{"id":564666,"date":"2019-02-01T12:08:05","date_gmt":"2019-02-01T20:08:05","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.microsoft.com\/en-us\/research\/?post_type=msr-event&p=564666"},"modified":"2025-08-06T11:56:36","modified_gmt":"2025-08-06T18:56:36","slug":"nsdi-19","status":"publish","type":"msr-event","link":"https:\/\/www.microsoft.com\/en-us\/research\/event\/nsdi-19\/","title":{"rendered":"Microsoft Research @ NSDI ’19"},"content":{"rendered":"\n\n
Venue:<\/strong> Sheraton Boston (opens in new tab)<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n Event site:<\/strong> NSDI ’19 (opens in new tab)<\/span><\/a>Opens in a new tab<\/span><\/p>\n Microsoft is excited to be a Silver sponsor of the 16th USENIX Symposium on Networked Systems Design and Implementation (opens in new tab)<\/span><\/a>. NSDI ’19 focuses on the design principles, implementation, and practical evaluation of networked and distributed systems. The symposium provides a high-quality, single-track forum for presenting results and discussing ideas that further the knowledge and understanding of the networked systems community as a whole, continue a significant research dialog, or push the architectural boundaries of network services. Many of our researchers will be at NSDI and we encourage you to stop by our table in the exhibition area to learn about opportunities available at Microsoft.<\/p>\n Yongguang Zhang<\/a> received the USENIX Test of Time Award (opens in new tab)<\/span><\/a> for his paper, Sora: High Performance Software Radio Using General Purpose Multi-core Processors<\/a>, published in the\u00a0Proceedings of the 6th USENIX Symposium on Networked Systems Design and Implementation, April 2009 (opens in new tab)<\/span><\/a>. He co-authored it with Kun Tan, Jiansong Zhang, Ji Fang, He Liu, Yusheng Ye, Shen Wang, Haitao Wu, Wei Wang<\/a>, and Geoffrey M. Voelker.<\/p>\n Ranjita\u00a0Bhagwan<\/a> Jay Lorch<\/a> Opens in a new tab<\/span><\/p>\n 1:30 PM\u20133:10 PM | Modern Network Hardware<\/p>\n FreeFlow: Software-based Virtual RDMA Networking for Containerized Clouds (opens in new tab)<\/span><\/a> Direct Universal Access: Making Data Center Resources Available to FPGA (opens in new tab)<\/span><\/a> 3:40 PM\u20134:55 PM | Analytics<\/p>\n Hydra: a federated resource manager for data-center scale analytics (opens in new tab)<\/span><\/a> dShark: A General, Easy to Program and Scalable Framework for Analyzing In-network Packet Traces (opens in new tab)<\/span><\/a> 5:10 PM\u20136:25 PM | Data Center Network Architecture<\/p>\n Shoal: A Network Architecture for Disaggregated Racks (opens in new tab)<\/span><\/a> 3:40 PM\u20134:55 PM |\u00a0Improving Machine Learning<\/p>\n BLAS-on-flash: An Efficient Alternative for Large Scale ML Training and Inference? (opens in new tab)<\/span><\/a> Tiresias: A GPU Cluster Manager for Distributed Deep Learning (opens in new tab)<\/span><\/a> 8:30 AM\u201310:10 AM | Network Characterization<\/p>\n NetBouncer: Active Device and Link Failure Localization in Data Center Networks (opens in new tab)<\/span><\/a> Opens in a new tab<\/span><\/p>\n Hydra: a federated resource manager for data-center scale analytics (opens in new tab)<\/span><\/a> DeepEdge: A Network Edge for Deep Learning Workloads<\/strong> Shoal: A Network Architecture for Disaggregated Racks (opens in new tab)<\/span><\/a> Object Tracking with Battery-free WiFi-RFID Tags<\/strong> Opens in a new tab<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Microsoft is excited to be a Silver sponsor of the 16th USENIX Symposium on Networked Systems Design and Implementation. NSDI ’19 focuses on the design principles, implementation, and practical evaluation of networked and distributed systems.