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"eBPF verification is untenable."
@Jinghao_J
will show that
#eBPF
safety has become a liability and discuss his Rust-based kernel extension framework to the rescue at
#HotOS
.
We used his system in cs423
@IllinoisCS
where students write Rust extensions instead of eBPF code.
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Relational Debugging is a new technique for debugging elusive performance problems by reasoning about relations between runtime events. Jenny
@xiang_jenny_ren
builds a relational debugger which diagnosed some of the hardest performance issues like Go-909 and MongoDB-57221.
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Yes! We recently increased graduate student stipends significantly at
@IllinoisCS
. It involved many rounds of discussions and hard work to pay our students more, with a healthy and sustainable financial plan and funding model. Very happy that everything works out!
.
@IllinoisCS
announced earlier that the compansation of its PhD students will be increased by ~29% (!!) effective in Aug. 2023. 😍🥲
#UIUC
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Story. I had an opportunity to sit in a physical PC meeting of a major conference as a scribe.
A paper was discussed. It received 5 Weak Accepts/Rejects; no champion; no hater. The decision was leaning to a rejection; the discussion lead commented, “it’s just too boring.” 1/5
@roopshasamanta
@mboehme_
Yup! When your paper can get rejected for reasons like "no one is excited about it", it's really got to do more with who is on the PC rather than your paper itself. Maybe the folks who would have liked your paper declined the PC invitation for some reason.
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WoW 16 papers (!!) of
@ASPLOSConf
2024 are authored or co-authored by
@IllinoisCS
and
@ECEILLINOIS
faculty and students from 9 research groups across 13 technical sessions.
What a powerhouse of multidisciplinary computer systems research at UIUC.
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Told my last joke in lab so the two maesters can fly
@IllinoisCS
. Maesters Parth Thakkar
@parth007_96
and Wenqing Luo
@wenqing_luo
will continue their research at Meta and Apple. What a priv! I learned so much from them and can't be more confident and excited about their success.
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YiFei is back in cs423
@IllinoisCS
, not as a student this time, but a guest lecturer! He is now working as a full-time kernel engineer at Google and he flies back to teach one of the most important skill sets he developed and valued in school -- Debugging (as a way of learning).
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Jiawei Liu (
@JiaweiLiu_
) presented his really cool work NNSmith for fuzzing deep learning compilers at
@IllinoisCS
Systems Reading Group. NNSmith has found 70+ bugs in TVM, TensorRT, ONNXRuntime, and PyTorch, leading to 50+ bug fixes. He'll present NNSmith at
@ASPLOSConf
on 3/27.
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When the first paper submission of a student gets rejected, it is always a tough experience. Everyone encounters failures in life, but sipping the bitterness of rejections on months of hard research and engineering effort is another level, especially for very junior students.
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Seokjoo Cho (
@seokjoo_cho
) presents his work on building ScaleCache, a scalable page cache for multiple SSDs at
@IllinoisCDS
Systems Research Seminar.
The work appears at EuroSys'24,
@seokjoo_cho
is a 1st-year PhD student advised by
@AishwaryaGanlat
and
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Xudong Sun (
@xu_dong_sun
) from
@IllinoisCS
gave a great talk for his work on building formally verified cluster management (like
#Kubernetes
) controllers towards provably correct cloud infra. The paper receives a Jay Lepreau best paper at
#OSDI
and is at
I'm thrilled to announce that our OSDI'24 paper "Anvil: Verifying Liveness of Cluster Management Controllers" gets the Jay Lepreau Best Paper Award. Congratulations to my teammates and thanks for the recognition. I will present it in today's "Formal Verification" session. (1/6)
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That day, that PC member became my hero. She is
@SaritaAdve
. She would never know (if still won't if she does not see this tweet) that she made such an influence on a random student who later became her colleague and who has also started to review papers. 5/5
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Packing for SOSP 2023 and find my old badge. Can't believe I've been in the business for more than 10 years!
@sospconf
btw The SOSP 2013 program is astonishing -- so many seminal and timeless papers that I can still read all day long today:
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The Acto team is ready for their
@sospconf
presentation!
@tylergu_jiawei
practiced the talk at
@IllinoisCS
Systems Reading group.
Acto is a "push-button" e2e testing tool for
#Kubernetes
operators. It has found 50+ bugs in many
#K8s
#Operators
.
