Eighth International Workshop on Data Management on New Hardware
                                (DaMoN 2012)

                     Colocated with SIGMOD/PODS 2012
                 Scottsdale, Arizona, USA, May 21, 2012
                   http://fusion.hpl.hp.com/damon2012/

Important Dates
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    * Early registration deadline: 23 April 2012 
      (http://www.regonline.com/builder/site/Default.aspx?EventID=1074740)

    * Workshop: 21 May 2012


Objective
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The aim of this one-day workshop is to bring together researchers who are
interested in optimizing database performance on modern computing
infrastructure by designing new data management techniques and tools.


Workshop Program
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10:15-10:20 DaMoN 2012 Welcome

10:20-11:35 Keynote (Prof. Steven Swanson from UCSD)

11:35-11:55 Paper Preview

11:55-13:15 Lunch

13:15-14:30 Paper Session I: CONCURRENCY

  * A Comparison of the Use of Virtual Versus Physical Snapshots for Supporting
    Update-Intensive Workloads
    Darius Sidlauskas (Aalborg University), Christian S. Jensen (Aarhus
    University), Simonas Saltenis (Aalborg University)

  * Reducing OLTP Instruction Misses Through Thread Migration
    Islam Atta (University of Toronto), Pinar Tozun (EPFL), Anastasia Ailamaki
    (EPFL), Andreas Moshovos (University of Toronto)

  * KISS-Tree: Smart Latch-Free In-Memory Indexing on Modern Architectures
    Thomas Kissinger, Benjamin Schlegel, Dirk Habich, Wolfgang Lehner
    (Technische Universitat Dresden) 

14:30-14:55 Coffee Break

14:55-15:45 Paper Session II: FLASH

  * Making Cost-Based Query Optimization Asymmetry-Aware
    Daniel Bausch, Ilia Petrov, Alejandro Buchmann (Technische Universitat
    Darmstadt)

  * Hathi: Durable Transactions for Memory using Flash
    Mohit Saxena (U. Wisconsin-Madison), Mehul A. Shah (Nou Data), Stavros
    Harizopoulos (Nou Data), Michael M. Swift (U. Wisconsin-Madison), Arif 
    Merchant (Google) 

15:45-16:15 Coffee Break

16:15-17:55 Paper Session III: GPU

  * Ameliorating Memory Contention of OLAP Operators on GPU Processors
    Evangelia A. Sitaridi, Kenneth A. Ross (Columbia University)

  * X-Device Query Processing by Bitwise Distribution
    Holger Pirk, Thibault Sellam, Stefan Manegold, Martin Kersten (CWI)

  * GPU Join Processing Revisited
    Tim Kaldewey (IBM Almaden Research), Guy Lohman (IBM Almaden Research),
    Rene Mueller (IBM Almaden Research), Peter Volk (Technische Universitat
    Dresden)

  * GiST Scan Acceleration using Coprocessors
    Felix Beier, Torsten Kilias, Kai-Uwe Sattler (Ilmenau University of
    Technology) 

17:55-18:15 Closing Remarks and Discussion: GPU Trends 


Workshop Co-Chairs
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    Shimin Chen, HP Labs China (shimin.chen@hp.com)
    Stavros Harizopoulos, Nou Data (stavros@noudata.com)


Program Committee
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    Phil Gibbons (Intel Labs)
    Nikos Hardavellas (Northwestern University)
    Qiong Luo (Hong Kong University of Science and Technology)
    Ryan Johnson (University of Toronto)
    Bongki Moon (University of Arizona)
    Ippokratis Pandis (IBM Research)
    Kenneth Ross (Columbia University)
    Eric Sedlar (Oracle Labs)