Recent Publications
- 3Sigma: Distribution-based Cluster Scheduling for Runtime Uncertainty. Jun Woo Park, Alexey Tumanov, Angela Jiang, Michael A. Kozuch, Gregory R. Ganger. EuroSys ’18, April 23–26, 2018, Porto, Portugal. Supersedes CMU-PDL-17-107, Nov. 2017.
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- Tributary: Spot-dancing for elastic services with latency SLOs. Aaron Harlap, Andrew Chung, Alexey Tumanov, Gregory R. Ganger, Phillip B. Gibbons. Carnegie Mellon University Parallel Data Lab Technical Report CMU-PDL-18-102, Jan. 2018.
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- SlimDB: A Space-Efficient Key-Value Storage Engine For Semi-Sorted Data. Kai Ren, Qing Zheng, Joy Arulraj, Garth Gibson. Proceedings of the VLDB Endowment, Vol. 10, No. 13, 2017.
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- 3Sigma: Distribution-based cluster scheduling for runtime uncertainty. Jun Woo Park, Alexey Tumanov, Angela Jiang, Michael A. Kozuch, Gregory R. Ganger. Carnegie Mellon University Parallel Data Lab Technical Report CMU-PDL-17-107, November 2017.
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- Software-Defined Storage for Fast Trajectory Queries using a DeltaFS Indexed Massive Directory. Qing Zheng, George Amvrosiadis, Saurabh Kadekodi, Garth Gibson, Chuck Cranor, Brad Settlemyer, Gary Grider, Fan Guo. PDSW-DISCS 2017: 2nd Joint International Workshop on Parallel Data Storage and Data Intensive Scalable Computing Systems held in conjunction with SC17, Denver, CO, November 2017.
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- Aging Gracefully with Geriatrix: A File System Aging Tool. Saurabh Kadekodi, Vaishnavh Nagarajan, Garth A. Gibson. Carnegie Mellon University Parallel Data Lab Technical Report CMU-PDL-17-106, October 2017. Supersedes Carnegie Mellon University Parallel Data Lab Technical Report CMU-PDL-16-105. October, 2016.
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- A Case for Packing and Indexing in Cloud File Systems. Saurabh Kadekodi, Bin Fan, Adit Madan, Garth A. Gibson. Carnegie Mellon University Parallel Data Lab Technical Report CMU-PDL-17-105, October 2017.
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- Bigger, Longer, Fewer: What do cluster jobs look like outside Google? George Amvrosiadis, Jun Woo Park, Gregory R. Ganger, Garth A. Gibson, Elisabeth Baseman, Nathan DeBardeleben. Carnegie Mellon University Parallel Data Lab Technical Report CMU-PDL-17-104, October 2017.
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- Mosaic: A GPU Memory Manager with Application-Transparent Support for Multiple Page Sizes. Rachata Ausavarungnirun, Joshua Landgraf, Vance Miller, Saugata Ghose, Jayneel Gandhi, Christopher J. Rossbach & Onur Mutlu. Proc. of the International Symposium on Microarchitecture (MICRO), Cambridge, MA, October 2017.
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- Ambit: In-Memory Accelerator for Bulk Bitwise Operations Using Commodity DRAM Technology. Vivek Seshadri, Donghyuk Lee, Thomas Mullins, Hasan Hassan, Amirali Boroumand, Jeremie Kim, Michael A. Kozuch, Onur Mutlu, Phillip B. Gibbons & Todd C. Mowry. Proceedings of the 50th International Symposium on Microarchitecture (MICRO), Boston, MA, USA, October 2017.
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- Detecting and Mitigating Data-Dependent DRAM Failures by Exploiting Current Memory Content. Samira Khan, Chris Wilkerson, Zhe Wang, Alaa R. Alameldeen, Donghyuk Lee & Onur Mutlu. Proceedings of the 50th International Symposium on Microarchitecture (MICRO), Boston, MA, USA, October 2017.
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- WorkloadCompactor: Reducing datacenter cost while providing tail latency SLO guarantees. Timothy Zhu, Michael A. Kozuch & Mor Harchol-Balter. ACM Symposium on Cloud Computing (SoCC'17) , Santa Clara, Oct 2017.
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- Implicit Decomposition for Write-Efficient Connectivity Algorithms. Naama Ben-David, Guy E. Blelloch, Jeremy T. Fineman, Phillip B. Gibbons, Yan Gu, Charles McGuffey, and Julian Shun. 25th Annual European Symposium on Algorithms (ESA 2017), Vienna, Austria, from September 4 - 6, 2017.
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- Utility-Based Hybrid Memory Management. Yang Li, Saugata Ghose, Jongmoo Choi, Jin Sun, Hui Wang & Onur Mutlu. In Proc. of the IEEE Cluster Conference (CLUSTER), Honolulu, HI, September 2017.
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- A Better Model for Job Redundancy: Decoupling Server Slowdown and Job Size. Kristen Gardner, Mor Harchol-Balter, Alan Scheller-Wolf & Benny Van Houdt. Transactions on Networking, September 2017.
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- Error Characterization, Mitigation, and Recovery in Flash-Memory-Based Solid-State Drives. Yu Cai, Saugata Ghose, Erich F. Haratsch, Yixin Luo & Onur Mutlu. Proceedings of the IEEE Volume: 105, Issue: 9, Sept. 2017.
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- Workload Analysis and Caching Strategies for Search Advertising Systems. Conglong Li, David G. Andersen, Qiang Fu, Sameh Elnikety, Yuxiong He. SoCC ’17, September 24–27, 2017, Santa Clara, CA, USA.
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- Scheduling for Efficiency and Fairness in Systems with Redundancy. Kristen Gardner, Mor Harchol-Balter, Esa Hyyti & Rhonda Righter. Performance Evaluation, July 2017.
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- Litz: An Elastic Framework for High-Performance Distributed Machine Learning. Aurick Qiao, Abutalib Aghayev, Weiren Yu, Haoyang Chen, Qirong Ho, Garth A. Gibson, Eric P. Xing. Carnegie Mellon Univedrsity Parallel Data Laboratory Technical Report CMU-PDL-17-103. June 2017.
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- Cachier: Edge-caching for Recognition Applications. Utsav Drolia, Katherine Guo (Bell Labs), Jiaqi Tan, Rajeev Gandhi, Priya Narasimhan. The 37th IEEE International Conference on Distributed Computing Systems (ICDCS 2017), June 5 – 8, 2017, Atlanta, GA, USA.
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- Carpool: A Bufferless On-Chip Network Supporting Adaptive Multicast and Hotspot Alleviation. Xiyue Xiang, Wentao Shi, Saugata Ghose, Lu Peng, Onur Mutlu & Nian-Feng Tzeng. In Proc. of the International Conference on Supercomputing (ICS), Chicago, IL, June 2017.
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- Viyojit: Decoupling Battery and DRAM Capacities for Battery-Backed DRAM. Rajat Kateja, Anirudh Badam, Sriram Govindan, Bikash Sharma, Greg Ganger. ISCA ’17, June 24-28, 2017, Toronto, ON, Canada.
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- Understanding Reduced-Voltage Operation in Modern DRAM Devices: Experimental Characterization, Analysis, and Mechanisms. Kevin K. Chang, A. Giray Yaglikçi, Saugata Ghose, Aditya Agrawal, Niladrish Chatterjee, Abhijith Kashyap, Donghyuk Lee, Mike O’Connor, Hasan Hassan & Onur Mutlu. Proceedings of the ACM on Measurement and Analysis of Computing Systems (POMACS), Vol. 1, No. 1, June 2017.
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- Design-Induced Latency Variation in Modern DRAM Chips: Characterization, Analysis, and Latency Reduction Mechanisms. Donghyuk Lee, Samira Khan, Lavanya Subramanian, Saugata Ghose, Rachata Ausavarungnirun, Gennady Pekhimenko, Vivek Seshadri & Onur Mutlu. Proceedings of the ACM on Measurement and Analysis of Computing Systems (POMACS), Vol. 1, No. 1, June 2017.
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- Relaxed Operator Fusion for In-Memory Databases: Making Compilation, Vectorization, and Prefetching Work Together At Last. Prashanth Menon, Todd C. Mowry & Andrew Pavlo. Proceedings of the VLDB Endowment, Vol. 11, No. 1, 2017.