Checkout:
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A great presence of
#SysNet
@IllinoisCS
at OSDI/ATC last week. 4 papers were presented by
@IllinoisCS
students and one received a Jay Lepreau Best Paper Award.
It's great to see alumni like
@happyandslow
, Cong and Yifan who continue to engage with OSDI/ATC after they graduate.
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Happy Spring Festival and Lunar New Year!!
Time to take a break from work (you deserve it) and spend time with family (they deserve it).
It has been a tough year, but we have gone through it. Let's wish a much better lunar year ahead!
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Extremely tough years for International students/faculty who have been away from family for so long.
Let's still celebrate and look forward. It'll be back to normal (hopefully soon) and we'll appreciate all the hard work we went through when looking back.
Happy Lunar New Year!!
Today marks the 7th Chinese New Year that I’m away from home; and I started my 3rd year of not seeing my family. It’s so tough that I somehow have to give up time with family to chase my dream in a foreign land. It’s something only foreign students know, and it’s almost cruel.
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"There's no failure in sports. There're only steps to success." So well said by Giannis.
Similarly, there's no failure in academia/research. There're only learning opportunities.
And, there's no failure in life either. There's only experience, which leads to characters.
There’s no denying Giannis came up short, but this response to “failure” was fascinating.
All parents should watch & show their kids.
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Yinfang Chen (
@yinfang_chen
) presented his work on Root Cause Analysis of Cloud Incidents via LLMs at
@IllinoisCS
Systems Reading Group. He did the work at
@MSFTResearch
Asia working with a large number of researchers and interns. He'll present the work at
@EuroSys_conf
2024.
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My friends and mentors all ask me to focus on work (precisely preparing a CAREER proposal), but seriously I can't concentrate when seeing people are killed, beaten, and mistreated. COVID-19 is very sad, but not even half as sad as seeing the recent craps.
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My colleague
@AishwaryaGanlat
received the NSF CAREER award!
I had the opportunity to read her proposal and the proposed research is incredibly deep and exciting! Yes, we'll have a future of fast, efficient, and reliable FT systems.
Read her interview,
Congratulations to
#ILLINOIS
computer science professor Aishwarya Ganesan for winning the NSF Career Award for her proposal focusing to bridge performance and reliability in fault-tolerant systems! 🎉
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YiFei Zhu from
@googlecloud
gave a CS423 guest lecture
@IllinoisCS
on Kernel Debugging.
His lecture is changed,
from
> Learning the Kernel by Debugging; It’s not just printf() & printk()
to
> Learning the Kernel by
#BPF
Tracing; Never use printk() for debugging again (almost)
This's our own YiFei from
@Google
. YiFei graduated from
@ECEILLINOIS
; he flies back every fall to help the CTF, all the way from the bay. That's how
@IllinoisCS
cs423 always has guest lectures by one of the best kernel hackers. YiFei hasn't changed much :)
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Xen is one of those work, when the HoF award was announced, everyone was surprised that it hadn't received it. It's a paper on student's reading list, course work, and exams. Long overdue and well deserved!
The 2023
@ACMSIGOPS
Hall of Fame award goes to the authors of the paper “Xen and the Art of Virtualization”. The paper was presented at
@sospconf
2003.
Congratulations to the authors! The award was announced at
@sospconf
#sosp2023
#award
#HallOfFame
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The PhD training is much beyond technical expertise. It's also about building the characters -- leadership (defining problems and building teams), grit, and mental toughness (and many more!) It has a lot in common with (thus benefit) entrepreneurship.
I really enjoyed my PhD.
Great observations, from one the first PhD graduates from my research group, about how pursuing a PhD prepares students for founding a start-up company.
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Xudong (
@xu_dong_sun
) is determined to an academic career that he reads
@vj_chidambaram
's handbook during the travel to a conference. luckily he told me that my advice is not too inconsistent with Vijay's :)
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An undergrad, a MS student, a PhD student, and an ass prof worked hard in lab on a Fri. night till the Sat. dawn.
Why?
Coz they made a mistake on the submission time. It turns out to be 7PM rather than 7AM (no wonder the grace period is so long!).
@hckuo2
@hsun_kai
@likusama1
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My view: If a lab drives students to suicide, it should be immediately stopped and heavily penalized, no matter whether its ISCA paper is true or fake.
Wow. Finally some news about this! Evidence found for everything alleged by the grad student who committed suicide. I hope there are heavy penalities all around, and not just slaps on wrists.
