschi  ETH Zurich  Memory Study and Optimisation within a Neural Network Hardware Accelerator Tobias Gysi
 30.11.2018 Reto Achermann  ETH Zurich Mitosis – Transparent Self-Replicating Page Tables for Big Memory Machines  Hasan Hassan
 07.12.2018 Muhsen Owaida  ETH Zurich

Inference of Decision Tree Ensembles on Modern FPGA platforms

 Simon Kassing
 14.12.2018

Vojislav Dukic

  ETH Zurich  Happiness index: Right-sizing the cloud’s tenant-provider interface  Nora Hollenstein

 

Computing Platforms Seminar Series (COMPASS)

The Computing Platforms Seminar Series (COMPASS) is focused on talks by industry and academia around the general topic of computing platforms.

COMPASS is held on most Thursdays during the semester 10:00-11:00 (with some exceptions) in CAB E 72.


Upcoming Talks

TBA

  

Past COMPASS Talks:  

Date Speaker Affiliation Talk
28.11.2019 Djordje Zegarac and Martin Marciniszyn Tensor Technologies High Frequency Trading and FPGAs
21.11.2019 Tamás Hauer Google Zurich Meaningful Availability
17.10.2019 René Müller
NVIDIA Simplifying NVIDIA GPU Access: A Polyglot Binding for GPUs with GraalVM
10.10.2019 Norman May SAP Research Exploiting modern hardware in SAP HANA
26.09.2019 Ben Zhao University of Chicago Hidden Backdoors in Deep Learning Systems
19.09.2019 Martin Hentschel/Max Heimel Snowflake File Metadata Management at Snowflake
11.07.2019 Boris Grot University of Edinburgh Scale-Out ccNUMA: Embracing Skew in Distributed Key-Value Stores
17.05.2019 Tim Kraska MIT Towards Learned Algorithms, Data Structures, and Systems
25.04.2019 Peter Pietzuch Imperial College London Scaling Deep Learning on Multi-GPU Servers
28.03.2019 Theo Rekatsinas
University of Wisconsin A Machine Learning Perspective on Managing Noisy Data
21.03.2019 Marko Vukolic IBM Research Hyperledger Fabric: a Distributed Operating System for Permissioned Blockchains
28.02.2019 Alberto Lerner University of Fribourg
 The Case for Network-Accelerated Query Processing
21.02.2019 Thomas Würthinger Oracle Labs Bringing the Code to the Data with GraalVM
31.01.2019 Irene Zhang Microsoft Research, Redmond Demikernel: An Operating System Architecture for Hardware-Accelerated Datacenter Servers
25.10.2018 Mihnea Andrei SAP HANA Snapshot isolation in HANA - the evolution towards production-grade HTAP
04.10.2018 Philippe Bonnet IT University, Copenhagen, Denmark Near-Data Processing with Open-Channel SSDs
25.09.2018 Nandita Vijaykumar   Carnegie Mellon University Expressive Memory: Rethinking the Hardware-Software Contract with Rich Cross-Layer Abstractions
20.09.2018 Patrick Stüdi IBM Research Data processing at the speed of 100 Gbps using Apache Crail (Incubating)
15.08.2018 Leonid Yavits
Technion Resistive CAM based architectures: Resistive Associative In-Storage Processor and Resistive Address Decoder
06.07.2018 Martin Burtscher Texas State University Automatic Hierarchical Parallelization of Linear Recurrences
15.06.2018 Nitin Agrawal Samsung Research Low-Latency Analytics on Colossal Data Streams with SummaryStore
24.05.2018 Cagri Balkesen Oracle Labs RAPID: In-Memory Analytical Query Processing Engine with Extreme Performance per Watt
16.05.2018 Carsten Binnig TU Darmstadt Towards Interactive Data Exploration
09.05.2018 Bastian Hossbach Oracle Labs Modern programming languages and code generation in the Oracle Database
26.04.2018 Spyros Blanas Ohio State University Scaling database systems to high-performance computers
19.04.2018 Jane Hung MIT The Challenges and Promises of Large-Scale Biological Imaging
12.04.2018 Christoph Hagleitner IBM Research Heterogeneous Computing Systems for Datacenter and HPC Applications
14.03.2018  Eric Sedlar
  Oracle Labs
 Why Systems Research Needs Social Science Added to the Computer Science
01.03.2018 Saughata Ghose Carnegie Mellon University How Safe Is Your Storage? A Look at the Reliability and Vulnerability of Modern Solid-State Drives
22.02.2018  Ioannis Koltsidas IBM Research Zurich System software for commodity solid-state storage

 


 

 

Spring 2017


Time and Location

The lunch seminar is held every Friday from 12:15 to 13:15h at CAB E 72 (lunch provided at 12:00).

