FOCI Annual Symposium Schedule

Gates Commons, Paul G. Allen Center, UW

Oct 13, 2023

8:30 - 9:00

Breakfast

9:00 - 9:15

Introduction

Video

9:15 - 9:45

Keynote 1: 10 Lessons from a Decade of TPUs and ML's Carbon Footprint

Dave Patterson (Google)

Video

9:45 - 10:15

Keynote 2: Future of Cloud

Dave Maltz (Microsoft)

Video

10:15 - 10:35

Break

10:35 - 10:55

Future-proof Systems for Distributed ML

Stephanie Wang (UC Berkeley, Anyscale)

Video

10:55 - 11:15

Innovations in AWS Data Services

Sudipto Das (Amazon)

Video

11:15 - 12:15

Application Networking

Video

Section Introduction
Ratul Mahajan

Application-defined Networking
Xiangfeng Zhu

Can SmartNICs Accelerate RPCs?
Sam Kumar

SLA-based Datacenter Network Management
Kevin Zhao

12:15 - 1:15

Lunch

1:15 - 2:15

Energy

Video

EMPower: The Case for a Cloud Power Control Plane
Simon Peter

CXL-enabled Server Consolidation
Jonggyu Park

POLCA: Power Oversubscription for LLM Cloud Providers
Pratyush Patel

2:15 - 2:35

Break

2:35 - 3:35

Accelerator Clouds

Video

Session Introduction
Arvind Krishnamurthy

Beehive: A Modular Flexible Network Stack for Direct Attached Accelerators
Katie Lim

Efficient Direct-Connect Topologies for Collective Communications
Liangyu Zhao

Symphony: Optimized Model Serving using Centralized Orchestration
Lequn Chen

3:35 - 4:00

Hardware Reliability

Video

Modeling and Detecting Silent Data Corruptions in the Wild
Baris Kasikci and David Kohlbrenner

4:00 - 5:00

Reception & Posters