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- Efficient Redundancy Techniques for Latency Reduction in Cloud Systems. Gauri Joshi, Emina Soljanin & Gregory Wornell. ACM Transactions on Modeling and Performance Evaluation of Computing Systems (TOMPECS) Volume 2 Issue 2, May 2017.
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- Automatic Database Management System Tuning Through Large-scale Machine Learning. Dana Van Aken, Andrew Pavlo, Geoffrey J. Gordon, Bohan Zhang. ACM SIGMOD International Conference on Management of Data, May 14-19, 2017. Chicago, IL, USA.
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- Online Deduplication for Databases. Lianghong Xu, Andrew Pavlo, Sudipta Sengupta, Gregory R. Ganger. ACM SIGMOD International Conference on Management of Data, May 14-19, 2017.
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- Proteus: Agile ML Elasticity through Tiered Reliability in Dynamic Resource Markets. Aaron Harlap, Alexey Tumanov, Andrew Chung, Greg Ganger, Phil Gibbons. ACM European Conference on Computer Systems, 2017 (EuroSys'17), 23rd-26th April, 2017, Belgrade, Serbia. Supersedes Carnegie Mellon University Parallel Data Lab Technical Report CMU-PDL-16-102. May 2016.
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- An Empirical Evaluation of In-Memory Multi-Version Concurrency Control. Yingjun Wu, Joy Arulraj, Jiexi Lin, Ran Xian, Andrew Pavlo. Proceedings of the VLDB Endowment, vol. 10, iss. 7, pages. 781—792, March 2017.
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- AdaptSize: Orchestrating the Hot Object Memory Cache in a Content Delivery Network. Daniel S. Berger, Ramesh K. Sitaraman, Mor Harchol-Balter. 14th USENIX Symposium on Networked Systems Design and Implementation (NSDI '17). March 27–29, 2017, Boston, MA.
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- Improving the Reliability of Chip-off Forensic Analysis of NAND Flash Memory Devices. Aya Fukami, Saugata Ghose, Yixin Luo, Yu CaI, Onur Mutlu. DFRWS Digital Forensics Research Conference Europe (DFRWS EU), March 21 - 23, 2017 Lake Constance, Germany.
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- Gaia: Geo-Distributed Machine Learning Approaching LAN Speeds. Kevin Hsieh, Aaron Harlap, Nandita Vijaykumar, Dimitris Konomis, Gregory R. Ganger, Phillip B. Gibbons, Onur Mutlu. 14th USENIX Symposium on Networked Systems Design and Implementation (NSDI), March 27–29, 2017, Boston, MA.
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- Towards Edge-caching for Image Recognition. Utsav Drolia, Katherine Guo, Jiaqi Tan, Rajeev Gandhi, Priya Narasimhan. First Workshop on Smart Edge Computing and Networking (SmartEdge) '17, held in conjunction with PerCom 2017, March 13 - 17, 2017, Hawaii, USA.
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- Evolving Ext4 for Shingled Disks. Abutalib Aghayev, Theodore Ts’o, Garth Gibson, Peter Desnoyers. 15th USENIX Conference on File and Storage Technologies (FAST '17), Feb 27–Mar 2, 2017. Santa Clara, CA.
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- Vulnerabilities in MLC NAND Flash Memory Programming: Experimental Analysis, Exploits, and Mitigation Techniques. Yu Cai, Saugata Ghose, Yixin Luo, Ken Mai, Onur Mutlu, Erich F. Haratsch. 23rd IEEE Symposium on High Performance Computer Architecture, Industrial session, February 2017.
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- SoftMC: A Flexible and Practical Open-Source Infrastructure for Enabling Experimental DRAM Studies. Hasan Hassan,Nandita Vijaykumar, Samira Khan, Saugata Ghose, Kevin Chang, Gennady Pekhimenko, Donghyuk Lee, Oguz Ergin, Onur Mutlu. International Symposium on High-Performance Computer Architecture (HPCA), February 2017.
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- An Evaluation of Distributed Concurrency Control. Rachael Harding, Dana Van Aken, Andrew Pavlo, Michael Stonebraker. Proceedings of the VLDB Endowment, vol. 10, iss. 5, pages. 553—564, January 2017.
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- Self-Driving Database Management Systems. A. Pavlo, G. Angulo, J. Arulraj, H. Lin, J. Lin, L. Ma, P. Menon, T. Mowry, M. Perron, I. Quah, S. Santurkar, A. Tomasic, S. Toor, D. V. Aken, Z. Wang, Y. Wu, R. Xian, and T. Zhang. In CIDR 2017, Conference on Innovative Data Systems Research. January 8-11, 2017, Chaminade, CA.
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- Write-Behind Logging. J. Arulraj, M. Perron, A. Pavlo. Proc. VLDB Endow., vol. 10, pp. 337-348, December, 2016.
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- Prescriptive Safety-Checks through Automated Proofs for Control-Flow Integrity. Jiaqi Tan. Carnegie Mellon University Electrical and Computer Engineering PhD Dissertation, November 2016.
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- A Survey of Security Vulnerabilities in Bluetooth Low Energy Beacons. Hui Jun Tay, Jiaqi Tan, Priya Narasimhan. Carnegie Mellon University Parallel Data Lab Technical Report CMU-PDL-16-109. November 2016.
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- AUSPICE-R: Automatic Safety-Property Proofs for Realistic Features in Machine Code. Jiaqi Tan, Hui Jun Tay, Rajeev Gandhi, Priya Narasimhan.14th Asian Symposium on Programming Languages and Systems (APLAS), November 2016.
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- FaSST: Fast, Scalable and Simple Distributed Transactions with Two-sided (RDMA) Datagram RPCs. Anuj Kalia, Michael Kaminsky, David G. Andersen.12th USENIX Symposium on Operating Systems Design and Implementation November 2–4, 2016, Savannah, GA, USA.
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- Stateless Model Checking with Data-Race Preemption Points. Ben Blum, Garth Gibson. SPLASH 2016 OOPSLA, Oct 30 - Nov 4, 2016, Amsterdam, Netherlands.
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- MLtuner: System Support for Automatic Machine Learning Tuning. Henggang Cui, Gregory R. Ganger, and Phillip B. Gibbons. Carnegie Mellon University Parallel Data Lab Technical Report CMU-PDL-16-108, October 2016.
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- Aging Gracefully with Geriatrix: A File System Aging Suite. Saurabh Kadekodi, Vaishnavh Nagarajan, Garth A. Gibson. Carnegie Mellon University Parallel Data Lab Technical Report CMU-PDL-16-105. October, 2016.
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- Benchmarking Apache Spark with Machine Learning Applications. Jinliang Wei, Jin Kyu Kim, Garth A. Gibson. Carnegie Mellon University Parallel Data Lab Technical Report CMU-PDL-16-107 October 2016.
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- Zorua: A Holistic Approach to Resource Virtualization in GPUs. Nandita Vijaykumar, Kevin Hsieh, Gennady Pekhimenko, Samira Khan, Ashish Shrestha,Saugata Ghose, Adwait Jogu, Phillip B. Gibbons, Onur Mutlu. 49th IEEE/ACM International Symposium on Microarchitecture (MICRO’16), October 15-19, 2016, Taipei, Taiwan.
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- Principled Workflow-centric Tracing of Distributed Systems. Raja R. Sambasivan, Ilari Shafer, Jonathan Mace, Benjamin H. Sigelman, Rodrigo Fonseca, Gregory R. Ganger. ACM Symposium on Cloud Computing 2016 (SoCC ’16) October 5-7, 2016, Santa Clara, CA, USA.
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- SNC-Meister: Admitting More Tenants with Tail Latency SLOs. Timothy Zhu, Daniel S. Berger, Mor Harchol-Balter. SoCC ’16, October 05-07, 2016, Santa Clara, CA, USA.
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- A Model for Application Slowdown Estimation in On-Chip Networks and Its Use for Improving System Fairness and Performance. Xiyue Xiang, Saugata Ghose, Onur Mutlu, Nian-Feng Tzeng. International Conference on Computer Design (ICCD), October 3-5, 2016, Phoenix, USA.
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- Accelerating Pointer Chasing in 3D-Stacked Memory: Challenges, Mechanisms, Evaluation.Kevin Hsieh, Samira Khan, Nandita Vijaykumar, Kevin K. Chang, Amirali Boroumand, Saugata Ghose, Onur Mutlu. International Conference on Computer Design (ICCD), October 3-5, 2016, Phoenix, USA.
