HotPower '09

Workshop on Power Aware Computing and Systems (HotPower '09)

October 10, 2009
Big Sky Resort
Big Sky, MT
Co-located with SOSP '09

HotPower 2009 Technical Program
(papers can be downloaded from the SIGOPS site)

Saturday, October 10
7:00 AM - 8:30 AM Breakfast
8:30 AM - 10:00 AM Session 1: Holistic Optimizations      
10:00 AM - 10:30 AM Break
10:30 AM - 11:30 AM Session 2: Energy Harvesting      
11:30 AM - 12:00 PM Poster introductions
12:00 PM - 1:30 PM Lunch
1:30 PM - 2:30 PM Session 3: Models and Algorithms      
2:30 PM - 3:30 PM Session 4: Poster Session      
3:30 PM - 4:30 PM Session 5: Architecture and Solution Tradeoffs      
4:30 PM - 5:00 PM Break
5:00 PM - 6:00 PM Session 6: Panel on Reality Checks for Energy Research      


Session 1: Holistic Optimizations       

Semantic-less Coordination of Power Management and Application Performance
Aman Kansal (Microsoft Research), Jie Liu (Microsoft Research), Abhishek Singh (Microsoft Corporation), Ripal Nathuj (Microsoft Corporation), and Tarek Abdelzaher (University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign)
On the Energy (In)efficiency of Hadoop Clusters
Jacob Leverich (Stanford University) and Christos Kozyrakis (Stanford University)
Energy Dumpster Diving
Maria Kazandjieva (Stanford University), Brandon Heller (Stanford University), Philip Levis (Stanford University), and Christos Kozyrakis (Stanford University)

Session 2: Energy Harvesting       

Towards Autonomousy-Powered CRFIDs
Shane Clark (University of Massachusetts Amherst), Jeremy Gummerson (University of Massachusetts Amherst), Kevin Fu (University of Massachusetts Amherst), and Deepak Ganesan (University of Massachusetts Amherst)
Some Joules Are More Precious Than Others: Managing Renewable Energy in the Datacenter
Chistopher Stewart (The Ohio State University), and Kai Shen (University of Rochester)

Session 3: Models and Algorithms       

Statistical Power Consumption and Analysis for GPU-based Computing
Xiaohan Ma (University of Houston), Mian Dong (Rice University), Lin Zhong (Rice University), and Zhigang Deng (University of Houston)
Cost- and Energy-Aware Load Distribution Across Data Centers
Kien Le (Rutgers University), Ricardo Bianchini (Rutgers University), Margaret Martonosi (Princeton University) and Thu D. Nguyen (Rutgers University)

Session 4: Poster Session       

RSSI Based Location-Aware PC Power Management
Zhong-Yi Jin (UCSD) and Rajesh Gupta (UCSD)
Space-shared and Frequency-scaling Based Task Scheduler for Many-Core OS
Andras Vajda (Ericsson)
An Energy Case for Hybrid Datacenters.
Byung-Gon Chun (Intel Research Berkeley), Gianluca Iannaccone (Intel Research Berkeley), Giuseppe Iannaccone (University of Pisa), Randy Katz (UC Berkeley), Gunho Lee (UC Berkeley), and Luca Niccolini (University of Pisa)
A Methodology for Generating Disk Drive Energy Models Using Performance Characteristics
Anthony Hylick (University of Cambridge) and Ripduman Sohan (University of Cambridge)
Towards Automated Building Management through Cooperative Sensor-actuator Networks
Kaisen Lin and Rajesh Gupta
pTop: A Process-level Power Profiling Tool
Thanh Do (Wayne State University), Suhib Rawshdeh (Wayne State University), and
Weisong Shi (Wayne State University)

Session 5: Architecture and Solution Tradeoffs       

Fluid NMR - Performing Power/Reliability Tradeoffs for Applications with Error Tolerance
John Satori (University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign), Joseph Sloan (University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign), and Rakesh Kumar (University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign)
Low-Power Amdahl-Balanced Blades for Data Intensive Computing
Alexander S. Szalay (Johns Hopkins University), Gordon Bell (Microsoft Research), H. Howie Huang (George Washington University), Andreas Terzis (Johns Hopkins University), and Alainna White (George Washington University)

Session 6: Panel       

Panel: Reality Checks for Energy Research
Trishul Chilimbi (Microsoft Research), Krisztian Flautner (ARM), Björn Hartmann (Stanford University)

Closing remarks and thanks