Date Thursday 20th October @ 14:00 – 15:00 (UK time) Presenter Prof. Syed Waqar Nabi Affiliation University of Glasgow Location Online link: https://welink.zhumu.com/j/189695019 Note: this is a talk open to the public. Abstract I will talk primarily about the work I did during my postdoc in the EPSRC funded “TyTra” project, which had the aim […]

Date Thursday 27th October @ 14:00 – 15:00 (UK time) Presenter Prof. Haris Volos Affiliation University of Cyprus Location Bayes center G.03 Online link: TBD Note: this is a talk open to the public. Abstract Persistent memory has emerged as a key persistence programming model for non-volatile memory technologies, such as Intel Optane Persistent Memory. […]

Date Thursday 22nd September @ 09:30 – 11:00 (UK time) Presenter Prof. Panagiota Fatourou Affiliation FORTH and University of Crete Location [Online] Meeting link: https://welink.zhumu.com/j/100950586 Note: this is a talk open to the public. Abstract This talk will present generic approaches for deriving recoverable synchronization algorithms, as well as recoverable implementations of many widely-used concurrent […]

Date Thursday 14th July @ 14:00 – 15:00 (UK time) Presenter Subarna Chatterjee Affiliation Harvard University Location [Online] Meeting link: https://welink.zhumu.com/j/159295680 Abstract We present a self-designing key-value storage engine, Cosine, which can take the shape of the close to “perfect” engine architecture given an input workload, a cloud budget, a target performance, and required cloud […]

Date Thursday 16th June @ 11:30 – 12:30 (UK time) Presenter Marios Kogias Affiliation Imperial Location [Physical] TBA [Online] Meeting link: https://welink.zhumu.com/j/218737227 Abstract Online services play a major role in our everyday life for communication, entertainment, socializing, e-commerce, etc. These services run inside datacenters under strict tail-latency service level objectives. The emergence of new hardware […]

Date Thursday 9 June @ 09:30 – 10:30 (UK time) Presenter Maciej Besta Affiliation ETH Zurich Location [Online] Meeting link: https://welink.zhumu.com/j/158022218   Abstract Graph neural networks (GNNs) are among the most powerful tools in deep learning. They routinely solve complex problems on unstructured networks, such as node classification, graph classification, or link prediction, with high […]

Date Tuesday 17 May @ 09:30 – 10:30 (UK time) Presenter Christina Giannoula Affiliation National Technical University of Athens (NTUA) Location [Online] Meeting link: https://welink.zhumu.com/j/149868852   Abstract Several manufacturers have already started to commercialize near-bank Processing-In-Memory (PIM) architectures, after decades of research efforts. Near-bank PIM architectures place simple cores close to DRAM banks. Recent research […]