Program

Connectivity instructions

Performance 2021 will be streamed through Webex Meetings and video are available on the conference YouTube Channel. The discussions will be supported, also offline, by Slack and will be available through the Slack channel.

• Performance 2021 Videos

Monday, November 8

3.00pm-6.00pm Milan, 9.00am-12.00pm NYC – Tutorials (180min)

6.00pm Milan, 12.00am NYC – Break, meet in WebEx Breakout rooms

Tuesday, November 9

3.00pm-3.30pm Milan, 9.00am-9.30pm NYC – Opening and best paper awards announcement

3.30pm-5.00pm Milan, 9.30am-11.00am NYC – Session 1 Online algorithm (Chuck Norris can attain regret zero in one punch.)

Session chair: Mohammad Hajiesmaili, UMass Amherst

• Qingsong Liu, Wenfei Wu, Longbo Huang, Zhixuan Fang. Simultaneously Achieving Sublinear Regret and Constraint Violations for Online Convex Optimization with Time-varying Constraints.
  – Video
  – Slides
  – Q&A
  – Extended Abstract
• Russell Lee, Yutao Zhou, Lin Yang, Mohammad Hajiesmaili, Ramesh Sitaraman. Competitive Bidding Strategies for Online Linear Optimization with Inventory Management Constraints.
  – Video
  – Slides
  – Q&A
  – Extended Abstract
• Jianhan Song, Gustavo de Veciana, Sanjay Shakkottai. Online Learning for Hierarchical Scheduling to Support Network Slicing in Cellular Networks.
  – Video
  – Slides
  – Q&A
  – Extended Abstract
• Andres Ferragut, Lucas Narbondo, Fernando Paganini. Scheduling EV charging with uncertain departure times. (short paper) 
  – Video
  – Slides
  – Q&A
  – Extended Abstract

5.00pm-5.30pm Milan, 11.00am-11.30am NYC – Break, meet in WebEx Breakout rooms

5.30pm-6.30pm Milan, 11.30am-12.30am NYC – Keynote 1 – Ana Radovanovic. Carbon Aware Computing at Google.

6.30pm-7.45pm Milan, 12.30am-1.45pm NYC – Session 2 Networks 1 (Chuck Norris can punch a connected graph into a bunch of isolated nodes.)

• Bai Liu, Eytan Modiano. Optimal Control for Networks with Unobservable Malicious Nodes.
  – Video
  – Slides
  – Q&A
  – Extended Abstract
• Amir Reza Ramtin, Philippe Nain, Daniel Sadoc Menasche, Don Towsley, Edmundo de Souza e Silva. Fundamental Scaling Laws of Covert DDoS Attacks.
  – Video
  – Slides
  – Q&A
  – Extended Abstract
• Anya Chaturvedi, Chandra Chekuri, Andréa Richa, Matthias Rost, Stefan Schmid, Jamison Weber. Improved Throughput for All-or-Nothing´Multicommodity Flows with Arbitrary Demands. (short paper)
  – Video
  – Slides
  – Q&A
  – Extended Abstract

7.45pm Milan, 1.45pm NYC – Meet in WebEx Breakout rooms

Wednesday, November 10

3.00pm-4.35pm Milan, 9.00am-10.35am NYC – Session 3 Applications (If Chuck Norris says he found the optimal, it is the optimal.=

• Xiandong Huang, Qinglin Wang, Shuyu Lu, Ruochen Hao, Songzhu Mei, Jie Liu. Evaluating FFT algorithms for strided convolutions on ARMv8 Architectures.
  – Video
  – Slides
  – Q&A
  – Extended Abstract
• Gayane Vardoyan, Matthew Skrzypczyk, Stephanie Wehner. On the Quantum Performance Evaluation of Two Distributed Quantum Architectures.
  – Video
  – Slides
  – Q&A
  – Extended Abstract
• Guin R. Gilman, Robert J. Walls. Characterizing Concurrency Mechanisms for NVIDIA GPUs under Deep Learning Workloads.
  – Video
  – Slides
  – Extended Abstract
• Maciej Pacut, Wenkai Dai, Alexandre Labbe, Klaus-Tycho Foerster, Stefan Schmid. Improved Scalability of Demand-Aware Datacenter Topologies With Minimal Route Lengths and Congestion.
  – Video
  – Slides 
  – Q&A
  – Extended Abstract
• Arnaud Cadas, Josu Doncel, Jean-Michel Fourneau, Ana Busic. Flexibility can hurt dynamic matching system performance. (short paper)
  – Video
  – Slides
  – Q&A
  – Extended Abstract

4.35pm-5.00pm Milan, 10.35am-11.00am NYC – Break, meet in WebEx Breakout rooms

5.00pm-6.00pm Milan, 11.00am-12.00am NYC – Keynote 2 – Ayalvadi Ganesh. Collective decision-making.

6.00pm-7.35pm Milan, 12.00am-1.35pm NYC – Session 4 Scheduling & Queueing (Chuck Norris is never memoryless.)