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- PCFIRE: Towards Provable Preventative Control-Flow Integrity Enforcement for Realistic Embedded Software. Jiaqi Tan, Hui Jun Tay, Utsav Drolia, Rajeev Gandhi, Priya Narasimhan. EMSOFT’16, October 01-07, 2016, Pittsburgh, PA, USA.
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- Poster Abstract: BUFS: Towards Bottom-Up Foundational Security for Software in the Internet-of-Things. Jiaqi Tan, Rajeev Gandhi, Priya Narasimhan. 1st IEEE/ACM Symposium on Edge Computing (SEC 2016), October 2016.
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- Addressing the Straggler Problem for Iterative Convergent Parallel ML. Aaron Harlap, Henggang Cui, Wei Dai, Jinliang Wei Gregory R. Ganger, Phillip B. Gibbons, Garth A. Gibson, Eric P. Xing. ACM Symposium on Cloud Computing 2016. Oct 5-7, Santa Clara. CA. Supersedes Carnegie Mellon University Parallel Data Laboratory Technical Report CMU-PDL-15-102, April 2015.
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- μC-States: Fine-grained GPU Datapath Power Management. Onur Kayıran, Adwait Jog, Ashutosh Pattnaik, Rachata Ausavarungnirun, Xulong Tang, Mahmut T. Kandemir, Gabriel H. Loh, Onur Mutlu, Chita R. Das. Proceedings of the The 25th International Conference on Parallel Architectures and Compilation Techniques (PACT 2016), Haifa, Israel, September 2016.
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- Online Deduplication for Distributed Databases. Lianghong Xu. Ph.D. Dissertation, Carnegie Mellon University, Electrical and Computer Engineering, September 2016.
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- JamaisVu: Robust Scheduling with Auto-Estimated Job Runtimes. Alexey Tumanov, Angela Jiang, Jun Woo Park, Michael A. Kozuch, Gregory R. Ganger. Carnegie Mellon University Parallel Data Lab Technical Report CMU-PDL-16-104. September 2016.
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- A Better Model for Job Redundancy: Decoupling Server Slowdown and Job Size Kristen Gardner, Mor Harchol-Balter, Alan Scheller-Wolf. IEEE Modeling, Analysis and Simulation of Computer and Telecommunication Systems (MASCOTS 2016), London, UK, September 2016.
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- Soundness Proofs for Iterative Deepening. Ben Blum. Carnegie Mellon University Parallel Data Lab Technical Report CMU-PDL-16-103, September 6, 2016.
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- Efficient Algorithms with Asymmetric Read and Write Costs. Guy E Blelloch, Jeremy T Fineman, Phillip B Gibbons, Yan Gu, Julian Shun. 24th European Symposium on Algorithms (ESA’16). August, 2016.
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- Parallel Algorithms for Asymmetric Read-Write Costs. Naama Ben-David, Guy E. Blelloch, Jeremy T. Fineman, Phillip B. Gibbons, Yan Gu, Charles McGuffey, Julian Shun. 28th ACM Symposium on Parallelism in Algorithms and Architectures Jul 11, 2016 - Jul 13, 2016. Asilomar State Beach, California, USA.
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- Larger-than-Memory Data Management on Modern Storage Hardware for In-Memory OLTP Database Systems. Lin Ma, Joy Arulraj, Sam Zhao, Andrew Pavlo, Subramanya R. Dulloor, Michael J. Giardino, Jeff Parkhurst, Jason L. Gardner, Kshitij Dosh*, Col. Stanley Zdonik. DaMoN’16, June 26-July 01 2016, San Francisco, CA, USA.
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- Bridging the Archipelago between Row-Stores and Column-Stores for Hybrid Workloads. Joy Arulraj, Andrew Pavlo, Prashanth Menon. SIGMOD’16, June 26-July 01, 2016, San Francisco, CA, USA.
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- PARBOR: An Efficient System-Level Technique to Detect Data-Dependent Failures in DRAM. Samira Khan, Donghyuk Lee, Onur Mutlu. Proceedings of the 45th Annual IEEE/IFIP International Conference on Dependable Systems and Networks (DSN), Toulouse, France, June 28 - July 1 2016.
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- Transparent Offloading and Mapping (TOM): Enabling Programmer-Transparent Near-Data Processing in GPU Systems. Kevin Hsieh, Eiman Ebrahimi, Gwangsun Kim, Niladrish Chatterjee, Mike O'Connor, Nandita Vijaykumar, Onur Mutlu§, Stephen W. Keckler. Proceedings of the 43rd International Symposium on Computer Architecture (ISCA), Seoul, South Korea, June 18 - 22, 2016.
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- Understanding Latency Variation in Modern DRAM Chips: Experimental Characterization, Analysis, and Optimization. Kevin K. Chang, Abhijith Kashyap, Hasan Hassan, Saugata Ghose, Kevin Hsieh, Donghyuk Lee, Tianshi Li, Gennady Pekhimenko, Samira Khan, Onur Mutlu. Proceedings of the ACM International Conference on Measurement and Modeling of Computer Systems (SIGMETRICS), Antibes Juan-Les-Pins, France, June 14 - 18, 2016.
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- Design Guidelines for High Performance RDMA Systems. Anuj Kalia, Michael Kaminsky, David G. Andersen. 2016 USENIX Annual Technical Conference (USENIX ATC'16), June 2016.
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- Reducing the Storage Overhead of Main-Memory OLTP Databases with Hybrid Indexes. Huanchen Zhang, Andy Pavlo, David G. Andersen, Michael Kaminsky, Lin Ma, Rui Shen. ACM SIGMOD International Conference on Management of Data 2016 (SIGMOD'16), June 2016.
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- Achieving One Billion Key-Value Requests Per Second on a Single Server. Sheng Li, Hyeontaek Lim, Victor Lee, Jung Ho Ahn, Anuj Kalia, Michael Kaminsky, David G. Andersen, Seongil O, Sukhan Lee, Pradeep Dubey. IEEE Micro's Top Picks from the Computer Architecture Conferences 2016, May/June 2016. Top Picks 2016 Award!
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- A Case for Hierarchical Rings with Deflection Routing: An energy-efficient on-chip communication substrate. Rachata Ausavarungnirun, Chris Fallin, Xiangyao Yu, Kevin Kai-Wei Chang, Greg Nazario, Reetuparna Das, Gabriel H. Loh, Onur Mutlu, Parallel Computing, Volume 54, May 2016, Pages 29-45, ISSN 0167-8191.
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- TierML: Using Tiers of Reliability for Agile Elasticity in Machine Learning. Aaron Harlap, Gregory R. Ganger, Phillip B. Gibbons. Carnegie Mellon University Parallel Data Lab Technical Report CMU-PDL-16-102. May 2016.
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- Similarity-based Deduplication for Databases. Lianghong Xu, Andrew Pavlo, Sudipta Sengupta, Gregory R. Ganger. Carnegie Mellon University Parallel Data Lab Technical Report CMU-PDL-16-101, April 2016.
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- GeePS: Scalable Deep Learning on Distributed GPUs with a GPU-Specialized Parameter Server. Henggang Cui, Hao Zhang, Gregory R. Ganger, Phillip B. Gibbons, and Eric P. Xing. ACM European Conference on Computer Systems, 2016 (EuroSys'16), 18th-21st April, 2016, London, UK.
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- TetriSched: Global Rescheduling with Adaptive Plan-ahead in Dynamic Heterogeneous Clusters. Alexey Tumanov, Timothy Zhu, Jun Woo Park, Michael A. Kozuch, Mor Harchol-Balter, Gregory R. Ganger. ACM European Conference on Computer Systems, 2016 (EuroSys'16), 18th-21st April, 2016, London, UK.
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- STRADS: A Distributed Framework for Scheduled Model Parallel Machine Learning. Jin Kyu Kim, Qirong Ho, Seunghak Lee, Xun Zheng, Wei Dai, Garth A. Gibson, Eric P. Xing. ACM European Conference on Computer Systems, 2016 (EuroSys'16), 18th-21st April, 2016, London, UK.
