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Selectively Taming Background Android Apps to Improve Battery Lifetime
be held unnecessarily. In this paper we instrument the Android OS to characterize background ...michele - December 12, 2021 - 2:44 am
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U-root: A Go-based, Firmware Embeddable Root File System with On-demand Compilation
Ronald G. Minnich, Google; Andrey Mirtchovski, Cisco U-root is an embeddable root file system intended to be placed in a FLASH device as part of the firmware image, along with a Linux kernel. The program source code is installed in the root file system ...michele - December 12, 2021 - 2:44 am
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Systematically Exploring the Behavior of Control Programs
Jason Croft, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign; Ratul Mahajan, Microsoft Research; Matthew Caesar, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign; Madan Musuvathi, Microsoft Research Many networked systems today, ranging from home automation ne ...michele - December 12, 2021 - 3:15 am
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Fence: Protecting Device Availability With Uniform Resource Control
policies across different resources. This paper shows how handling resources – e.g., CPU, memory, sockets, ...michele - December 12, 2021 - 3:15 am
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Surviving Peripheral Failures in Embedded Systems
largely leave the burden of tolerating peripheral failures to the programmer. This paper presents Phoenix, ...michele - December 12, 2021 - 3:15 am
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Log2: A Cost-Aware Logging Mechanism for Performance Diagnosis
overhead incurred by logging, without sacrificing the logging effectiveness. In this paper we propose Log ...michele - December 12, 2021 - 3:15 am
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GraphQ: Graph Query Processing with Abstraction Refinement—Scalable and Programmable Analytics over Very Large Graphs on a Single PC
California, Davis; Yu David Liu, SUNY at Binghamton This paper introduces GraphQ, a scalable querying ...michele - December 12, 2021 - 3:15 am
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GridGraph: Large-Scale Graph Processing on a Single Machine Using 2-Level Hierarchical Partitioning
Xiaowei Zhu, Wentao Han, and Wenguang Chen, Tsinghua University In this paper, we present ...michele - December 12, 2021 - 3:46 am
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Spartan: A Distributed Array Framework with Smart Tiling
locality is critical for high performance. This paper presents Spartan, a distributed array framework that ...michele - December 12, 2021 - 3:46 am
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Secure Deduplication of General Computations
memoizing and reusing computation results, they are insecure, not general, or slow. This paper presents ...michele - December 12, 2021 - 3:46 am
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SecPod: a Framework for Virtualization-based Security Systems
fundamentally conflicts with the recent advances in the hardware virtualization support. In this paper, we ...michele - December 12, 2021 - 3:46 am
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Shoal: Smart Allocation and Replication of Memory For Parallel Programs
Stefan Kaestle, Reto Achermann, and Timothy Roscoe, ETH Zürich; Tim Harris, Oracle Labs, Cambridge Modern NUMA multi-core machines exhibit complex latency and throughput characteristics, making it hard to allocate memory optimally for a given program’s ...michele - December 12, 2021 - 4:16 am
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NVMKV: A Scalable, Lightweight, FTL-aware Key-Value Store
Leonardo Marmol, Florida International University; Swaminathan Sundararaman and Nisha Talagala, SanDisk; Raju Rangaswami, Florida International University Key-value stores are ubiquitous in high performance data-intensive, scale out, and NoSQL enviro ...michele - December 12, 2021 - 4:16 am
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Lightweight Application-Level Crash Consistency on Transactional Flash Storage
Changwoo Min, Georgia Institute of Technology; Woon-Hak Kang, Sungkyunkwan University; Taesoo Kim, Georgia Institute of Technology; Sang-Won Lee and Young Ik Eom, Sungkyunkwan University Applications implement their own update protocols to ensure c ...michele - December 12, 2021 - 4:16 am
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Thread and Memory Placement on NUMA Systems: Asymmetry Matters
Simon Fraser University Awarded Best Paper! It is well known that the placement of threads and memory ...michele - December 12, 2021 - 4:16 am
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CDStore: Toward Reliable, Secure, and Cost-Efficient Cloud Storage via Convergent Dispersal
Mingqiang Li, Chuan Qin, and Patrick P. C. Lee, The Chinese University of Hong Kong We present CDStore, which disperses users’ backup data across multiple clouds and provides a unified multi-cloud storage solution with reliability, security, and cost eff ...michele - December 12, 2021 - 4:16 am
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Data Sharing or Resource Contention: Toward Performance Transparency on Multicore Systems
accessing shared data. In this paper, we demonstrate that information from low-cost hardware performance ...michele - December 12, 2021 - 4:16 am
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SpanFS: A Scalable File System on Fast Storage Devices
Junbin Kang, Benlong Zhang, Tianyu Wo, Weiren Yu, Lian Du, Shuai Ma, and Jinpeng Huai, Beihang University Most recent storage devices, such as NAND flash-based solid state drives (SSDs), provide low access latency and high degree of parallelism. However, ...michele - December 12, 2021 - 4:16 am
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Latency-Tolerant Software Distributed Shared Memory
Oskin, University of Washington Awarded Best Paper! We present Grappa, a modern take on software ...michele - December 12, 2021 - 4:16 am
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LAMA: Optimized Locality-aware Memory Allocation for Key-value Cache
adapt when the demand changes, a problem known as slab calcification. This paper introduces ... time. By evaluating LAMA using various industry and academic workloads, the paper shows that LAMA ...michele - December 12, 2021 - 4:16 am
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Utilizing the IOMMU Scalably
OSes experience performance meltdowns when using the IOMMU in such workloads. This paper explores ...michele - December 12, 2021 - 4:16 am
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LSM-trie: An LSM-tree-based Ultra-Large Key-Value Store for Small Data Items
Xingbo Wu and Yuehai Xu, Wayne State University; Zili Shao, The Hong Kong Polytechnic University; Song Jiang, Wayne State University Key-value (KV) stores have become a backbone of large- scale applications in today’s data centers. The data set of th ...michele - December 12, 2021 - 4:47 am
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MetaSync: File Synchronization Across Multiple Untrusted Storage Services
Seungyeop Han and Haichen Shen, University of Washington; Taesoo Kim, Georgia Institute of Technology; Arvind Krishnamurthy, Thomas Anderson, and David Wetherall, University of Washington Cloud-based file synchronization services, such as Dropbox, ar ...michele - December 12, 2021 - 4:47 am
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Request-Oriented Durable Write Caching for Application Performance
Sangwook Kim, Sungkyunkwan University; Hwanju Kim, University of Cambridge; Sang-Hoon Kim, Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology (KAIST); Joonwon Lee and Jinkyu Jeong, Sungkyunkwan University Non-volatile write cache (NVWC) can help to ...michele - December 12, 2021 - 4:47 am
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Tiered Replication: A Cost-effective Alternative to Full Cluster Geo-replication
geo-replication to protect against correlated failures. This paper presents a much lower cost alternative to full ... backup tier and is used to protect against correlated failures. The key insight of our paper is that, ...michele - December 12, 2021 - 4:47 am