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Multi-Hypervisor Virtual Machines: Enabling an Ecosystem of Hypervisor-level Services
Kartik Gopalan, Rohit Kugve, Hardik Bagdi, and Yaohui Hu, Binghamton University; Daniel Williams and Nilton Bila, IBM T.J. Watson Research Center Public cloud software marketplaces already offer users a wealth of choice in operating systems, database mana ...admin - December 7, 2021 - 9:27 am
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Unobtrusive Deferred Update Stabilization for Efficient Geo-Replication
Chathuri Gunawardhana, Manuel Bravo, and Luis Rodrigues, University of Lisbon In this paper, we ...admin - December 7, 2021 - 9:27 am
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Pricing Intra-Datacenter Networks with Over-Committed Bandwidth Guarantee
Jian Guo, Fangming Liu, and Tao Wang, Key Laboratory of Services Computing Technology and System, Ministry of Education, School of Computer Science and Technology, Huazhong University of Science and Technology; John C.S. Lui, The Chinese University of Hon ...admin - December 7, 2021 - 9:27 am
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SmartMD: A High Performance Deduplication Engine with Mixed Pages
Fan Guo, University of Science and Technology of China; Yongkun Li, University of Science and Technology of China; Collaborative Innovation Center of High Performance Computing, NUDT; Yinlong Xu, University of Science and Technology of China; Anhui Provin ...admin - December 7, 2021 - 9:58 am
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Improving File System Performance of Mobile Storage Systems Using a Decoupled Defragmenter
of Hong Kong; Jihong Kim, Seoul National University In this paper, we comprehensively investigate the ...admin - December 7, 2021 - 9:58 am
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High-Resolution Side Channels for Untrusted Operating Systems
Marcus Hähnel, TU Dresden, Operating Systems Group; Weidong Cui and Marcus Peinado, Microsoft Research Feature-rich mass-market operating systems have large trusted computing bases (TCBs) and a long history of vulnerabilities. Systems like Overshadow, Ink ...admin - December 7, 2021 - 9:58 am
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GPU Taint Tracking
Motivated by recent recognition of information leaking in GPU memory and GPU-resident malware, this paper ...admin - December 7, 2021 - 9:58 am
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Ending the Anomaly: Achieving Low Latency and Airtime Fairness in WiFi
Toke Høiland-Jørgensen, Karlstad University; Michał Kazior, Tieto Poland; Dave Täht, TekLibre; Per Hurtig and Anna Brunstrom, Karlstad University With more devices connected, delays and jitter at the WiFi hop become more prevalent, and correct functioning ...admin - December 7, 2021 - 9:58 am
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Log-Structured Non-Volatile Main Memory
barriers, since data is first written to a log and then to the main data store. In this paper, we present ...admin - December 7, 2021 - 9:58 am
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Towards Production-Run Heisenbugs Reproduction on Commercial Hardware
Shiyou Huang, Bowen Cai, and Jeff Huang, Texas A&M University We present a new technique, H3, for reproducing Heisenbugs in production runs on commercial hardware. H3 integrates the hardware control flow tracing capability provided in recent Intel pro ...admin - December 7, 2021 - 9:58 am
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Don't cry over spilled records: Memory elasticity of data-parallel applications and its application to cluster scheduling
significant practical importance but unfortunately has received only limited attention. This paper identifies, ... demonstrate the potential benefits of leveraging memory elasticity, this paper further explores its ...admin - December 7, 2021 - 9:58 am
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Scalable NUMA-aware Blocking Synchronization Primitives
Sanidhya Kashyap, Changwoo Min, and Taesoo Kim, Georgia Institute of Technology Application scalability is a critical aspect to efficiently use NUMA machines with many cores. To achieve that, various techniques ranging from task placement to data sharding ...admin - December 7, 2021 - 9:58 am
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CAB-Fuzz: Practical Concolic Testing Techniques for COTS Operating Systems
execution time. In this paper, we propose CAB-FUZZ (Context-Aware and Boundary-focused), a practical ...admin - December 7, 2021 - 9:58 am
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Falcon: Scaling IO Performance in Multi-SSD Volumes
Pradeep Kumar and H. Howie Huang, The George Washington University With the high throughput offered by solid-state drives (SSDs), multi-SSD volumes have become an attractive storage solution for big data applications. Unfortunately, the IO stack in curren ...admin - December 7, 2021 - 10:29 am
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Mercury: Bandwidth-Effective Prevention of Rollback Attacks Against Community Repositories
Trishank Karthik Kuppusamy, Vladimir Diaz, and Justin Cappos, New York University A popular community repository such as Docker Hub, PyPI, or RubyGems distributes tens of thousands of software projects to millions of users. The large number of projects an ...admin - December 7, 2021 - 10:29 am
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Fast and Precise Retrieval of Forward and Back Porting Information for Linux Device Drivers
task. In this paper, we propose two tools, Prequel and gcc-reduce, to help the developer collect the ...admin - December 7, 2021 - 10:29 am
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PARIX: Speculative Partial Writes in Erasure-Coded Systems
paper presents PARIX, a speculative partial write scheme for fast parity logging. We transform the ...admin - December 7, 2021 - 10:29 am
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Repair Pipelining for Erasure-Coded Storage
Runhui Li, Xiaolu Li, Patrick P. C. Lee, and Qun Huang, The Chinese University of Hong Kong We propose repair pipelining, a technique that speeds up the repair performance in general erasure-coded storage. By pipelining the repair of failed data in small- ...admin - December 7, 2021 - 10:29 am
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Lock-in-Pop: Securing Privileged Operating System Kernels by Keeping on the Beaten Path
paper, we propose a new security metric showing strong correlation between “popular paths” and kernel ...admin - December 7, 2021 - 10:29 am
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Glamdring: Automatic Application Partitioning for Intel SGX
Joshua Lind, Christian Priebe, Divya Muthukumaran, Dan O'Keeffe, Pierre-Louis Aublin, and Florian Kelbert, Imperial College London; Tobias Reiher, TU Dresden; David Goltzsche, TU Braunschweig; David Eyers, University of Otago; Rudiger Kapitza, TU Bra ...admin - December 7, 2021 - 10:29 am
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Octopus: an RDMA-enabled Distributed Persistent Memory File System
paper, we propose an RDMA-enabled distributed persistent memory file system, Octopus, to redesign file ...admin - December 7, 2021 - 10:29 am
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Garaph: Efficient GPU-accelerated Graph Processing on a Single Machine with Balanced Replication
a single machine. In this paper, we present Garaph, a GPU-accelerated graph processing system on a single ...admin - December 7, 2021 - 10:29 am
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Proactive error prediction to improve storage system reliability
Schroeder, University of Toronto This paper proposes the use of machine learning techniques to make storage ... in degraded mode, e.g. during RAID reconstruction. In this paper, we explore a range of different ...admin - December 7, 2021 - 10:29 am
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Everything you always wanted to know about multicore graph processing but were afraid to ask
Jasmina Malicevic, Baptiste Lepers and Willy Zwaenepoel, EPFL Awarded Best Paper! Graph processing ...admin - December 7, 2021 - 10:31 am
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Execution Templates: Caching Control Plane Decisions for Strong Scaling of Data Analytics
Omid Mashayekhi, Hang Qu, Chinmayee Shah, and Philip Levis, Stanford University Control planes of cloud frameworks trade off between scheduling granularity and performance. Centralized systems schedule at task granularity, but only schedule a few thousand ...admin - December 7, 2021 - 10:31 am