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2 papers by
@IllinoisCS
students will be presented
@EurosysConf
Session H "Bugs, Failures and Inconsistency" tmr.
@yinfang_chen
will present RCACopilot he did
@MSFTResearch
which takes advantages of LLMs for root cause analysis of cloud incidents.
Paper:
#EuroSys24
is officially beginning today in Athens, Greece!!! Take a look at the exciting lineup of talks here -
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Our own Jinghao Jia (
@Jinghao_J
) from
@IllinoisCS
will present his work on developing a kernel CFI enforcement mechanism using
#eBPF
at the
@ACMSIGCOMM
eBPF Workshop today (the "eBPF for Security" session). He did the work during his internship at
@IBMResearch
. Cool stuff!
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Update on Ivor Chen's case () In short, **Ivor will be reinstated, effective immediately.**
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Neil is on the academic job market. I know he'll impress folks with his research. But, let me say one more thing: Neil is among the kindest and most considerate person I've interacted with
@IllinoisCS
. I can't be more sure he'll be an excellent colleague and mentor for students.
Neil Zhao (
@zzrcxb
) presented his research on Side-Channel Attacks and Defenses in modern clouds at
@IllinoisCS
Systems Reading Group. He makes a convincing case that side-channel attacks are realistic in today's clous and discusses effective defenses. Truly impressive work!
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"Cross-System Interaction (CSI) Failure" -- the name suggests severity. Lilia Tang (
@liliatangxy
) showed that interactions between interdependent systems are among the most vulnerable regions in the cloud. She practiced her
@EuroSys_conf
talk at
@IllinoisCS
Systems Reading Group.
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I think some folks are constantly forgetting about the meaning of doing "research." Doing research is about helping people and making the world a better place, NOT about bean counting or finishing whatever deadlines.
As I struggled to deal with the impact of COVID on my family members in India, I got delayed by a day for submitting my reviews for a conference & I got a message from a senior reviewer with the blurb below. My humble request to everyone - pls don't say this to anyone ever! [1/n]
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`s/Michigan/UIUC`
I applied PhD programs twice (failed the first time). My PhD advisor gave me an offer the 2nd time (rejected me the 1st time) -- she told me that she valued perseverance more than talents (coz the former is more important than the latter in doing research).
I didn't get accepted to the CS PhD program at Michigan, I am a professor in the same department now. Don't give up
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Riccardo Paccagnella (
@ricpacca
) kicked off Systems Reading Group
@IllinoisCS
today presenting his incredibly exciting, impactful work on Software Security Challenges in the Era of Modern Hardware. (I was too focused and forgot pics...)
Checkout his work!
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Today
@IllinoisCS
Systems Reading Group, Tyler Gu
@tylergu_jiawei
discussed How to Fight Production Incidents of Cloud Services based on the award-winning paper at
@ACMSoCC
'23 from Microsoft. Tyler'll be interning at Microsoft Research this summer to fight cloud system failures.
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This made my day! Congratulations to
@geekprabhu
and
@Ali_Kherad
@Mubashi34304743
and the
@IllinoisCS
and
@LifeAtLUMS
team for the Best Paper Award!!
It's a true privilege to see so many creative 523/598 projects students developed over years! Many became great papers later.
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The best part of paper acceptance is to watch students celebrate remotely! What an encouragement!
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ASPLOS is considering 2 changes: 1) three submission ddls spread over the year, 2) allow papers to be revised and resubmitted.
Thanks for the great initiatives!
@JamesLarus
and the
@ASPLOSConf
steering committee!
Survey ("please read the article first"):
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It's frustrated to hear the potential review fraud at ASPLOS and the continuing coercion after Huixiang's incident. Such behavior, if it exists, has to be stopped and punished ASAP, for humanity, fairness, let alone science.
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We are officially a school now! 🏫
Announcing the
#ILLINOIS
Siebel School of Computing and Data Science at
@uofigrainger
made possible with a $50 MM gift from
@TomSiebel
.
With our
#5
in-the-nation computer science program and 21 blended degree programs, the best is yet to come! 🔸🔹
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We practiced our talk for
@IBM
Research Day at
@IllinoisCDS
Systems Research Seminar next week at
@IBMResearch
next week. Ready to discuss Operation Reliability from Tandem NonStop, to Recovery-Oriented Computing, to
#Kubernetes
operators in today's cloud system operations.