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"featured_media":564693,"template":"","meta":{"msr-url-field":"","msr-podcast-episode":"","msrModifiedDate":"","msrModifiedDateEnabled":false,"ep_exclude_from_search":false,"_classifai_error":"","msr_startdate":"2019-02-26","msr_enddate":"2019-02-28","msr_location":"Boston, Massachusetts, USA","msr_expirationdate":"","msr_event_recording_link":"","msr_event_link":"https:\/\/www.usenix.org\/conference\/nsdi19\/registration-information","msr_event_link_redirect":false,"msr_event_time":"","msr_hide_region":false,"msr_private_event":false,"msr_hide_image_in_river":0,"footnotes":""},"research-area":[13547],"msr-region":[197900],"msr-event-type":[197941],"msr-video-type":[],"msr-locale":[268875],"msr-program-audience":[],"msr-post-option":[],"msr-impact-theme":[],"class_list":["post-564666","msr-event","type-msr-event","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","msr-research-area-systems-and-networking","msr-region-north-america","msr-event-type-conferences","msr-locale-en_us"],"msr_about":"\n\n Venue:<\/strong> Sheraton Boston (opens in new tab)<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n Event site:<\/strong> NSDI ’19 (opens in new tab)<\/span><\/a>Opens in a new tab<\/span><\/p>\n Microsoft is excited to be a Silver sponsor of the 16th USENIX Symposium on Networked Systems Design and Implementation<\/a>. NSDI ’19 focuses on the design principles, implementation, and practical evaluation of networked and distributed systems. The symposium provides a high-quality, single-track forum for presenting results and discussing ideas that further the knowledge and understanding of the networked systems community as a whole, continue a significant research dialog, or push the architectural boundaries of network services. Many of our researchers will be at NSDI and we encourage you to stop by our table in the exhibition area to learn about opportunities available at Microsoft.<\/p>\n Yongguang Zhang<\/a> received the USENIX Test of Time Award<\/a> for his paper, Sora: High Performance Software Radio Using General Purpose Multi-core Processors<\/a>, published in the\u00a0Proceedings of the 6th USENIX Symposium on Networked Systems Design and Implementation, April 2009<\/a>. He co-authored it with Kun Tan, Jiansong Zhang, Ji Fang, He Liu, Yusheng Ye, Shen Wang, Haitao Wu, Wei Wang<\/a>, and Geoffrey M. Voelker.