CS244b project presentations

Timing

Please prepare a 10-minute presentation and demo, which will leave 1-2 minutes for questions.

Venue and timing

Presentations will be in Gates 403. All students are encouraged to attend all presentations. Lunch will be served.

Saturday, June 8th

9:00am Remote Presentation 1

• ZOOM GoLFS: A Fault-tolerant Implementation of GFS in Golang. Tony Mu. code. paper

9:10am Consensus and Replication

• HotStuff: Implementation and Advice. Onkar Manik Deshpande, Gordon Martinez-Piedra, Ava Jih-Schiff, Soumya Chatterjee. code. paper

• Streamlet: Optimizations, Implementation and Benchmarks. Ben Auslin, Sheryl Hsu, Ankur Agarwal, Ertem Nusret Tas. code. paper

• Witness Paxos Made Possible. Matthew Joseph Mucklo, Riteshkumar Ashokkumar Singh, Vishnuswaroop Ramesh. code. paper

• Byzantine Fault-tolerant RAID-like Filesystem. Adrien Wu, Brandon Lou, Joe Tsai. code. paper

• Raftlet: A Byzantine Fault Tolerant Raft. Conner Takehana, Dylan Lim, Siddharth Sharma. code. paper

10:10am AI/ML

• Prophet: Speeding Up Distributed LLM Inference Latency via Length Perception. Schwinn Saereesitthipitak, Ashish Rao, Cathy Zhou, William Li. code. paper

• Training Through Failure: Effects of Data Consistency in Parallel Machine Learning Training. Ray Cao, Sherry Luo, Steve Gan, Sujeeth Jinesh. code. paper

• Towards Distributed Federated Learning with Differential Privacy. Young Chen, Ryan Cheng, Qi Han, Akshana Dassanaike-Perera. code. paper

• distributedGPT. Fabio Ibanez, Michael Nath. code. paper

• An Empirical Exploration of Distributed Training for Large Language Models. Lucas Bosman. code. paper

11:10am Developer Tools

• Distributed Futures with Mixed Worker-Scheduler Modes for Retrieval Augmented Generation. Aadhith Narayan Murugavel, Krish Vishal Agarwal, Masoud Charkhabi, Swarnim Vyas. code. paper

• Redstone: A Deterministic Simulation Testing Framework for Distributed Systems. Benjamin Friedman, Katherine Li, Matthew Mattei, Ron Dubinsky. code. paper

• Baby Ray: Re-implementing a distributed Python runtime in Go. Rodrigo Castellon, Trevor Leon, Isaac Aguilar, Russell Tran. code. paper

• Distributed Futures Executor in Rust. Colin Schultz. code. paper

• A Distributed Future System in Rust. Jacob Householder. code. paper

12:10pm Lunch

1:10pm Infrastructure and Debugging

• An Efficient Network Orchestrator for Compound Language Model Systems. Muhammad Shahir Abdurrahman. code. paper

• Distributed System for Enhanced Drug Discovery Through Molecular Docking. AkshatKumar Nigam. code. paper

• Carrot: A Distributed Interposition Library for Networking and File Systems. Ihyun Nam, Christopher Lawrence Marcelino Pondoc, Daniel Ma, Kamyar John Salahi. code. paper

• Distributed Tracing for IPFS. Haorui Guo, Sushant Kumar Gupta, Rachel Han, Marshall Miller. code1, code2. paper

• KiraraMQ: A Lightweight, Fault Tolerant and Distributed Message Queue. Zhemin Huang, Gavin Li, Ericka Liu, Yichun Qian. code. paper

2:10pm Databases

• Designing a distributed data store over bare-metal Raspberry Pi. Roshan Prabhakar, Maggie Sun. code. paper

• Rapid Recovery in Distributed Systems: Integrating Raft and Memcached for Frequent Leader Failures. John Finkelman. code. paper

• Orrery: A Deterministic Distributed NoSQL Database. Maximilien Cura. code. paper

• Nami: a partitioned, replicated, transactional KV store with optimistic concurrency control.. Lillian Ma, Juan Tamayo. code. paper

• TinyDFS: A Distributed File System Optimized for Sequential Read/Write Throughput. Zhenbang You, Zhiyu Xie. code. paper

3:10pm Break

3:40pm Remote presentations

• ZOOM Realtime anomaly detector. Rui Zhang. code. paper

• ZOOM Distributed Messaging Sytem. Anna Levenberg. code.

4:00pm Consistent Hashing and P2P systems

• Scalable Load Balanced Web Cache with Dynamic Consistent Hashing. Lovish Chopra, Neha Kunjal, MacVincent Agha-Oko. code. paper

• Scales: A Sharded Key-Value Store with CARP Hashing and Fault Tolerance. Raphael Ruban, Ari Webb, Daniel Zamoshchin. code. paper

• Web Cache with Consistent Hashing and Fault Tolerant Leader Election. Vrushank Gunjur, Andy Liang, Viraj Mehta, Pilli Cruz-De Jesus. code. paper

4:45pm Applications

• Local-based collaborative text editor using CRDT. Tianyi Cui. code. paper

• Concerto: Transaction-Parallel EVM. Yash Govil, Jeffrey Hu, Sumer Kohli, Stephen Su. code. paper

• Buoyant DNS: Using a Raft-Based Mechanism to Float DNS Infrastructure. Donovan Jasper, Yasmine Mitchell, Aditya Saligrama, Kelechi Uhegbu. code. paper

• Catamaran: A Raft-Based Fault-Tolerant and Distributed DNS Nameserver. Kamran Ahmed, Jeremy Kim, Hari Vallabhaneni, and Ruiqi Wang. code. paper

• Distributed LazIR Tag. Olayinka Adekola, Varun Desai, Zihao Ding, Pino Cholsaipant. code. paper