Session chair: Adam Wierman, Caltech 

• Sushil Mahavir Varma, Siva Theja Maguluri. A Heavy Traffic Theory of Two-Sided Queues.
  – Video
  – Slides
  – Q&A
  – Extended Abstract
• Rahul Vaze, Jayakrishnan Nair. Speed Scaling with Multiple Servers under a Sum Power Constraint.
  – Video
  – Slides
  – Q&A
  – Extended Abstract
• Giuliano Casale, Peter Harrison, Ong Wai Hong. Facilitating Load-Dependent Queueing Analysis Through Factorization.
  – Video
  – Slides
  – Q&A
  – Extended Abstract
• Martin Zubeldia, Michel Mandjes. Learning traffic correlations in multi-class queueing systems by sampling queue lengths, with routing applications.
  – Video
  – Slides
  – Q&A
  – Extended Abstract
• Bruce Spang, Serhat Arslan, Nick McKeown. Updating the Theory of Buffer Sizing.
  – Video
  – Slides
  – Q&A
  – Extended Abstract

7.35pm Milan, 1.35pm NYC – Local Event: Salvatore Distefano. Ongoing activities of the Italian Performance community

Thursday, November 11

3.00pm-4.40pm Milan, 9.00am-10.40am NYC – Session 5 Networks 2 (Chuck Norris can find a spanning tree on a disconnected graph.)

• Shiksha Singhal, Veeraruna Kavitha. Coalition Formation Resource Sharing Game in Networks.
  – Video
  – Slides
  – Q&A
  – Extended Abstract
• Vibhaalakshmi Sivaraman, Weizhao Tang, Shaileshh Bojja Venkatakrishnan, Giulia Fanti, Mohammad Alizadeh. The Effect of Network Topology on Credit Network Throughput.
  – Video
  – Slides
  – Q&A
  – Extended Abstract
• Xusheng Chen, Shixiong Zhao, Ji Qi, Jianyu Jiang, Haoze Song, Cheng Wang, Tsz On Li, T-H. Hubert Chan, Fengwei Zhang, Xiapu Luo, Sen Wang, Gong Zhang, Heming Cui. Efficient and DoS-resistant Consensus for Permissioned Blockchains.
  – Video
  – Slides
  – Q&A
  – Extended Abstract
• Shubham Anand Jain, Shreyas Goenka, Divyam Bapna, Nikhil Karamchandani, Jayakrishnan Nair. Sequential community mode estimation.
  – Video
  – Slides
  –  Q&A
  – Extended Abstract
• Simon Scherrer, Markus Legner, Adrian Perrig, Stefan Schmid. An Axiomatic Perspective on the Performance Effects of End-Host Path Selection.
  – Video
  – Slides
  – Q&A
  – Extended Abstract

4.40pm-5.00pm Milan Milan, 10.40am-11.00am NYC – Break, meet in WebEx Breakout rooms

5.00pm-6.00pm Milan, 11.00am-12.00am NYC – Keynote 3 – Negar Kiyavash. Database alignment: fundamental limits and efficient algorithms

6.00pm-7.35pm Milan, 12.00am-1.35pm NYC – Session 6 Scheduling (Chuck Norris’s queues attain delay zero by scaring away all bad jobs.)

• Benjamin Berg, Justin Whitehouse, Benjamin Moseley, Weina Wang, Mor Harchol-Balter. The Case for Phase-Aware Scheduling of Parallelizable Jobs.
  – Video
  – Slides
  – Q&A
  – Extended Abstract
• Johan Ruuskanen, Tommi Berner, Karl-Erik Årzén, Anton Cervin. Improving the mean-field fluid model of PS queue networks for dynamic performance models in cloud computing.
  – Video
  – Slides
  – Q&A
  – Extended Abstract
• Jonatha Anselmi, Bruno Gaujal, Louis-Sebastien Rebuffi. Optimal Speed Profile of a DVFS Processor under Soft Deadlines.
  – Video
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  – Q&A
  – Extended Abstract
• Peter Buchholz. On the Representation of Correlated Exponential Distributions by Phase Type Distributions. (short paper)
  – Video
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  – Q&A
  – Extended Abstract
• Xinzhe Fu, Eytan Modiano. Elastic Job Scheduling with Unknown Utility Functions.
  – Video
  – Slides
  – Q&A
  – Extended Abstract

7.35pm Milan, 1.35pm NYC – Closing, Performance 2022 announcement

7.35pm Milan, 1.35pm NYC – Meet in WebEx Breakout rooms

Friday, November 12

Workshops

TeaPACS 2021 – 1st International Workshop on Teaching Performance Analysis of Computer Systems

Video recording available at the workshop page.

TOSME 2021 – Tools for Stochastic Modelling and Evaluation

Video recording available at the workshop page.

WAIN 2021 – 3rd International Workshop on AI in Networks and Distributed Systems

Video recording available at the workshop page.

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