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According to
@George_Kurtz
, the
#CrowdStrike
incident is a classic Cross-System Interaction (CSI) failure. CSI failures are on the frontline of system reliability challenges. With the rapid increase of intricate (often opaque) interactions *across* interdependent systems,
EXCLUSIVE: CrowdStrike founder and CEO
@George_Kurtz
speaks on TODAY about the major computer outages worldwide that started earlier today: “We’re deeply sorry for the impact that we’ve caused to customers, to travelers, to anyone affected by this.”
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Debate on
@ASPLOSConf
-- Should everyone work on machine learning/AI? Yes or No?
@charith_mendis
and
@josep_torrellas
are on the Yes and No teams respectively LoL
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After 2 pandemic years, we finally have a SysNet Retreat today! All the SysNet faculty and grad students
@IllinoisCS
will spend a full day in Allerton Park discussing a wide variety of research projects from different groups, with a keynote, a faculty panel, and an ending hike.
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WoW We'll have a great showcase of System and Networking research from faculty and students
@IllinoisCS
@ECEILLINOIS
at
@usenix
NSDI'23! Five papers (!) across 4 tech sessions, ranging from Wireless, Internet-Scale Networks, to Testing and PHY Layer.
#NSDI
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I put some thoughts and experience of taking a stint in industry in an interview with FB.
@plfmse
faculty, Tianyin Xu (
@tianyin_xu
) is featured at
@Facebook
Academic of the Month. He shares his experience working at
@fb_engineering
, discusses the research projects, and offers advice for academics who wants to spend some time in the industry:
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/* RT's appreciated! */
We're recruiting in Systems at
@IllinoisCS
this year, with an emphasis on Cloud/Datacenter and Systems for AI/ML (we always interpret Systems broadly).
I'm co-leading the cloud/datacenter search. I'd love to chat if you're interested in the positions.
📢 We’re hiring tenure-track faculty positions at all levels! For more information about these opportunities see: .
🔗 Learn more about
#IllinoisCS
:
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Cathy Cai (
@Cat_overflow
) kicked off the
@IllinoisCDS
Systems Research Seminar this semester. She presented her work
@MSFTResearch
on Unifying Online Vector Similarity Search and Relational Queries via Relaxed Monotonicity and the VBASE system. The work is published at
#OSDI
'23.
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Congratulations to the 2023 Intel Rising Star Award winners! Very well deserved!
Great news for
@IllinoisCS
@uofigrainger
! So happy to see
@SaugataGhose
and our own Owolabi (now a professor
@CornellCIS
) being recognized! They're truly amazing!
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There's a brilliant undergraduate student in my class
@IllinoisCS
. In one of the OHs, I asked him which CS topic he's interested in. The answer was ML and NLP.
Today, I found he co-authored an NLP book which is published by O'Reilly.
I’m super excited to announce that my book, Applied Natural Language Processing in the Enterprise (published by
@OReillyMedia
), is now available! 📕🎉
Learn more at our website 👇
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Great time at the Mini-Retreat of the SysNet group
@IllinoisCS
with 50 students and 11 faculty in the Sunday evening, before the semester ends. It's super fun to hear all the cool projects during Speed Dating and chat with students in Research Life, with very delicious thai food.
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Definitely one of my most satisfying experiences at
@IllinoisCS
-- an undergrad student from
@ECEILLINOIS
in my 423 class implemented our research idea (published at
@MicroArchConf
) and upstreamed it to the Linux kernel. Thanks
@ibm_uiuc_c3sr
@ugresearch_UI
@NSF
for the support!
A team of researchers from the IBM-Illinois C3SR center have upstreamed their work on operating system (OS) security to the Linux kernel. The feature, named constant-action bitmaps, is yielding "a very nice speedup" for system-call security.
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Xudong Sun (
@xu_dong_sun
) presents the IronSpec paper from
@MichiganSystems
and discusses the reliability of formal specifications at
@IllinoisCDS
Systems Research Seminar. Great discussion on system verification research and the road ahead in practice.
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Now at
#LinuxPlumbers
,
@Jinghao_J
discusses how we could use
#eBPF
to enforce control flow integrity in the kernel.
Using eBPF avoids a kernel rebuild, but a new attachment mechanism may be needed to limit overhead.