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- Full-Stack Architecting to Achieve a Billion Requests Per Second Throughput on a Single Key-Value Store Server Platform. Sheng Li, Hyeontaek Lim, Victor Lee, Jung Ho Ahn, Anuj Kalia, Michael Kaminsky, David G. Andersen, Seongil O, Sukhan Lee, Pradeep Dubey. ACM Transactions on Computer Systems (TOCS), Vol. 34, No. 2, April 2016.
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- ChargeCache: Reducing DRAM Latency by Exploiting Row Access Locality. Hasan Hassan, Gennady Pekhimenko, Nandita Vijaykumar Vivek Seshadri, Donghyuk Lee, Oguz Ergin, Onur Mutlu. Proceedings of the 22nd International Symposium on High-Performance Computer Architecture (HPCA), Barcelona, Spain, March 2016.
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- Be Fast, Cheap and in Control with SwitchKV. Xiaozhou Li, Raghav Sethi, Michael Kaminsky, David G. Andersen, Michael J. Freedman. In 13th USENIX Symposium on Networked Systems Design and Implementation (NSDI'16), Santa Clara, CA, March 2016.
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- Low-Cost Inter-Linked Subarrays (LISA): Enabling Fast Inter-Subarray Data Movement in DRAM. Kevin K. Chang, Prashant J. Nair, Donghyuk Lee, Saugata Ghose, Moinuddin K. Qureshi, and Onur Mutlu. Proceedings of the 22nd International Symposium on High-Performance Computer Architecture (HPCA), Barcelona, Spain, March 2016.
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- A Case for Toggle-Aware Compression for GPU Systems. Gennady Pekhimenko, Evgeny Bolotin, Nandita Vijaykumar, Onur Mutlu, Todd C. Mowry, Stephen W. Keckler. Proceedings of the 22nd International Symposium on High-Performance Computer Architecture (HPCA), Barcelona, Spain, March 2016.
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- SizeCap: Efficiently Handling Power Surges in Fuel Cell Powered Data Centers. Yang Li, Di Wang, Saugata Ghose, Jie Liu, Sriram Govindan, Sean James, Eric Peterson, John Siegler, Rachata Ausavarungnirun, Onur Mutlu. 22nd International Symposium on High Performance Computer Architecture (HPCA), March 12-16, Barcelona, Spain, 2016.
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- Achieving both High Energy Efficiency and High Performance in On-Chip Communication using Hierarchical Rings with Deflection Routing. Rachata Ausavarungnirun, Chris Fallin, Xiangyao Yu, Kevin Kai-Wei Chang, Greg Nazario, Reetuparna Das, Gabriel H. Loh, Onur Mutlu. arXiv:1602.06005v1 [cs.DC], 18 Feb 2016.
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- A Framework for Accelerating Bottlenecks in GPU Execution with Assist Warps. Nandita Vijaykumar, Gennady Pekhimenko, Adwait Jog, Saugata Ghose, Abhishek Bhowmick, Rachata Ausavarungnirun, Chita R. Das, Mahmut T. Kandemir, Todd C. Mowry, Onur Mutlu. arXiv:1602.01348v1 [cs.AR]. 3 Feb 2016.
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- Towards Accurate and Fast Evaluation of Multi-Stage Log-Structured Designs. Hyeontaek Lim, David G. Andersen, Michael Kaminsky. In 14th USENIX Conference on File and Storage Technologies (FAST'16), Santa Clara, CA, February 2016.
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- Simultaneous Multi-Layer Access: Improving 3D-Stacked Memory Bandwidth at Low Cost. Donghyuk Lee, Saugata Ghose, Gennady Pekhimenko, Samira Khan, Onur Mutlu. ACM Transactions on Architecture and Code Optimization (TACO), Vol. 12, January 2016. Presented at the 11th HiPEAC Conference, Prague, Czech Republic, January 2016.
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- Enabling Accurate and Practical Online Flash Channel Modeling for Modern MLC NAND Flash Memory. Yixin Luo, Saugata Ghose, Yu Cai, Erich F. Haratsch, Onur Mutlu JSAC Special Issue, 2016.
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- ThyNVM: Enabling Software-Transparent Crash Consistency in Persistent Memory Systems. Jinglei Ren, Jishen Zhao, Samira Khan, Jongmoo Choi, Yongwei Wu, Onur Mutlu. Proceedings of the 48th International Symposium on Microarchitecture (MICRO), Waikiki, Hawaii, USA, December 2015.
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- Scheduling Techniques for Hybrid Circuit/Packet Networks. He Liu, Matthew K. Mukerjee, Conglong Li, Nicolas Feltman, George Papen, Stefan Savage, Srinivasan Seshan, Geoffrey M. Voelker, David G. Andersen, Michael Kaminsky, George Porter, Alex C. Snoeren. In 11th International Conference on emerging Networking EXperiments and Technologies (CoNEXT 2015), Heidelberg, Germany, December 2015. Nominated for Best Paper.
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- The Application Slowdown Model: Quantifying and Controlling the Impact of Inter-Application Interference at Shared Caches and Main Memory. Lavanya Subramanian, Vivek Seshadri, Arnab Ghosh, Samira Khan, Onur Mutlu. Proceedings of the 48th International Symposium on Microarchitecture (MICRO), Waikiki, Hawaii, USA, December 2015.
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- Gather-Scatter DRAM: In-DRAM Address Translation to Improve the Spatial Locality of Non-unit Strided Accesses. Vivek Seshadri, Thomas Mullins, Amirali Boroumand, Onur Mutlu, Phillip B. Gibbons, Michael A. Kozuch, Todd C. Mowry. Proceedings of the 48th International Symposium on Microarchitecture (MICRO), Waikiki, Hawaii, USA, December 2015.
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- DeltaFS: Exascale File Systems Scale Better Without Dedicated Servers. Qing Zheng, Kai Ren, Garth Gibson, Bradley W. Settlemyer, Gary Grider. PDSW2015: 10th Parallel Data Storage Workshop, held in conjunction with SC15, Austin, TX, November 16, 2015.
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- High-Performance and Lightweight Transaction Support in Flash-Based SSDs. Youyou Lu, Jiwu Shu, Jia Guo, Shuai Li, Onur Mutlu. IEEE Transactions on Computers (TC), October 2015.
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- Decoupled Direct Memory Access: Isolating CPU and IO Traffic by Leveraging a Dual-Data-Port DRAM. Donghyuk Lee, Lavanya Subramanian, Rachata Ausavarungnirun, Jongmoo Choi, Onur Mutlu. Proceedings of the 24th International Conference on Parallel Architectures and Compilation Techniques (PACT), San Francisco, CA, USA, October 2015.
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- Tracking and Reducing Uncertainty in Dataflow Analysis-Based Dynamic Parallel Monitoring. Michelle Goodstein, Phillip Gibbons, Michael Kozuch, Todd Mowry. International Conference on Parallel Architectures and Compilation Techniques (PACT 2015), Oct 18, 2015 - Oct 21, 2015, San Francisco, CA.
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- Scalable Deep Learning on Distributed GPUs with a GPU-specialized Parameter Server. Henggang Cui, Gregory R. Ganger, Phillip B. Gibbons. Carnegie Mellon University Parallel Data Laboratory Technical Report CMU-PDL-15-107, October 2015.
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- Exploiting Inter-Warp Heterogeneity to Improve GPGPU Performance. Rachata Ausavarungnirun, Saugata Ghose, Onur Kayiran, Gabriel H. Loh, Chita R. Das, Mahmut T. Kandemir, Onur Mutlu. Proceedings of the The 24th International Conference on Parallel Architectures and Compilation Techniques (PACT 2015), San Francisco, October 2015.
Abstract / PDF [556K]
- Krowd: A Key-Value Store for Crowded Venues. Utsav Drolia, Nathan Mickulicz, Rajeev Gandhi, Priya Narasimhan.10th ACM Workshop on Mobility in the Evolving Internet Architecture (MobiArch), held in Paris, France in September 2015. Best Paper.
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- A Low-Overhead, Fully-Distributed, Guaranteed-Delivery Routing Algorithm for Faulty Network-on-Chips. Mohammad Fattah, Antti Airola, Rachata Ausavarungnirun, Nima Mirzaei, Pasi Liljeberg, Juha Plosila, Siamak Mohammadi, Tapio Pahikkala, Onur Mutlu, Hannu Tenhunen. Proceedings of the 9th ACM/IEEE International Symposium on Networks on Chip (NOCS), Vancouver, BC, Canada, September 2015.