Lunch Seminar organizers:

Renato Marroquin, Lukas Humbel, Konstantin Taranov, Debopam Bhattacherjee

 

The topic will be announced shortly before the talk.

Date Speaker Institute Topic Food
24.02.2017 Markus Pilman Snowflake Computing Snowflake - A Data Warehouse built for the Cloud

Ingo Muller

(Bagels)
03.03.2017 Vasiliki Kalavri Systems Group Introduction to Apache Flink

Reto Achermann

(Pizza)
10.03.2017 Tal Ben Nun Systems Group Memory Access Patterns: The Missing Piece of the GPU Programming Puzzle

Claude Barthels

(Nordsee)
17.03.2017 Hasan Hasan Systems Group  DRAM Latency Reduction

 Darko Makreshanski

(Grune Lebanon)
24.03.2017

Satoshi Matsuoka

12:15pm

 Tokyo Institute of Technology FLOPS to BYTES: Accelerating Beyond Moore's Law Roni Häcki 

Aya Fukami

1:00 pm

 Carnegie Mellon University

Improving the Reliability of Chip-Off Forensic Analysis of NAND Flash Memory Devices

  
31.03.2017 Petar Tsankov Information Security Group Programmable Networks with Synthesis Kaan Kara
07.04.2017 Aanjhan Ranganathan System Security Group Securing Next-generation Autonomous Cyber-physical Systems Moritz Hoffmann 
14.04.2017 Good Friday Holiday    
21.04.2017 Darko Makreshanski Systems Group BatchDB: Efficient Isolated Execution of Hybrid OLTP+OLAP Workloads for Interactive Applications Gerd Zellweger
28.04.2017 Debopam Bhattacherjee Systems Group A Cloud-based Content Gathering Network Maciej Besta
05.05.2017 Dimitar Dimitrov Software Reliability Lab Serializability for Eventual Consistency: Criterion, Analysis, and Applications (POPL 2017) Salvatore Di Girolamo
12.05.2017 Alexandr Nigay Systems Group Exploring the idea of virtualizing MPI Sebastian Wicki
19.05.2017 Vojslav Dukic Systems Group Datacenter oracle: Predicting Resource Usage Inside a Data Center  Yaohua Wang
26.05.2017 Salvatore Di Girolamo Systems Group Transparent Caching for RMA Systems

Zaheer Chothia
        

 

Centaur

 Centaur

Spring 2018


Time and Location

The lunch seminar is held every Friday from 12:15 to 13:15 at CAB E 72.

Lunch Seminar organizers:

Hantian Zhang, Alexandros Ziogas, Lukas Arnold, Hasan Hassan

 

The topic will be announced shortly before the talk.

Date Speaker Institute Topic Food
 23 February

David Dao

Systems Group

 AI, meet blockchain - Towards machine learning markets Roni Häcki (Bagel)
Niels Gleinig Systems Group Algebraic analysis of directed graphs
Melissa Licciardello Systems Group Adaptive Bitrate on Video Streaming: a reliable comparison 
Bojan Karlas Systems Group Introduction
 2 March

Sabir Akhadov

Systems Group 

 Pyspark at bare-metal speed David Sidler (Pizza)
Johannes Rausch Systems Group Introduction
Kaveh Razavi Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam Introduction
 9 March Thomas Lemmin Systems Group Spectral Analysis of Fluorescently Labeled Amyloids Zaheer Chothia (Pizza)
 16 March Tal Ben Nun Systems Group Stateful Dataflow Multigraphs: A Data-Centric Bridge between Imperative and Spatial Programming Kaan Kara (Pizza)
23 March  David Cock Systems Group The Status of the Enzian Project Jeremie Kim (Pasta)
 13 April Konstantin Taranov Systems Group Fast and strongly-consistent per-item resilience in key-value stores Lukas Arnold (Sausage/ Tofu with potato salad)
Nora Hollenstein Systems Group & IBM Natural Language Processing @ DS3Lab
 20 April Gustavo Sutter Universidad Autónoma de Madrid Network traffic monitoring in multi-gigabit Ethernet  Alexandr Nigay (Bagel)
 27 April Can Alkan Bilkent University Characterization of genome structural variation and large inversions using high throughput sequencing Claude Barthels (Wraps)
 4 May