Slides:
Stream:
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Today Siyuan (
@chai_siyuan
) kicked off the
@IllinoisCS
Systems Reading Group with a great discussion on TPP — Transparent Page Placement for CXL-Enabled Tiered-Memory (ASPLOS '23). We have a full house of 40+ students including a few undergrad researchers!
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In
@IllinoisCS
Systems Reading Group, Zijie Zhao (
@zzjas98
) and Wentao Zhang (
@somewentao
) discussed Silent Data Corruptions, silent errors manifested via corrupted program execution caused by silicon manufacturing defects based on a study from Alibaba Cloud. Great discussion!
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Xudong (
@xu_dong_sun
) will soon be on the job market. He is very determined to and well prepared for fundamental systems research on software correctness and reliability. If your department is hiring, give him a chance to show you his work and future plans.
#ILLINOIS
CS students Xudong Sun, Wenjie Ma, Jiawei Tyler Gu, Zicheng Ma, professor Tianyin Xu, and their collaborators received the USENIX OSDI ‘24 Jay Lepreau Best Paper Award.
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ASPLOS has decided to change to 3 deadlines per year, starting from 2023!
Great decision!
@ASPLOSConf
@JamesLarus
The
@ASPLOSConf
Steering Committee has decided to go forward with the change of three deadlines per year and the possibility of resubmitting a paper.
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My colleague Ram Alagappan received the well deserved NSF CAREER Award!
Ram's work is among the most exciting storage research I've learned over the years, which has already been revolutionizing storage for data centers.
Read his interview here,
Congrats,
#ILLINOIS
Computer Science professor Ram Alagappan, for receiving an NSF Career Award to revolutionize storage for data centers. 🔸🔹
He aims to transform data storage systems from conventional SSDs to a software-centric model.
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Haoran is on academic job market! Hire him if you're looking for brilliant colleagues who know *both* ML and Systems deeply.
He's an ML and Systems Rising Stars (by MLCommons) and is incredibly successful in building ML-driven systems. Checkout his work:
Haoran Qiu (
@Jamessss_Qiu
) presents his work on "Sustainable Cloud Computing: A Machine Learning Perspective" at
@IllinoisCS
Systems Research Seminar.
Haoran has done an impressive line of work on ML-based algorithm-system co-designs and their integrations in cloud systems.
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Students need helmets to move C code into safe Rust.
@Jinghao_J
@chinqrw
Ruowen is graduating this semester and is looking for a kernel developer job. Any such jobs available these days?
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Henry Zhu (
@makneee
) made his debut at
@IllinoisCS
Systems Reading Group (), discussing Partial Failures based on the award-winning paper from my academic brother
@ryanphuang
. Henry is a 1st year PhD student at
@IllinoisCS
, working with his three advisors.
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Going back to the reality. Now is the hardest part of a Dagstuhl seminar — processing hundreds of backlogged emails (many with “urgent” in titles…) and catching deadlines over the long night at Frankfurt Flughafen.
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Had a great time presenting the work on Correctness and Fault Tolerance of
#Kubernetes
Controllers at MPI-SWS Systems Seminar ().
Thanks
@lbindschaedler
and
@vaastav05
for organizing the seminar and giving every speaker a big box of Swiss chocolates.
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Sam Cheng (
@samccch
) presented his work on decomposing memory usage of distributed training jobs and using the decomposition for efficient GPU provisioning at
@ACMSoCC
.
Paper:
Sam is a PhD student
@IllinoisCS
; he did the work at his
@Meta
internship.
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Apparently I traveled 761 miles from Siebel Center to Gates Hall to walk along the Cascadilla Gorge waterfall. The Cornell campus is Gorges!
Apparently some people travel to see waterfalls. I pretty much walk out the door at Cornell and I'm there.
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Why some graduate programs force recommendation letters to be sent in Nov and early Dec?
It's hard to write thoughtful, substantive letters during the chaotic EOY period, and I wonder anyone even looks at PhD/MS applications before the new year (let alone making decisions).
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Look at who is on Illinois campus today 🙂
@tianyin_xu
Thanks for the grand tour and the Bubble tea!
#AlmaMater
@IllinoisCS
@ECEILLINOIS
#Kubernetes
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Systems research in China is incredibly well developed in past several years, with a strong community. In
#SOSP
2023, 2 of the 3 best papers are from Chinese institutes (SJTU and Nanjing U). It's great to see their annual workshop is already in its 25th and is well attended.