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- Resource-Efficient Data-Intensive System Designs for High Performance and Capacity. Hyeontaek Lim. Carnegie Mellon University PhD Dissertation CMU-CS-15-132, September 2015.
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- ShardFS vs. IndexFS: Replication vs. Caching Strategies for Distributed Metadata Management in Cloud Storage Systems. Lin Xiao, Kai Ren, Qing Zheng, Garth Gibson. ACM Symposium on Cloud Computing 2015. Aug. 27 - 29, 2015, Kohala Coast, HI.
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- Using Data Transformations for Low-latency Time Series Analysis. Henggang Cui, Kimberly Keeton, Indrajit Roy, Krishnamurthy Viswanathan, Gregory R. Ganger. ACM Symposium on Cloud Computing 2015. Aug. 27 - 29, 2015, Kohala Coast, HI. See the extended Technical Report for more information.
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- Managed Communication and Consistency for Fast Data-Parallel Iterative Analytics. Jinliang Wei, Wei Dai, Aurick Qiao, Qirong Ho, Henggang Cui, Gregory R. Ganger, Phillip B. Gibbons, Garth A. Gibson, Eric P. Xing. ACM Symposium on Cloud Computing 2015. Aug. 27 - 29, 2015, Kohala Coast, HI.
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- Reducing Replication Bandwidth for Distributed Document Databases. Lianghong Xu, Andrew Pavlo, Sudipta Sengupta, Jin Li, Gregory R. Ganger. ACM Symposium on Cloud Computing 2015. Aug. 27 - 29, 2015, Kohala Coast, HI.
Abstract / PDF [501K]
- Scaling Up Clustered Network Appliances with ScaleBricks. Dong Zhou, Bin Fan, Hyeontaek Lim, David G. Andersen, Michael Kaminsky, Michael Mitzenmacher, Ren Wang, Ajaypal Singh. Proc. ACM SIGCOMM 2015, August 17-21, 2015, London, United Kingdom.
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- Cuckoo Linear Algebra. Li Zhou, David G. Andersen, Mu Li, Alexander J. Smola. KDD’15, August 10-13, 2015, Sydney, NSW, Australia.
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- AUSPICE: Automated Safety Property Verification for Unmodified Executables. Jiaqi Tan, Hui Jun Tay, Rajeev Gandhi, and Priya Narasimhan. In 7th Working Conference on Verified Software: Theories, Tools, and Experiments (VSTTE), July 2015.
Abstract / PDF [390K]
- WARM: Improving NAND Flash Memory Lifetime with Write-hotness Aware Retention Management. Yixin Luo, Yu Cai, Saugata Ghose, Jongmoo Choi, Onur Mutlu.MSST 2015: 31st International Conference on Massive Storage Systems and Technologies, Jun 1, 2015 - Jun 5, 2015, Santa Clara, CA.
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- Architecting to Achieve a Billion Requests Per Second Throughput on a Single Key-Value Store Server Platform. Sheng Li, Hyeontaek Lim, Victor Lee, Jung Ho Ahn, Anuj Kalia, Michael Kaminsky, David G. Andersen, Seongil O, Sukhan Lee, Pradeep Dubey. In Proceedings of the 42nd International Symposium on Computer Architecture (ISCA 2015), Portland, OR, June 2015. Fast-tracked to Transactions on Computer Systems (TOCS).
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- Reducing Latency via Redundant Requests: Exact Analysis. Kristen Gardner, Sam Zbarsky, Sherwin Doroudi, Mor Harchol-Balter, Esa Hyytia, Alan Scheller-Wolf. Proceedings of ACM Sigmetrics/Performance 2015 Conference on Measurement and Modeling of Computer Systems (SIGMETRICS 15), Portland, OR. June 2015.
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- A Case for Core-Assisted Bottleneck Acceleration in GPUs: Enabling Efficient Data Compression. Nandita Vijaykumar, Gennady Pekhimenko, Adwait Jog, Abhishek Bhowmick, Rachata Ausavarungnirun, Chita Das, Mahmut Kandemir, Todd C. Mowry, Onur Mutlu. Proceedings of the 42nd International Symposium on Computer Architecture (ISCA), Portland, OR, June 2015.
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- Page Overlays: An Enhanced Virtual Memory Framework to Enable Fine-grained Memory Management. Vivek Seshadri, Gennady Pekhimenko, Olatunji Ruwase, Onur Mutlu, Phillip B. Gibbons, Michael A. Kozuch, Todd C. Mowry, Trishul Chilimbi. Proceedings of the 42nd International Symposium on Computer Architecture (ISCA), Portland, OR, June 2015.
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- SMPFRAME: A Distributed Framework for Scheduled Model Parallel Machine Learning. Jin Kyu Kim, Qirong Hoy, Seunghak Lee Xun Zheng, Wei Dai, Garth Gibson, Eric Xing. Carnegie Mellon University Parallel Data Lab Technical Report CMU-PDL-15-103, May 2015.
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- PocketTrend: Timely Identification and Delivery of Trending Search Content to Mobile Users. Gennady Pekhimenko, Dimitrios Lymberopoulos, Oriana Riva, Karin Strauss, Doug Burger. Proceedings of the 24th International World Wide Web Conference (WWW), Florence, Italy, May 2015.
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- Using Data Transformations for Low-latency Time Series Analysis. Henggang Cui, Kimberly Keeton, Indrajit Roy Krishnamurthy Viswanathan, Gregory R. Ganger.
Carnegie Mellon University Parallel Data Lab Technical Report CMU-PDL-15-106. April 2015. Extended version of the 2015 SoCC paper.
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- Caveat-Scriptor: Write Anywhere Shingled Disks. Saurabh Kadekodi, Swapnil Pimpale, Garth Gibson. Proc. Of the Seventh USENIX Workshop on Hot Topics in Storage and File Systems (HotStorage’15), Santa Clara, CA, July 2015. Expanded paper available: Carnegie Mellon University Parallel Data Lab Technical Report CMU-PDL-15-101.
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- BenchPress: Dynamic Workload Control in the OLTP-Bench Testbed. D. Van Aken, D. E. Difallah, A. Pavlo, C. Curino, and P. Cudré-Mauroux. Proceedings of the 2015 ACM SIGMOD International Conference on Management of Data, 2015, pp. 1069-1073.
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- Let’s Talk About Storage & Recovery Methods for Non-Volatile Memory Database Systems. Joy Arulraj, Andrew Pavlo, Subramanya R. Dulloor. Proceedings ACM SIGMOD, Melbourne, Victoria, Australia, May 31-June 4, 2015.
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- Raising the Bar for Using GPUs in Software Packet Processing. Anuj Kalia, Dong Zhou, Michael Kaminsky, David G. Andersen. 12th Usenix Symposium on Networked Systems Design (NSDI'15). May 4-6, 2015, Oakland, CA.
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- Efficient Hypervisor Based Malware Detection. Peter Friedrich Klemperer. Ph.D. Dissertation, Carnegie Mellon University, Electrical and Computer Engineering, May 2015.
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- Optimal Scheduling for Jobs with Progressive Deadlines. Kristen Gardner, Sem Borst, Mor Harchol-Balter. IEEE INFOCOM 15, Hong Kong, April, 2015.
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- Managed Communication and Consistency for Fast Data-Parallel Iterative Analytics. Jinliang Wei, Wei Dai, Aurick Qiao, Qirong Ho*, Henggang Cui, Gregory R. Ganger, Phillip B. Gibbons, Garth A. Gibson, Eric P. Xing. Carnegie Mellon University Parallel Data Lab Technical Report CMU-PDL-15-105. April 2015.
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- ShardFS vs. IndexFS: Replication vs. Caching Strategies for Distributed Metadata Management in Cloud Storage Systems. Lin Xiao, Kai Ren, Qing Zheng, Garth Gibson. Carnegie Mellon University Parallel Data Lab Technical Report CMU-PDL-15-104, April 2015.
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- Solving the Straggler Problem for Iterative Convergent Parallel ML. Aaron Harlap, Henggang Cui, Wei Dai, Jinliang Wei Gregory R. Ganger, Phillip B. Gibbons, Garth A. Gibson, Eric P. Xing. Carnegie Mellon University Parallel Data Laboratory Technical Report CMU-PDL-15-102, April 2015.