<\/p>\n Ranjita\u00a0Bhagwan<\/a> Jay Lorch<\/a> Opens in a new tab<\/span><\/p>\n 1:30 PM\u20133:10 PM | Modern Network Hardware<\/p>\n FreeFlow: Software-based Virtual RDMA Networking for Containerized Clouds (opens in new tab)<\/span><\/a> Direct Universal Access: Making Data Center Resources Available to FPGA (opens in new tab)<\/span><\/a> 3:40 PM\u20134:55 PM | Analytics<\/p>\n Hydra: a federated resource manager for data-center scale analytics (opens in new tab)<\/span><\/a> dShark: A General, Easy to Program and Scalable Framework for Analyzing In-network Packet Traces (opens in new tab)<\/span><\/a> 5:10 PM\u20136:25 PM | Data Center Network Architecture<\/p>\n Shoal: A Network Architecture for Disaggregated Racks (opens in new tab)<\/span><\/a> 3:40 PM\u20134:55 PM |\u00a0Improving Machine Learning<\/p>\n BLAS-on-flash: An Efficient Alternative for Large Scale ML Training and Inference? (opens in new tab)<\/span><\/a> Tiresias: A GPU Cluster Manager for Distributed Deep Learning (opens in new tab)<\/span><\/a> 8:30 AM\u201310:10 AM | Network Characterization<\/p>\n NetBouncer: Active Device and Link Failure Localization in Data Center Networks (opens in new tab)<\/span><\/a> Opens in a new tab<\/span><\/p>\n Hydra: a federated resource manager for data-center scale analytics<\/a> DeepEdge: A Network Edge for Deep Learning Workloads<\/strong> Shoal: A Network Architecture for Disaggregated Racks<\/a> Object Tracking with Battery-free WiFi-RFID Tags<\/strong> Opens in a new tab<\/span><\/p>\n","tab-content":[{"id":0,"name":"About","content":"Microsoft is excited to be a Silver sponsor of the 16th USENIX Symposium on Networked Systems Design and Implementation<\/a>. NSDI '19 focuses on the design principles, implementation, and practical evaluation of networked and distributed systems. The symposium provides a high-quality, single-track forum for presenting results and discussing ideas that further the knowledge and understanding of the networked systems community as a whole, continue a significant research dialog, or push the architectural boundaries of network services. Many of our researchers will be at NSDI and we encourage you to stop by our table in the exhibition area to learn about opportunities available at Microsoft.\r\n Yongguang Zhang<\/a> received the USENIX Test of Time Award<\/a> for his paper, Sora: High Performance Software Radio Using General Purpose Multi-core Processors<\/a>, published in the\u00a0Proceedings of the 6th USENIX Symposium on Networked Systems Design and Implementation, April 2009<\/a>. He co-authored it with Kun Tan, Jiansong Zhang, Ji Fang, He Liu, Yusheng Ye, Shen Wang, Haitao Wu, Wei Wang<\/a>, and Geoffrey M. Voelker.<\/p>\r\n\r\n Ranjita\u00a0Bhagwan<\/a>\r\nSrikanth\u00a0Kandula<\/a>\r\nJay Lorch<\/a>\u00a0(Program Chair)\r\nAmar\u00a0Phanishayee<\/a>\r\nIrene\u00a0Zhang<\/a><\/p>\r\n\r\n Jay Lorch<\/a>\r\nJitu Padhye<\/a>\r\nStefan Saroiu<\/a>\r\nChen Liu\r\nRan Shu<\/a>\r\nPeng Cheng<\/a>\r\nCarlo Curino<\/a>\r\nLihua Yuan\r\nTianrong Zhang\r\nLongfei Shangguan\r\nHimanshu Raj<\/a>\r\nYongguang Zhang<\/a>\r\nHarsha Simhadri<\/a>\r\nSteven French\r\nSuhas Jayaram Subramanya\r\nMidhul Vuppalapati\r\nBill Bolosky<\/a>\r\nTom Talpey\r\nDaniel Fay<\/a>\r\nKonstantinos Karanasos<\/a>\r\nIoan Stefanovici<\/a><\/p>"},{"id":1,"name":"Technical sessions","content":" FreeFlow: Software-based Virtual RDMA Networking for Containerized Clouds<\/a>\r\nDaehyeok Kim, Tianlong Yu, Hongqiang Harry Liu, Yibo Zhu, Jitu Padhye<\/a>,\u00a0Shachar Raindel<\/strong>, Chuanxiong Guo, Vyas Sekar, Srinivasan Seshan<\/p>\r\n Direct Universal Access: Making Data Center Resources Available to FPGA<\/a>\r\nRan Shu<\/a>,\u00a0Peng Cheng<\/a>, Guo Chen, Zhiyuan Guo<\/strong>, Lei Qu<\/strong>,\u00a0Yongqiang Xiong<\/a>, Derek Chiou<\/strong>,\u00a0Thomas Moscibroda<\/a><\/p>\r\n3:40 PM\u20134:55 PM | Analytics\r\nUSENIX Test of Time Award<\/h2>\n