Lukas On Arnold

Systems Group 

 Covariance Matrix Calculation on a Hybrid FPGA/CPU System Melissa Licciardello (Pizza)
Marcin Copik Systems Group Introduction
Cédric Renggli Systems Group Introduction
11 May  Maciej Besta Systems Group To Push or To Pull: On Reducing Communication and Synchronzation in Graph Computations Merve Gürel (Dürüm)
 18 May

David Sidler

Systems Group 

 Processing-in-Network (PIN): A programmable NIC for data processing offloading Konstantin Taranov (Pizza)
Amit Kulkarni Systems Group Introduction
 25 May Arash Tavakkol Systems Group FLIN: Enabling Fairness and Enhancing Performance in Modern NVMe Solid State Drives Shaoduo Gan (Falafel)
 1 June Arseniy Zaostrovnykh EPFL A Formally Verified NAT J. de Fine Licht (Wraps)

 

Fall 2016


Time and Location

The lunch seminar is held every Friday from 12:15 to 13:15h at CAB E 72 (lunch provided at 12:00).

Lunch Seminar organizers:

Kaan Kara, Roni Häcki, Claude Barthels and Maciej Besta

 

The topic will be announced shortly before the talk.

Date Speaker Institute Topic Food
 23.09.  Claude Barthels  Systems Group  Distributed Joins on a Thousand Cores  Ingo Müller (Bagels)
 30.09.  Tim Harris  Oracle Labs  What does the operating system ever do for me?
  David Sidler (Pizza)
 07.10.  Zsolt István  Systems Group

Don’t let the size fool you! Smart distributed storage on specialized
hardware.

 Lucas Braun (Pie)
 14.10.  Torsten Hoefler  Systems Group

Scientific Benchmarking of Parallel Computing Systems

 Jana Giceva

(Nordsee)
 21.10.  Desi Dimitrova  Systems Group

Citius, Altius, Fortius: What a network controller should be?

 Simon Gerber

(Döner)
 28.10.  Maciej Besta  Systems Group High-Performance Distributed RMA Locks  Zaheer Chothia
 04.11.  Leo Tam  NVIDIA NVIDIA - Research  Sabela Ramos (Bagels)
 11.11.  Dan Alistarh  ETH Zurich

Architectural Support for Scalable Concurrent Data Structures

 David Cock
(Döner)
 18.11. Antonio Carzinaga USI Lugano

Descriptors, Locators, Identifiers:

Multi-Modal Addressing in the TagNet Information-Centric Networking Architecture

 Desi Dimitrova
(Sandwich)
 25.11.  Andreas Gerstlauer  UT Austin

Learning-Based System-Level Power and Performance Prediction

 Konstantin Taranov
(Pizza)
 02.12.  Lukas Humbel  Systems Group Modeling interrupt systems  Vojislav Dukic (Pie)
 09.12.  Ji Liu University of Rochester Asynchronous parallel optimization for large scale machine learning  Gerd Zellweger (Döner)
 16.12.  Renato Marroquin  Systems Group

READY: Completeness is in the Eye of the Beholder

  Arash Tavakkol

 

Thesis/Lab Projects Descriptions

 

Masters/Semester/Lab Projects

 Master Thesis Projects:

  • Compiling JSONiq to XQuery 3.1 [MT/BT] (pdf)

  • Extending Remote Direct Memory Access (RDMA) with Data Types [MT] (pdf)

  • 100 Gbit/s Key-Value Store [MT] (pdf)

  • Satellite-based low-latency Internet [MT/BT] (pdf)

  • De-anonymizing encrypted video streams [MT] (pdf)

  • Deconstructing YouTube's secret sauce [MT] (pdf)

  • DS3 Lab Project Proposals (Machine Learning, NLP/Computer Vision...)

  • Making machine learning friendlier in the cloud [MT] (pdf)

  • Bringing circuits switching back from the dead [MT] (pdf)

  • Turning Web page delivery upside down [MT or BT] (pdf)

  • How quick could QUIC be? [MT or BT] (pdf)

  • How un/fair is the Internet? [MT or BT] (pdf)

  • How much does the DC network really matter? [MT or BT] (pdf)

 Bachelor Thesis Projects

See proposals marked [MT or BT] above.

 


 

Spring 2016


Time and Location

The lunch seminar is held every Friday from 12:15 to 13:15h at CAB E 72 (lunch provided at 12:00).

Lunch Seminar organizers:

Stefan Kaestle, Anja Gruenheid, David Sidler, Sabela Ramos

 

The topic will be announced shortly before the talk.