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Abstract / PDF [356K]
- Exploiting Compressed Block Size as an Indicator of Future Reuse. Gennady Pekhimenko, Tyler Huberty, Rui Cai, Onur Mutlu, Phillip P. Gibbons, Michael A. Kozuch, and Todd C. Mowry. Proceedings of the 21st International Symposium on High-Performance Computer Architecture (HPCA), Bay Area, CA, February 2015.
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- Data Retention in MLC NAND Flash Memory: Characterization, Optimization and Recovery. Yu Cai, Yixin Luo, Erich F. Haratsch, Ken Mai, Onur Mutlu. HPCA-21, February 7-11, 2015 — Best Paper Runner Up.
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- Adaptive-Latency DRAM: Optimizing DRAM Timing for the Common-Case. Donghyuk Lee, Yoongu Kim, Gennady Pekhimenko, Samira Khan, Vivek Seshadri, Kevin Chang, Onur Mutlu. Proceedings of the 21st International Symposium on High-Performance Computer Architecture (HPCA), Bay Area, CA, February 2015.
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- High-Performance Distributed ML at Scale through Parameter Server Consistency Models. Wei Dai, Abhimanu Kumar, Jinliang Wei, Qirong Ho, Garth Gibson, Eric P. Xing. 29th AAAI Conf. on Artificial Intelligence (AAAI-15), Jan 25-29, 2015, Austin, Texas.
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- Mitigating Prefetcher-Caused Pollution Using Informed Caching Policies for Prefetched Blocks Vivek Seshadri, Samihan Yedkar, Hongyi Xin, Onur Mutlu, Phillip B. Gibbons, Michael A. Kozuch, Todd C. Mowry. ACM Transactions on Architecture and Code Optimization (TACO), Volume 11 Issue 4, January 2015, Article No. 51.
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- Main Memory Scaling: Challenges and Solution Directions. Onur Mutlu. Invited Book Chapter in More than Moore Technologies for Next Generation Computer Design, pp. 127-153, Springer, 2015.
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- Toggle-Aware Compression for GPUs. Gennady Pekhimenko, Evgeny Bolotin, Mike O'Connor, Onur Mutlu, Todd C. Mowry, Stephen W. Keckler. IEEE Computer Architecture Letters (CAL).
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- Trading Freshness for Performance in Distributed Systems. James Cipar. Carnegie Mellon University School of Computer Science Ph.D. Dissertation CMU-CS-14-144. December 2014.
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- A Comparative Study of Baremetal Provisioning Frameworks. Ashok Chandrasekar, Garth Gibson. Carnegie Mellon University Parallel Data Laboratory Technical Report CMU-PDL-14-109, December 2014.
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- Reducing Replication Bandwidth for Distributed Document Databases. Lianghong Xu, Andrew Pavlo, Sudipta Sengupta Jin Li, Gregory R. Ganger. Carnegie Mellon University Parallel Data Lab Technical Report CMU-PDL-14-108. December 2014.
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- STOVE: Strict, Observable, Verifiable Data and Execution Models for Untrusted Applications. Jiaqi Tan, Rajeev Gandhi, Priya Narasimhan. IEEE 6th International Conference on Cloud Computing Technology and Science (CloudCom), 2014 (Doctoral Symposium), pp.644,649, 15-18 Dec. 2014.
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- STOVEPipe: Observable Access Control of User Data for Untrusted Applications on Mobile Devices. Jiaqi Tan, Utsav Drolia, Rolando Martins, Rajeev Gandhi, Priya Narasimhan. Poster at the IEEE 6th International Conference on Cloud Computing Technology and Science (CloudCom), 2014, 15-18 Dec. 2014.
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- Cuckoo Filter: Practically Better Than Bloom. Bin Fan, David G. Andersen, Michael Kaminsky, Michael D. Mitzenmacher. Proceedings of CoNEXT (CoNEXT’14), December 2014.
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- On Model Parallelization and Scheduling Strategies for Distributed Machine Learning. S. Lee, J. K. Kim, X. Zheng, Q. Ho, G. A. Gibson, E. P. Xing. Proceedings of 2014 Neural Information Processing Systems (NIPS’14), December 2014.
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- Managing GPU Concurrency in Heterogeneous Architectures. Onur Kayiran, Nachiappan Chidambaram Nachiappan, Adwait Jog, Rachata Ausavarungnirun, Mahmut T. Kandemir, Gabriel H. Loh, Onur Mutlu, and Chita R. Das. Proceedings of 47th International Symposium on Microarchitecture (MICRO’14), December 2014.
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- FIRM: Fair and High-Performance Memory Control for Persistent Memory Systems. Jishen Zhao, Onur Mutlu, Yuan Xie. Proceedings of the 47th International Symposium on Microarchitecture (MICRO), Cambridge, UK, December 2014.
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- Exploiting Iterative-ness for Parallel ML Computations. Henggang Cui, Alexey Tumanov, Jinliang Wei, Lianghong Xu, Wei Dai, Jesse Haber-Kucharsky, Qirong Ho, Greg R. Ganger, Phil B. Gibbons, Garth A. Gibson, Eric P. Xing. ACM Symposium on Cloud Computing 2014 (SoCC'14), Seattle, WA, Nov 2014. Supersedes Carnegie Mellon University Parallel Data Technical Report CMU-PDL-14-107.
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Abstract / PDF [287K]
- IndexFS: Scaling File System Metadata Performance with Stateless Caching and Bulk Insertion. Kai Ren, Qing Zheng, Swapnil Patil, Garth Gibson. ACM/IEEE Int'l Conf. for High Performance Computing, Networking, Storage and Analysis (SC'14), November 16-21, 2014, New Orleans, LA. BEST PAPER AWARD!
Abstract / PDF [939K] / Slides [1M]
- BatchFS: Scaling the File System Control Plane with Client-Funded Metadata Servers. Qing Zheng, Kai Ren, Garth Gibson. Proceedings of the 9th international Petascale Data Storage Workshop (PDSW '14) held in conjunction with Supercomputing '14. November 16, 2014, New Orleans, LA.
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- Cloudlets: at the Leading Edge of Mobile-Cloud Convergence. M. Satyanarayanan, Z. Chen, K. Ha, W. Hu, W. Richter, P. Pillai. Proceedings of MobiCASE 2014: Sixth International Conference on Mobile Computing, Applications and Services, Austin, TX, November 2014.
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- A Brief History of Cloud Offload. M. Satyanarayanan. GetMobile, Volume 18, Issue 4, October 2014.
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- The Heterogeneous Block Architecture. Chris Fallin, Chris Wilkerson, Onur Mutlu. Proceedings of 32nd IEEE International Conference on Computer Design (ICCD’14), October 2014.
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- The Blacklisting Memory Scheduler: Achieving High Performance and Fairness at Low Cost. Lavanya Subramanian, Donghyuk Lee, Vivek Seshadri, Harsha Rastogi, Onur Mutlu. Proceedings of the 32nd IEEE International Conference on Computer Design (ICCD), Seoul, South Korea, October 2014.
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- Will They Blend?: Exploring Big Data Computation atop Traditional HPC NAS Storage. Ellis H. Wilson III, Mahmut T. Kandemir, Garth Gibson. The 34th International Conference on Distributed Computing Systems, ICDCS 2014, June 30 - July 3, 2014, Madrid, Spain.
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- Characterizing Application Memory Error Vulnerability to Optimize Datacenter Cost via Heterogeneous- Reliability Memory. Yixin Luo, Sriram Govindan, Bikash Sharma, Mark Santaniello, Justin Meza, Aman Kansal, Jie Liu, Badriddine Khessib, Kushagra Vaid, Onur Mutlu Proceedings of the 44th Annual IEEE/IFIP International Conference on Dependable Systems and Networks (DSN), Atlanta, GA, June 2014.
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- Exact Analysis of the M/M/k/setup Class of Markov Chains via Recursive Renewal Reward. Anshul Gandhi, Sherwin Doroudi, Mor Harchol-Balter, Alan Scheller-Wolf. Queueing Systems: Theory and Applications vol. 77, no. 2, 2014, pp. 177-209. June 2014.
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- The Efficacy of Error Mitigation Techniques for DRAM Retention Failures: A Comparative Experimental Study. Samira Khan, Donghyuk Lee, Yoongu Kim, Alaa Alameldeen, Chris Wilkerson, Onur Mutlu. Proceedings of the ACM International Conference on Measurement and Modeling of Computer Systems (SIGMETRICS’14), June 2014.
