October 2009
Bianca Schroeder's research with Google in Computerworld [October 2009]: "Google: DRAMM error rates vastly higher than previously thought"
Bianca Schroeder on Slashdot [October 2009]: "Google Finds DRAM Errors More Common Than Believed"
August 2009
Graduate student Stratis Ioannidis in News@UofT [August 2009]: "Social network research nets U of T student big prize"
July 2009
Ioannidis Wins Second Place in ACM SRC Grand Finals
At this year's ACM Awards Banquet in San Diego, Stratis Ioannidis was awarded 2nd place (Graduate Category) in the ACM Student Research Competition (SRC) for his work "On the Distribution of Content Updates over a Mobile Social Network".
Stratis' work received the top honor for student research at ACM Mobicom 2008 conference in San Francisco, and he is one of the three graduate students who qualified for the ACM SRC Grand Finals at the awards dinner. Find more information on the ACM SRC here. Congratulations, Stratis!
June 2009
Bianca being awarded the best presentation award
Bianca Schroeder, with E. Pinheiro and W. D. Weber, won the Sigmetrics Best Presentation Award for "DRAM errors in the wild: A Large-Scale Field Study" at Sigmetrics/Performance 2009 in Seattle, WA.
April 2009
SnowFlock group wins Best Paper Award at EuroSys 2009
January 2009
Patchin Wins Cressy Award
Undergraduate student Philip Patchin, who is working with the SnowFlock research team, was named a recipient of the UofT's annual Cressy Award, which was given to 157 students from across the university. The Cressy Student Leadership Award is given to honour students who have made outstanding extra-curricular contributions to the university. See the article about this achievement here.
December 2008
CSNG Students Awarded Travel Grants for OSDI 2008
An impressively large number of CSNG students secured travel grants for the USENIX Symposium on Operating Systems Design and Implementation (OSDI). OSDI, one of the premier conferences in systems, was held in San Diego, California from December 7 to 11. Grant recipients included Roy Bryant, Andrés Lagar Cavilla, Philippa Gill, Ziyad Hatatet, Olga Irzak, Vivek Lakshmanan, Adin Scannell and Amin Tootoonchian.
First Annual CSNG Networking Competition
Student teams competed to download a few hundred mega bytes of data from a web server. The three winning teams were MK2 (Beombeyn Kim, Chiwoong Moon and Kyungwon Kwon), The Pings of Death (Ian Chan and George Foncea) and No Name (Kaveh Ghasemloo and Roy Brya). Find more information on the competition here.
November 2008
SnowFlock Project Releases Version 2.0
SnowFlock is a joint project between CSNG and the Computational Biology research groups, and is sponsored by NSERC, Platform Computing, the Ontario Innovation Trust and the Canada Foundation for Innovation. SnowFlock leverages virtual machine technology to enable high performance computing on cloud environments. The project team is pleased to announce the updated version is now available in binary and source code form and includes a queue of bugfixes such as exception handling in the control plane and mpi scalability. Find more nformation on SnowFlock here.
Systems and Networks Group Opens Lab to Department
On Tuesday, November 25, CSNG hosted the department's first research group Open House. Students, faculty and staff had the opportunity to see research on Operating Systems, Social Networking, Network Security, Mobile and Pervasive Computing, High-Performance Computing, and Wireless Networking. The Open House was a great success, giving the rest of the department a glimpse at some of the great work being done at CSNG.
CSNG Department Open House 2008
October 2008
Geoff Salmon, Monia Ghobadi and Yashar Ganjali Win Best Paper at IMC2008
September 2008
Graduate Student Stratis Ioannidis Wins First Place in the ACM Student Research Competition at Mobicom 2008
PhD candidate Stratis Ioannidis' work, "On the Distribution of Content Updates over a Mobile Social Network", received the top honour for student research at ACM's 14th Annual Mobicom 2008 in San Francisco this September. Stratis will now go on to compete in the ACM Student Research Competition Grand Finals with his work, which was originally developed during his internship at Thomson Research in Paris, France this past winter.
See more information on Mobicom, the Annual International Conference on Mobile Computing and Networking, here.
Phillipa Gill and Monia Ghobadi Awarded Travel Grant to IMC 2008
August 2008
Monia Ghobadi Awarded Travel Grant to ACM's SIGCOMM 2008
June 2008
Eyal de Lara Chairs Mobisys Conference 2008
May 2008
Monia Ghobadi Awarded Ontario Graduate Scholarship Award
April 2008
Ganjali, Saroiu and Koudas Awarded CFI Grants
This March, the Canada Foundation for Innovation (CFI) distributed $2.3 million in new funding to the UofT through CFI's Leaders Opportunity Fund. Two projects rewarded with grants are led by DCS faculty members. Yashar Ganjali's funding will help equip the Advance Packet Switch and Network Laboratory. In this lab, research is conducted on high performance packet switch and network systems, supporting research on data communication systems.
Stefan Saroiu and Nick Koudas' grant will fund the Social Information Systems Laboratory, which will house research projects aiming to create new Internet search and content delivery technology leveraging online social networks. CFI funding helps ensure that researchers have the necessary tools to conduct leading edge research.
To see the UofT announcement about the latest round of CFI grants, go here.
To see CFI's complete list of funded projects, go here.
March 2008
VMGL Project Recommended as the OpenGL Solution by KVM Wiki
VMGL is a project sponsored by NSERC, the Canada Foundation for Innovation, Google and the Ontario Innovation Trust. VMGL enables OpenGL apps running inside a Virtual Machine to take advantage of graphics hardware acceleration. Kernel-based Virtual Machine (KVM) is open source software; a full virtualization solution for Linux on x86 hardware. The VMGL project can be found on the KVM wiki here.
February 2008
Bianca Schroeder wins Best Paper at FAST 2008
Bianca's paper, "An Analysis of Data Corruption in the Storage Stack" won Best Student Paper at the 6th USENIX Conference on File and Storage
Technologies (FAST) in San Jose, California. See more information here.
January 2008
Yashar Ganjali Receives Cisco System's Research Award
Yashar received support from Cicsco for his work titled "Traffic Burstiness and Buffer Sizing in Internet Routers".
See Yashar's website here.
See Cisco's funding
announcement here.