The ChinaSys (SIGOPS Chinese Chapter) has had their 25th Workshop a month ago. See a newsletter about the Keynotes, Rising Star Awards, and Dissertation Awards at the workshop,
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We HAVE TO stand up and speak out! We are losers if we can't protect our students.
What I would love to see happen:
Universities band together to say: asking international students to take in-person classes just to stay in the US is a terrible idea, and we will not do it. It imperils our students needlessly. We will challenge this in court.
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Tyler Gu (
@tylergu_jiawei
) gives a great presentation of the Acto project at the Reliability session
#SOSP2023
.
Thanks for the questions
@KonsKallas
@vaastav05
!
The Acto team is ready for their
@sospconf
presentation!
@tylergu_jiawei
practiced the talk at
@IllinoisCS
Systems Reading group.
Acto is a "push-button" e2e testing tool for
#Kubernetes
operators. It has found 50+ bugs in many
#K8s
#Operators
.
Checkout:
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Prof. Charith Mendis
@charith_mendis
came to
@IllinoisCS
Systems Research Seminar and shared his work on Making Compilers Evolvable with Learned Cost Models.
Amazing work; huge impact! The learned cost model is used by Google’s TPU compiler.
We're all happy learning
@indygupta
:)
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Without effective configuration testing, embarrassing and disastrous failures like
#CrowdStrike
will be repeated again and again.
> "CrowdStrike released a content configuration update... The sensor expected 20 input fields, while the update provided 21 input fields. The
This morning, we published the Root Cause Analysis (RCA) detailing the findings, mitigations and technical details of the July 19, 2024, Channel File 291 incident. We apologize unreservedly and will use the lessons learned from this incident to become more resilient and better
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Jovan Stojkovic (
@jovanvr1997
) presenting his research, "Chasing the Tail at Scale: Towards Cloud-Native Processor Architectures", at the Heidelberg Laureate Forum (
@HLForum
).
#HLF24
Jovan is a PhD student at
@IllinoisCDS
advised by
@josep_torrellas
()
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.
@canarypwn
becomes the 1st undergraduate student presenter at the
@IllinoisCS
Systems Reading Group ()!
He presented his work on building a scheduler for heterogeneous GPUs of an HPC cluster he helps operate at
@ShanghaiTechUni
.
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How can apps survive the wild west of cloud APIs?, where an innocent retry can be humiliated w/ an angry 409, or worse, a silent state corruption. Xudong (
@xu_dong_sun
) discussed the Rainmaker tool to help apps anticipate the myriad of errors at
@IllinoisCS
Systems Reading Group.
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Glad you enjoyed the paper,
@DominikTornow
! It's very important for us to hear folks like you who see the values. Research on expressiveness and programmability (or "developer experience" in modern words) often has a hard time publishing and is much less appreciated in academia,
Just read the incredible paper DepFast: Orchestrating Code of Quorum Systems.
Problem Statement
The authors tackle distributed consensus, focusing not on the mechanics but on enhancing the developer experience－a unique angle
Their Solution?
Coroutines. They introduce a
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This is a Michael Jordan Slam Dunk!
23 new faculty are joining
#IllinoisCS
, bringing expertise on topics ranging from online misbehavior to broadening participation in computing, climate forecasting to data-driven agriculture, human-robot interaction to machine learning, plus a lot more!
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@DominikTornow
Great question! We discussed it in a recent paper,
The downstream is responsible for doing retries, which can't be done w/o the right upstream APIs. Silent semantic violations and state divergence are really hard to deal with by the downstream alone.
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Doing a PhD is almost always a bad idea, if the value is measured by money making or youtube views...
btw CS PhD programs (at least
@IllinoisCS
) typically provide sufficient funding (stipend and tuition waiver) to help students not in debts of six figures...
The value of a PhD in 2024 is approaching $0.00
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Serverless doesn't need to be slow.
Jovan Stojkovic (
@jovanvr1997
) shows how to achieve high performance for serverless workloads by carefully multiplexing hardware resources across function invocations with MXFaaS.
@ISCAConfOrg
@IllinoisCS
Paper:
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Dimitrios's work on rethinking virtual memory translation has been chosen as a Best Paper at
@ASPLOSConf
! w/
@josep_torrellas
Watch the video, if you don't want to wait for your sequential page table walks; we make it fly with parallelism,
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Jiyuan Zhang (
@jiyuzh
) is ready for his
@ASPLOSConf
trip at SD! He practiced his talk on Direct Memory Translation (DMT)
@IllinoisCS
Systems Research Seminar. DMT is a HW-SW extension for x86-based virtual memory that minimizes address translation overhead in virtualized clouds.