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- Exploiting Bounded Staleness to Speed up Big Data Analytics. Henggang Cui, James Cipar, Qirong Ho, Jin Kyu Kim, Seunghak Lee, Abhimanu Kumar Jinliang Wei, Wei Dai, Gregory R. Ganger, Phillip B. Gibbons, Garth A. Gibson, Eric P. Xing. 2014 USENIX Annual Technical Conference (ATC'14). June 19-20, 2014. Philadelphia, PA. Supersedes CMU-PDL-14-101.
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- The Dirty-Block Index. Vivek Seshadri, Abhishek Bhowmick, Onur Mutlu, Phillip B. Gibbons, Michael A. Kozuch, Todd C. Mowry. 41st International Symposium on Computer Architecture, June, 2014.
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- A Tag-Based, Logical Access-Control Framework for Personal File Sharing. Michelle L. Mazurek. Carnegie Mellon University ECE Ph.D. Dissertation, May 2014.
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- Paxos Quorum Leases: Fast Reads Without Sacrificing Writes. Iulian Moraru, David G. Andersen, Michael Kaminsky. Carnegie Mellon University Parallel Data Lab Technical Report CMU-PDL-14-105. May 2014.
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- Scaling File System Metadata Performance with Stateless Caching and Bulk Insertion. Kai Ren, Qing Zheng, Swapnil Patil, Garth Gibson. Carnegie Mellon University Parallel Data Lab Technical Report CMU-PDL-14-103. May 2014.
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- Comparing Performance of Different Cleaning Algorithms for SMR Disks. Mukul Kumar Singh. M.S. Thesis: Master of Science in Information Networking, April 2014.
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- MICA: A Holistic Approach to Fast In-Memory Key-Value Storage. Hyeontaek Lim, Dongsu Han, David G. Andersen, Michael Kaminsky. 11th USENIX Symposium on Networked Systems Design and Implementation (NSDI'14), April 2014.
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- Algorithmic Improvements for Fast Concurrent Cuckoo Hashing. Xiaozhou Li, David G. Andersen, Michael Kaminsky, Michael J. Freedman. Proceedings of the European Conference on Computer Systems (EuroSys '14), April 2014.
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- Memory Systems. Yoongu Kim, Onur Mutlu. Invited Book Chapter in Computing Handbook, Third Edition: Computer Science and Software Engineering, CRC Press, April 2014.
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- So, You Want To Trace Your Distributed System? Key Design Insights from Years of Practical Experience. Raja R. Sambasivan, Rodrigo Fonseca, Ilari Shafer, Gregory R. Ganger. Carnegie Mellon University Parallel Data Lab Technical Report CMU-PDL-14-102, April 2014.
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- Agentless Cloud-wide Streaming of Guest File System Updates. Wolfgang Richter, Canturk Isci, Jan Harkes, Benjamin Gilbert, Vasanth Bala, Mahadev Satyanarayanan. The Second IEEE Conference on Cloud Engineering (IC2E'14), March 2014. The Second IEEE Conference on Cloud Engineering (IC2E'14), March 2014. Best Paper.
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- Improving Cache Performance by Exploiting Read-Write Disparity. Samira Khan, Alaa Alameldeen, Chris Wilkerson, Onur Mutlu, Daniel Jimenez. Proceedings of the 20th International Symposium on High-Performance Computer Architecture (HPCA), Orlando, FL, February 2014. Best paper session.
Abstract / PDF [355K]
- Improving DRAM Performance by Parallelizing Refreshes with Accesses. Kevin Chang, Donghyuk Lee, Zeshan Chishti, Chris Wilkerson, Alaa Alameldeen, Yoongu Kim, Onur Mutlu. Proceedings of the 20th International Symposium on High-Performance Computer Architecture (HPCA'14), February 2014.
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- QuiltView: Glass-Sourced Video for Google Maps Queries. Zhuo Chen, Wenlu Hu, Kiryong Ha, Jan Harkes, Benjamin Gilbert, Jason Hong, Asim Smailagic, Dan Siewiorek, Mahadev Satyanarayanan. The 15th International Workshop on Mobile Computing Systems and Applications (HotMobile'14), February 2014.
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- SpringFS: Bridging Agility and Performance in Elastic Distributed Storage.
Lianghong Xu, James Cipar, Elie Krevat, Alexey Tumanov,
Nitin Gupta, Michael A. Kozuch, Gregory R. Ganger. 12th USENIX Conference on File and Storage Technologies (FAST '14), Santa Clara, CA, February 17–20, 2014.
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- Toward Strong, Usable Access Control for Shared Distributed Data. Michelle L. Mazurek, Yuan Liang, William Melicher, Manya Sleeper, Lujo Bauer, Gregory R. Ganger, Nitin Gupta, and Michael K. Reiter. In FAST
2014: USENIX Conference on File and Storage Technologies, February 2014.
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- Scalable, High Performance Ethernet Forwarding with CuckooSwitch. Dong Zhou, Bin Fan, Hyeontaek Lim, David G. Andersen, Michael Kaminsky. Proc. 9th International Conference on emerging Networking EXperiments and Technologies (CoNEXT), Dec. 2013.
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- RowClone: Fast and Energy-Efficient In-DRAM Bulk Data Copy and Initialization. Vivek Seshadri, Yoongu Kim, Chris Fallin, Donghyuk Lee, Rachata Ausavarungnirun, Gennady Pekhimenko, Yixin Luo, Onur Mutlu, Phillip B. Gibbons, Michael A. Kozuch, and Todd C. Mowry, 46th IEEE/ACM International Symposium on Microarchitecture (MICRO-46), December 2013.
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- Linearly Compressed Pages: A Low-Complexity, Low-Latency Main Memory Compression Framework. Gennady Pekhimenko, Vivek Seshadri, Yoongu Kim, Hongyi Xin, Onur Mutlu, Philip B. Gibbons, Michael A. Kozuch, Todd C. Mowry.
Proceedings of the 46th International Symposium on Microarchitecture (MICRO), Davis, CA, December 2013.
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- More Effective Distributed ML via a Stale Synchronous Parallel Parameter Server. Qirong Ho, James Cipar, Henggang Cui, Jin Kyu Kim, Seunghak Lee, Phillip B. Gibbons, Garth A. Gibson, Gregory R. Ganger, Eric P. Xing. Conference on Neural Information Processing Systems (NIPS '13). Dec 5-8, 2013, Lake Tahoe, NV.
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- Visualizing Request-flow Comparison to Aid Performance Diagnosis in Distributed Systems. Raja R. Sambasivan, Ilari Shafer, Michelle L. Mazurek, Gregory R. Ganger. IEEE Transactions on Visualization and Computer Graphics (Proceedings Information Visualization 2013), vol. 19, no. 12, Dec. 2013.
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- Measuring Password Guessability for an Entire University.
Michelle L. Mazurek, Saranga Komanduri, Timothy Vidas, Lujo Bauer, Nicolas Christin, Lorrie Faith Cranor, Patrick Gage Kelley, Richard Shay, Blase Ur.
In CCS 2013: ACM Conference on Computer and Communications Security, November 2013.
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- Consistent, Durable, and Safe Memory Management for Byte-addressable Non Volatile Main Memory.
Iulian Moraru, David G. Andersen, Michael Kaminsky, Niraj Tolia, Nathan Binkert, Parthasarathy Ranganathan.
TRIOS: Conference on Timely Results in Operating Systems. Held in conjunction with SOSP '13. Farmington, PA, November 3, 2013.
Abstract / PDF [967K]
- There Is More Consensus in Egalitarian Parliaments.
Iulian Moraru, David G. Andersen, Michael Kaminsky.
Proceedings of the 24th ACM Symposium on Operating Systems Principles (SOSP'13), November 3-6, 2013, Nemacolin Woodlands Resort, Farmington, PA.
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- Making Problem Diagnosis Work for Large-Scale, Production Storage Systems.
Michael P. Kasick, Priya Narasimhan, Kevin Harms.
Proceedings of the 27th Large Installation System Administration Conference (LISA '13), Washington, DC, November 2013.
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- LightTx: A Lightweight Transactional Design in Flash-based SSDs to Support Flexible Transactions. Youyou Lu, Jiwu Shuy, Jia Guo, Shuai Li, Onur Mutlu. The 32nd IEEE International Conference on Computer Design (ICCD13). October 6-9, 2013, Ashville, NC, USA.