Program Committee members<\/h2>\n
\nSrikanth\u00a0Kandula<\/a>
\nJay Lorch<\/a>\u00a0(Program Chair)
\nAmar\u00a0Phanishayee<\/a>
\nIrene\u00a0Zhang<\/a><\/p>\nMicrosoft attendees<\/h2>\n
\nJitu Padhye<\/a>
\nStefan Saroiu<\/a>
\nChen Liu
\nRan Shu<\/a>
\nPeng Cheng<\/a>
\nCarlo Curino<\/a>
\nLihua Yuan
\nTianrong Zhang
\nLongfei Shangguan
\nHimanshu Raj<\/a>
\nYongguang Zhang<\/a>
\nHarsha Simhadri<\/a>
\nSteven French
\nSuhas Jayaram Subramanya
\nMidhul Vuppalapati
\nBill Bolosky<\/a>
\nTom Talpey
\nDaniel Fay<\/a>
\nKonstantinos Karanasos<\/a>
\nIoan Stefanovici<\/a><\/p>\nInvited Speakers<\/h2>\n
Tuesday, February 26<\/h3>\n
\nDaehyeok Kim, Tianlong Yu, Hongqiang Harry Liu, Yibo Zhu, Jitu Padhye (opens in new tab)<\/span><\/a>,\u00a0Shachar Raindel<\/strong>, Chuanxiong Guo, Vyas Sekar, Srinivasan Seshan<\/p>\n
\nRan Shu (opens in new tab)<\/span><\/a>,\u00a0Peng Cheng (opens in new tab)<\/span><\/a>, Guo Chen, Zhiyuan Guo<\/strong>, Lei Qu<\/strong>,\u00a0Yongqiang Xiong (opens in new tab)<\/span><\/a>, Derek Chiou<\/strong>,\u00a0Thomas Moscibroda (opens in new tab)<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n
\nCarlo Curino (opens in new tab)<\/span><\/a>, Subru Krishnan<\/strong>,\u00a0Konstantinos Karanasos (opens in new tab)<\/span><\/a>, Sriram Rao, Giovanni M. Fumarola<\/strong>, Botong Huang, Kishore Chaliparambil<\/strong>, Arun Suresh, Young Chen<\/strong>, Solom Heddaya<\/strong>, Roni Burd, Sarvesh Sakalanaga<\/strong>, Chris Douglas<\/strong>, Bill Ramsey<\/strong>, Raghu Ramakrishnan<\/strong><\/p>\n
\nDa Yu, Yibo Zhu, Behnaz Arzani (opens in new tab)<\/span><\/a>, Rodrigo Fonseca, Tianrong Zhang<\/strong>, Karl Deng<\/strong>, Lihua Yuan<\/strong><\/p>\n
\nVishal Shrivastav, Asaf Valadarsky, Hitesh Ballani (opens in new tab)<\/span><\/a>,\u00a0Paolo Costa (opens in new tab)<\/span><\/a>, Ki Suh Lee, Han Wang, Rachit Agarwal, Hakim Weatherspoon<\/p>\nWednesday, February 27<\/h3>\n
\nSuhas Jayaram Subramanya<\/strong>,\u00a0Harsha Vardhan Simhadri (opens in new tab)<\/span><\/a>, Srajan Garg, Anil Kag<\/strong>,\u00a0Venkatesh Balasubramanian<\/strong><\/p>\n
\nJuncheng Gu, Mosharaf Chowdhury, Kang G. Shin, Yibo Zhu, Myeongjae Jeon<\/strong>, Junjie Qian<\/strong>, Hongqiang Liu, Chuanxiong Guo<\/p>\nThursday, February 28<\/h3>\n
\nCheng Tan, Ze Jin, Chuanxiong Guo, Tianrong Zhang<\/strong>, Haitao Wu, Karl Deng<\/strong>, Dongming Bi<\/strong>,\u00a0Dong Xiang<\/strong><\/p>\nWednesday, February 27 | 6:30 PM\u20138:00 PM<\/h3>\n
\nCarlo Curino<\/a>, Subru Krishnan<\/strong>,\u00a0Konstantinos Karanasos<\/a>, Sriram Rao, Giovanni M. Fumarola<\/strong>, Botong Huang, Kishore Chaliparambil<\/strong>, Arun Suresh, Young Chen<\/strong>, Solom Heddaya<\/strong>, Roni Burd, Sarvesh Sakalanaga<\/strong>, Chris Douglas<\/strong>, Bill Ramsey<\/strong>, Raghu Ramakrishnan<\/strong><\/p>\n
\nRahul Anand Sharma, Ranveer Chandra<\/strong><\/p>\n
\nVishal Shrivastav, Asaf Valadarsky, Hitesh Ballani<\/a>,\u00a0Paolo Costa<\/a>, Ki Suh Lee, Han Wang, Rachit Agarwal, Hakim Weatherspoon<\/p>\n
\nElahe Soltanaghaei, Bodhi Priyantha<\/strong>, Kamin Whitehouse<\/p>\nUSENIX Test of Time Award<\/h2>\n
Program Committee members<\/h2>\n
