Seminars

2020

A Peek into Snowflake’s Scalable Architecture

Dr Martin Hentschel & Dr Max Heimel
Snowflake
Online

Data Management on Non-Volatile Memory

Dr Joy Arulraj
Georgia Institute of Technology
Online

Making RPCs first class datacenter citizens

Dr Marios Kogias
Microsoft Research Cambridge
Online

Scaling Storage Engines

Dr Niv Dayan
Pliops
Online

2019

The Case for Network-Accelerated Query Processing

Alberto Lerner
University of Fribourg

2018

Columnstore and B+ tree - Are Hybrid Physical Designs Important?

Adam Dziedzic (University of Chicago)
SALC 6

High-Performance Computing Systems for Large-Scale Graph Analytics

Dr. Howie Huang
George Washington University
SALC5

System design principles for modern hardware and applications

Dr. Pramod Bhatotia
University of Edinburgh
Huxley 217

Building modern dataflow systems

Dr. Frank McSherry
ETH Zürich
Huxley 144

The Design of Functional Numerical Software

Dr. Richard Mortier
University of Cambridge
Huxley 217

CHERI - Architectural support for memory protection and compartmentalisation

Dr. Robert N. M. Watson
University of Cambridge
SALC 2

High-Performance Data Management Beyond DRAM

Victor Leis
TU Munich
Huxley 218

Distributed Query Processing on Thousands of Cores

Claude Barthels
ETH Zurich
Huxley 217

Deep reinforcement learning in computer systems

Michael Schaarschmidt
University of Cambridge
Huxley 217

2017

Cisco Meraki: Cloud Managed Networking at Scale

Dr. Mark Stillwell
Cisco Meraki
Huxley 217

IOStack: Software Defined Storage for Big DataIOStack: Software Defined Storage for Big Data

Prof. Pedro Garcia Lopez
University Rovira i Virgili (Spain)
Huxley 554

GAON: General-purpose Application Offload to Near-Network Processors

Prof. Mark Silberstein
Technion
HiPeds room, Sherfield Building

mbTLS: Secure Communication for More Than Two Parties

Christos Gkantsidis
Microsoft Research Cambridge
Huxley LT 311

Systems For Big Data Applications: A Networking Perspective

Noa Zilberman
Cambridge University
SALC6 Sherfield Building

2016

Ako: Decentralised Deep Learning with Partial Gradient Exchange

Pijika Watcharapichat
Imperial College London
Huxley Building, 218

Durability and Access Control for Scalable Distributed Filesystems

Stergios Anastasiadis
University of Ioannina, Greece
Huxley 218