Date Speaker Institute Topic Food
 26.02.2016

Reto Achermann,

Stefan Kaestle

  SG

Smelt: Machine-aware Atomic Broadcast Trees for Multicores

  Haecki, Roni (Bagels)
 04.03.2016 Ingo Müller  SG

Engineering Aggregation Operators for Relational In-Memory Database Systems (PhD Thesis)

  Gysi, Tobias (Pizza)
 11.03.2016 Onur Kocberber  Oracle Labs  Accelerators for Data Processing (PhD Thesis)  Kara, Kaan (Libanese Sandwiches)
 18.03.2016  John Liagouris  SG Explaining Outputs in Modern Data Analytics Nushi, Besmira (Hot Pasta)
 25.03.2016 Good Friday      
 01.04.2016 5 Minute Madness     5 Minute Madness   Marroquin, Renato (Döner)
 08.04.2016 Arthur Grevias  System Security Tampering with the Delivery of Blocks and Transactions in Bitcoin Achermann, Reto (Nordsee)
 15.04.2016

Zaheer Chothia

  SG Realising real-time session reconstruction   Humbel, Lukas (Pizza)
 22.04.2016

Maciej Besta

  SG Accelerating Irregular Computations with HardwareTransactional Memory and Active Messages  Di Girolamo, Salvatore (Bagels)
 29.04.2016 Desislava Dimitrova  SG Program me a network  Schneider, Timo (Pasta)
 06.05.2016 David Cock  SG Litmus Testing at Rack Scale  Liagouris, John (Turkish Pizza)
 13.05.2016

Grzegorz Kwasniewski

  SG A PCIe Congestion-Aware Performance Model for Densely Populated Accelerator Servers

Makreshanski, Darko (Döner)
 20.05.2016 Muhsen Owaida  SG Database Acceleration on CPU-FPGA Shared Memory Platforms Grosser, Tobias (Bagels)
 27.05.2016 Philipp Miedl  TIK On the Capacity of Thermal Covert Channels in Multicores Besta, Maciej
 03.06.2016 Timo Schneider  SG   Owaida, Muhsen

 

Fall 2015


Time and Location

The lunch seminar is held every Friday from 12:15 to 13:15h at CAB E 72 (lunch provided at 12:00).

 

Lunch Seminar organizers:

Jonas Pfefferle, Moritz Hoffmann, Besmira Nushi, Tobias Grosser

 

The topic will be announced shortly before the talk.

Date Speaker Institute Topic Food

18.09.2015

Frank McSherry

SG

Differential Dataflow

Kaestle, Stefan (Pizza)

25.09.2015

Raychev Veselin

SPCL

Parallelizing User-Defined Aggregations using Symbolic Execution

Zellweger, Gerd

02.10.2015

Lucas Braun

SG

MTSQL - A Relational Algebra for Multi-Tenancy

Barthels, Claude (Bagels)

09.10.2015

Arijit Khan

SG

Querying Big-graphs - Streaming and Beyond

Marroquin, Renato  (Doner)

16.10.2015

5 Minute Madness

SG

Zsolt Istvan, Edgar Solomonik, David Sidler, Zaheer Chothia, Sabela Ramos, Grzegorz Kwasniewski

Sidler, David (PizzaLemon)

23.10.2015

Tobias Gysi

SPCL

STELLA: A Domain-specific Tool for Structured Grid Methods in Weather and Climate Models

Chothia, Zaheer (Hot Pasta)

30.10.2015

 

 

 

István, Zsolt (NordSee)

06.11.2015

Akhi Singhania

 

Unleashing the performance of 10G NICs

Mueller, Stefan (Bagels)

13.11.2015

Simon Gerber

SG

Cichlid: Explicit physical memory management for large machines

Shinde, Pravin (LebaneseWrap)

20.11.2015

Gerd Zellweger

SG

SpaceJMP: Programming with Multiple Virtual Address Spaces

Roy, Pratanu (PizzaDieci)

27.11.2015

Besmira Nushi

SG

Crowdsourcing Component-based Error Diagnosis of Intelligent Systems

Makreshanski, Darko (HotPasta)

04.12.2015

Pierre-Evariste Dagand

SG

 Programming with Streams

Giceva, Jana
(Nordsee)

11.12.2015

5 minute madness

 

 Desislava Dimitrova, Markus Pilman, Renato Marroquin, Moritz Hoffman, David Stolz, Timo Schneider

Gerber, Simon (Bagels)

18.12.2015

Jana Giceva

SG

Basslet: OS support for parallel data processing on modern multi-cores

Braun, Lucas