\nSrikanth\u00a0Kandula<\/a>
\nJay Lorch<\/a>\u00a0(Program Chair)
\nAmar\u00a0Phanishayee<\/a>
\nIrene\u00a0Zhang<\/a><\/p>\nMicrosoft attendees<\/h2>\n
\nJitu Padhye<\/a>
\nStefan Saroiu<\/a>
\nChen Liu
\nRan Shu<\/a>
\nPeng Cheng<\/a>
\nCarlo Curino<\/a>
\nLihua Yuan
\nTianrong Zhang
\nLongfei Shangguan
\nHimanshu Raj<\/a>
\nYongguang Zhang<\/a>
\nHarsha Simhadri<\/a>
\nSteven French
\nSuhas Jayaram Subramanya
\nMidhul Vuppalapati
\nBill Bolosky<\/a>
\nTom Talpey
\nDaniel Fay<\/a>
\nKonstantinos Karanasos<\/a>
\nIoan Stefanovici<\/a><\/p>\nInvited Speakers<\/h2>\n
Tuesday, February 26<\/h3>\n
\nDaehyeok Kim, Tianlong Yu, Hongqiang Harry Liu, Yibo Zhu, Jitu Padhye (opens in new tab)<\/span><\/a>,\u00a0Shachar Raindel<\/strong>, Chuanxiong Guo, Vyas Sekar, Srinivasan Seshan<\/p>\n
\nRan Shu (opens in new tab)<\/span><\/a>,\u00a0Peng Cheng (opens in new tab)<\/span><\/a>, Guo Chen, Zhiyuan Guo<\/strong>, Lei Qu<\/strong>,\u00a0Yongqiang Xiong (opens in new tab)<\/span><\/a>, Derek Chiou<\/strong>,\u00a0Thomas Moscibroda (opens in new tab)<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n
\nCarlo Curino (opens in new tab)<\/span><\/a>, Subru Krishnan<\/strong>,\u00a0Konstantinos Karanasos (opens in new tab)<\/span><\/a>, Sriram Rao, Giovanni M. Fumarola<\/strong>, Botong Huang, Kishore Chaliparambil<\/strong>, Arun Suresh, Young Chen<\/strong>, Solom Heddaya<\/strong>, Roni Burd, Sarvesh Sakalanaga<\/strong>, Chris Douglas<\/strong>, Bill Ramsey<\/strong>, Raghu Ramakrishnan<\/strong><\/p>\n
\nDa Yu, Yibo Zhu, Behnaz Arzani (opens in new tab)<\/span><\/a>, Rodrigo Fonseca, Tianrong Zhang<\/strong>, Karl Deng<\/strong>, Lihua Yuan<\/strong><\/p>\n
\nVishal Shrivastav, Asaf Valadarsky, Hitesh Ballani (opens in new tab)<\/span><\/a>,\u00a0Paolo Costa (opens in new tab)<\/span><\/a>, Ki Suh Lee, Han Wang, Rachit Agarwal, Hakim Weatherspoon<\/p>\nWednesday, February 27<\/h3>\n
\nSuhas Jayaram Subramanya<\/strong>,\u00a0Harsha Vardhan Simhadri (opens in new tab)<\/span><\/a>, Srajan Garg, Anil Kag<\/strong>,\u00a0Venkatesh Balasubramanian<\/strong><\/p>\n
\nJuncheng Gu, Mosharaf Chowdhury, Kang G. Shin, Yibo Zhu, Myeongjae Jeon<\/strong>, Junjie Qian<\/strong>, Hongqiang Liu, Chuanxiong Guo<\/p>\nThursday, February 28<\/h3>\n
\nCheng Tan, Ze Jin, Chuanxiong Guo, Tianrong Zhang<\/strong>, Haitao Wu, Karl Deng<\/strong>, Dongming Bi<\/strong>,\u00a0Dong Xiang<\/strong><\/p>\nWednesday, February 27 | 6:30 PM\u20138:00 PM<\/h3>\n
\nCarlo Curino<\/a>, Subru Krishnan<\/strong>,\u00a0Konstantinos Karanasos<\/a>, Sriram Rao, Giovanni M. Fumarola<\/strong>, Botong Huang, Kishore Chaliparambil<\/strong>, Arun Suresh, Young Chen<\/strong>, Solom Heddaya<\/strong>, Roni Burd, Sarvesh Sakalanaga<\/strong>, Chris Douglas<\/strong>, Bill Ramsey<\/strong>, Raghu Ramakrishnan<\/strong><\/p>\n
\nRahul Anand Sharma, Ranveer Chandra<\/strong><\/p>\n
\nVishal Shrivastav, Asaf Valadarsky, Hitesh Ballani<\/a>,\u00a0Paolo Costa<\/a>, Ki Suh Lee, Han Wang, Rachit Agarwal, Hakim Weatherspoon<\/p>\n
\nElahe Soltanaghaei, Bodhi Priyantha<\/strong>, Kamin Whitehouse<\/p>\nUSENIX Test of Time Award<\/h2>\r\n
Program Committee members<\/h2>\r\n
Microsoft attendees<\/h2>\r\n
Invited Speakers<\/h2>\r\n
Tuesday, February 26<\/h3>\r\n1:30 PM\u20133:10 PM | Modern Network Hardware\r\n