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The Cross-System Interaction Failure team received a Gilles Muller Best Artifact Award at
#EuroSys23
!! Thanks
@liliatangxy
for representing the team at
@EuroSys_conf
in Rome and presenting the work.
#eurosys23
GILLES MULLER BEST ARTIFACT AWARD :
Fail through the Cracks: Cross-System Interaction Failures in Modern Cloud Systems
Lilia Tang, Chaitanya Bhandari (UIUC), Yongle Zhang (Purdue University), Anna Karanika, Shuyang Ji, Indranil Gupta, Tianyin Xu (UIUC)
Congrats!
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I can't be more grateful to the SE group, especially Darko and
@taoxiease
, who embraced me at Day 0, helped me w/ all kinds of stupid, difficult things to establish
@IllinoisCS
, and treated me so equally and respectfully. This's so special, as I'm not even from the SE community.
🏅
#ILLINOIS
CS PhD student Sam Cheng’s Distinguished Paper Award is one more example of what his co-adviser, Professor Darko Marinov, believes is the true strength of software engineering research.
🤝 A collaborative spirit that bolsters our work:
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Our brilliant Neil will be starting as an Assistant Professor at University of Texas Austin ECE in Fall 2025! (after his preabbatical at Nvidia)
@IllinoisCS
Excellent hire,
@utexasece
! Congrats on winning Neil!
// Neil told me there're turtles in Austin?! I'm so jealous!
Neil Zhao (
@zzrcxb
) presented his research on Side-Channel Attacks and Defenses in modern clouds at
@IllinoisCS
Systems Reading Group. He makes a convincing case that side-channel attacks are realistic in today's clous and discusses effective defenses. Truly impressive work!
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Sarthak Chakraborty (
@sarthak0407
) presented his work
@AdobeResearch
on developing an automatic root cause analysis for failures in microservices at the
@IllinoisCS
Systems Reading Group. It's a collaboration with our very own
@bagchi_saurabh
from
@PurdueECE
.
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Shinan Liu (
@shinan_liu
) from
@UChicagoCS
visited Champaign and presented his work on Operationalizing ML for Networks at
@IllinoisCS
Systems Research Seminar, hosted by
@BrightenGodfrey
. Shinan is doing exciting work on GenAI for Network Traces and ML-based Traffic Analysis.
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This is a good project with useful data points. Surprisingly, only
@IllinoisCS
has a positive dollar amount after fees & living, thanks to the low living cost. I know colleagues from many places are working on increasing student stipend and hope all students will be paid better.
Fellow PhDs! Let’s make our departments pay us a living wage!
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Pratik Sampat (
@pratikrsampat
) gave a guest lecture at
@IllinoisCS
CS 423 on Linux Schedulers!
He started from historical perspectives on the O(1) Scheduler (v2.4), to the O(N) Scheduler (v2.6), all the way to CFS, and the recent EEDVF Scheduler ().
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Chloe Alverti (
@chpoppins
) closes this semester's
@IllinoisCS
Systems Research Seminar with a wonderful talk on her DaxVM project. DaxVM provides fast, scalable mmap for PMem as low-latency storage. It has several influential designs for minimizing OS overhead for fast storage.
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Very honest, brave, and sharp article articulating how it looks like to be women in computer science today (and in tech in general). Thanks, Irene!
"Being a woman in tech is insane."
We really have to do much much much better.
"The Moral Implications of Being a Moderately Successful Computer Scientist and a Woman"
by Irene Zhang at SIGOPS Blog,
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I just deleted my rejected NSF proposal today. I sent it for 2 years, both rejected for 1) it was incremental and 2) I didn't discuss "DevOps" (FML). It dies coz all the proposed thrusts have been published (at FSE'20; OSDI'20; ICSE'21) and engineered out (w/ all code released).
@ipapapa
I don't mean to suggest that academic freedom never means you need to convince someone else (an agency, a benefactor) that our research is relevant to real problems. NSF grants are hard to get! but I've never felt my freedom to choose problems to be constrained by these concerns
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To folks who are hiring: Here are the great
@IllinoisCS
PhD students on the job market (it's a running list):
RT'll be appreciated.
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