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 ------------------------- * Early registration deadline: 23 April 2012 (http://www.regonline.com/builder/site/Default.aspx?EventID=1074740) * Workshop: 21 May 2012 Objective --------- 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 ---------------- 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 ------------------ Shimin Chen, HP Labs China (shimin.chen@hp.com) Stavros Harizopoulos, Nou Data (stavros@noudata.com) Program Committee ------------------ 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)