Agenda: BU Cloud Computing Workshop with IBM and Red Hat

Location: 15 St. Mary’s Street, EMB 105
February 14, 2020

8:30am-9:00am Breakfast and Registration

Time

Presenter

Talk Title

BU PI/Professor

Opening Session

9:00am-9:10am Ayse Coskun
Boston University
Welcome, Cloud Research at BU

9:10am-9:20am Orran Krieger
Boston University
Mass Open Cloud: Vision and Latest Updates
9:20am-9:30am Tamar Eliam
IBM
IBM Research Overview

Session 1: Hybrid Cloud

9:30am-9:40am Mandana Vaziri
IBM
Design and Implementation of Kubernetes Operators

9:40am-9:50am Sahil Tikale
Boston University/Red Hat Collaboration

Multi-Cloud Marketplace

David Starobinski (ECE) & Orran Krieger (ECE)
9:50am-10:00am Ugur Kaynar
Boston University/Red Hat Collaboration
Hybrid Cloud Storage

Orran Krieger (ECE)

10:00am-10:10am David Starobinski
Boston University
Strategic Management of Hybrid Cloud Services

David Starobinski (ECE)

10:10am-10:20am Martin Herbordt
Boston University/Red Hat Collaboration
OCT – FPGAs in the Open Cloud Testbed

Martin Herbordt (ECE)

10:20am-10:30am Discussion
10:30am-10:50am Coffee

Session 2: Cloud Operations and Operational Analytics

10:50am-11:00am Fabio Oliveira
IBM

Analytics-driven Canary Releases and A/B Testing with iter8

11:00am-11:10am Mert Toslali
Boston University/IBM Collaboration
Continuous Experimentation of Cloud Microservices Ayse Coskun (ECE)
11:10am-11:20am Jim Cadden
Boston University
Rapid Serverless Deployment Using Environment Snapshots Jonathan Appavoo (CS)
11:20am-11:30am Anthony Byrne
Boston University/IBM Collaboration
Discovering Cloud Software and Its Components Ayse Coskun (ECE)
11:30am-11:40am Emre Ates
Boston University/Red Hat Collaboration
A Just-in-Time Framework for Tracing Distributed Cloud Applications Ayse Coskun (ECE)
11:40am-11:50am Discussion
11:50am-12:00pm Vasiliki Kalavri & John Liagouris
Boston University
Lightning Talks from New Faculty
12:00pm-1:00pm Lunch: 8 St. Mary’s Street, 9th Floor, PHO West End Lounge
1:00pm-1:10pm Yannis Paschalidis
Boston University
Remarks from CISE Director

Session 3: Security and Privacy in the Cloud

1:10pm-1:20pm Gianluca Stringhini
Boston University
Measuring and Disrupting Malware Delivery Networks

Gianluca Stringhini (ECE)

1:20pm-1:30pm Adam Smith
Boston University
Differential Privacy and Applications to Cloud Adam Smith (CS)
1:30pm-1:40pm Alexander Bulekov
Boston University/Red Hat Collaboration
Hypervisor Security and Fuzzing Manuel Egele (ECE)
1:40pm-1:50pm James Bottomley
IBM
Container Security
1:50-2:00pm Mayank Varia
Boston University
Conclave Secure Computation Framework Mayank Varia (CS)
2:00-2:10pm Pierre-Francois Wolfe
Boston University/Red Hat Collaboration
Multiparty Computation in the Datacenter Martin Herbordt (ECE) & Mayank Varia (CS)
2:10pm-2:20pm Discussion
2:20pm-2:40pm Coffee

Session 4: Innovations in the OS for the Cloud

2:40pm-2:50pm Han Dong
Boston University/Red Hat Collaboration
Impact of OS Design and Hardware Configuration on the Power Performance Tradeoff Jonathan Appavoo (CS)
2:50pm-3:00pm Robert Munafo & Ahmed Sanaullah
Boston University and Red Hat Collaboration

HW OS and System Application Development for FPGAs in a Bump-in-the-Wire Configuration

Martin Herbordt (ECE)

3:00pm-3:10pm

Shahin Roozkhosh
Boston University

Shared Resource Management with Programmable Logic-in-the-Middle

Renato Mancuso (CS)

3:10pm-3:20pm

Ali Raza & Larry Woodman
Boston University and Red Hat Collaboration

Linux Unikernel Orran Krieger (ECE), Jonathan Appavoo (CS), & Renato Mancuso (CS)

3:20pm-3:30pm

Parul Sohal
Boston University/Red Hat Collaboration

Using Real-Time Techniques for Memory Bandwidth Control to Meet Cloud SLAs Renato Mancuso (CS)

3:30pm-3:40pm

Craig Einstein
Boston University/Red Hat Collaboration
Partitioning Hypervisors for Latency-Sensitive and Power-Aware Computing Rich West (CS)

3:40pm-4:25pm

Discussion & Networking
4:25pm-4:30pm Ayse Coskun
Boston University

Closing Remarks