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- Program Interference in MLC NAND Flash Memory: Characterization, Modeling, and Mitigation. Yu Cai, Onur Mutlu, Erich F. Haratsch, Ken Mai. The 32nd IEEE International Conference on Computer Design (ICCD13). October 6-9, 2013, Ashville, NC, USA.
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- Memory-Efficient GroupBy-Aggregate using Compressed Buffer Trees. Hrishikesh Amur, Wolfgang Richter, David G. Andersen, Michael Kaminsky, Karsten Schwan, Athula Balachandran, Erik Zawadzki. 2013 ACM Symposium on Cloud Computing (SoCC'13), Oct. 01-03 2013, Santa Clara, CA, USA.
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- Challenges in Security and Privacy for Mobile Edge-Clouds. Jiaqi Tan, Rajeev Gandhi, Priya Narasimhan. Carnegie Mellon University Parallel Data Lab Technical Report CMU-PDL-13-113. October, 2013.
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- Memory Scaling: A Systems Architecture Perspective. Onur Mutlu. MemCon 2013 (MEMCON), Santa Clara, CA, August 2013.
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- A Proof of Correctness for Egalitarian Paxos. Iulian Moraru, David G. Andersen, Michael Kaminsky. Carnegie Mellon University Parallel Data Lab Technical Report CMU-PDL-13-111. August 2013.
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- Hadoop's Adolescence: An Analysis of Hadoop Usage in Scientific Workloads. Kai Ren, YongChul Kwon, Magdalena Balazinska, Bill Howe. Very Large Data Bases (VLDB), August, 2013.
Abstract / PDF [986K]
- Toward Strong, Usable Access Control for Shared Distributed Data. Michelle L. Mazurek, Yuan Liang, Manya Sleeper, Lujo Bauer, Gregory R. Ganger, Nitin Gupta, Michael K. Reiter. Carnegie Mellon University Parallel Data Lab Technical Report CMU-PDL-13-110. June 2013.
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- Just-in-Time Provisioning for Cyber Foraging. Kiryong Ha, Padmanabhan Pillai, Wolfgang Richter, Yoshihisa Abe, Mahadev Satyanarayanan The 11th International Conference on Mobile Systems, Applications, and Services (MobiSys'13), June 25–28, 2013, Taipei, Taiwan.
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- An Experimental Study of Data Retention Behavior in Modern DRAM Devices: Implications for Retention Time Profiling Mechanisms. Jamie Liu, Ben Jaiyen, Yoongu Kim, Chris Wilkerson, Onur Mutlu. ACM/IEEE International Symposium on Computer Architecture (ISCA '13), June 23-27, 2013, Tel-Aviv, Israel.
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- A Case for Efficient Hardware/Software Cooperative Management of Storage and Memory. Justin Meza, Yixin Luo, Samira Khan, Jishen Zhao, Yuan Xie, Onur Mutlu. Fifth Workshop on Energy-Efficient Design (WEED 2013). Held in conjunction with the 2013 International Symposium on Computer Architecture (ISCA-40). June 24, 2013, Tel-Aviv, Israel.
Abstract / PDF [667K]
- TABLEFS: Enhancing Metadata Efficiency in the Local File System.
Kai Ren, Garth Gibson.
2013 USENIX Annual Technical Conference, June 26-28, 2013, San Jose, CA.
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- PRObE: A Thousand-Node Experimental Cluster for Computer Systems Research. Garth Gibson, Gary Grider, Andree Jacobson, Wyatt Lloyd. USENIX ;login:, v 38, n 3, June 2013.
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- Shingled Magnetic Recording: Areal Density Increase Requires New Data Management. Tim Feldman, Garth Gibson.
USENIX ;login:, v 38, n 3, June 2013.
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- I/O Acceleration with Pattern Detection. Jun He, John Bent, Aaron Torres, Gary Grider, Garth Gibson, Carlos Maltzahn, Xian-He Sun. The 22nd Int. ACM Symposium on High Performance Parallel and Distributed Computing (HPDC'13), New York City, June 17-21, 2013.
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- Active Disk Meets Flash: A Case for Intelligent SSDs. Sangyeun Cho, Chanik Park, Hyunok Oh, Sungchan Kim, Youngmin, Gregory R. Ganger. Proceedings of the ACM Int'l Conference on Supercomputing (ICS), Eugene, OR, June 2013.
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- Specialized Storage for Big Numeric Time Series. Ilari Shafer, Raja R. Sambasivan, Anthony Rowe, Gregory R. Ganger. Proceedings of the 5th Workshop on Hot Topics in Storage and File Systems, June 2013.
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- Building a High-Performance Metadata Service by Reusing Scalable I/O Bandwidth. Kai Ren, Swapnil Patil, Kartik Kulkarni, Adit Madan, Garth Gibson. Carnegie Mellon University Parallel Data Laboratory Technical Report CMU-PDL-13-107, May 2013.
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- Automated Diagnosis of Chronic Performance Problems in Production Systems. Soila P. Kavulya. Carnegie Mellon University Parallel Data Lab Ph.D. Dissertation. CMU-PDL-13-109, May 2013.
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- Diagnosing Performance Changes in Distributed Systems by Comparing Request Flows. Raja R. Sambasivan. Carnegie Mellon University Parallel Data Lab Ph.D. Dissertation. CMU-PDL-13-105, May 2013.
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- Solving the Straggler Problem with Bounded Staleness. James Cipar, Qirong Ho, Jin Kyu Kim, Seunghak Lee, Gregory R. Ganger, Garth Gibson, Kimberly Keeton, Eric Xing. 14th USENIX HotOS Workshop, Santa Ana Pueblo, NM, May 13-15, 2013.
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- Evaluating STT-RAM as an Energy-Efficient Main Memory Alternative. Emre Kultursay, Mahmut Kandemir, Anand Sivasubramaniam, and Onur Mutlu. 2013 IEEE International Symposium on Performance Analysis of Systems and Software (ISPASS 2013), April 21-23, 2013, Austin, TX.
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- PETAL: Preset Encoding Table Information Leakage. Jiaqi Tan, Jayvardhan Nahata. Carnegie Mellon University Parallel Data Lab Technical Report
CMU-PDL-13-106,
April 2013.
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- Theia: Visual Signatures for Problem Diagnosis in Large Hadoop Clusters. Elmer Garduno, Soila P. Kavulya, Jiaqi Tan, Rajeev Gandhi, Priya Narasimhan. USENIX ;login, 38(2), April 2013.
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- Asymmetry-aware Execution Placement on Manycore Chips. Alexey Tumanov, Joshua Wise, Onur Mutlu, Gregory R. Ganger. In Proc. of the 3rd Workshop on Systems for Future Multicore Architectures (SFMA'13), EuroSys'13, Apr. 14-17, 2013, Prague, Czech Republic.
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- Visualizing Request-flow Comparison
to Aid Performance Diagnosis in Distributed Systems.
Raja R. Sambasivan, Ilari Shafer, Michelle L. Mazurek, Gregory R. Ganger. Carnegie Mellon University Parallel Data Lab Technical Report
CMU-PDL-13-104 (supersedes CMU-PDL-12-102),
April 2013.
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- The Impact of Length and Mathematical Operators on the Usability and
Security of System-assigned One-time PINs.
Patrick Gage Kelley, Saranga Komanduri, Michelle L. Mazurek, Richard Shay,
Tim Vidas, Lujo Bauer, Nicolas Christin, and Lorrie Faith Cranor.
In 2013 Workshop on Usable Security (USEC), April 2013.
Abstract / PDF [802K]
- MemC3: Compact and Concurrent Memcache with Dumber Caching and Smarter Hashing.
Bin Fan, David G. Andersen and Michael Kaminsky.
In Proc. 10th USENIX NSDI, Apr 2013. Supersedes Carnegie Mellon University Parallel Data Lab Technical Report CMU-PDL-12-116.
November 2012. Source code: https://github.com/efficient/libcuckoo
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- Threshold Voltage Distribution in MLC NAND Flash Memory: Characterization, Analysis, and Modeling. Yu Cai, Erich F. Haratsch, Onur Mutlu and Ken Mai. Design Automation and Test in Europe (DATE 2013), Mar 19-22, 2013, Grenoble, France.
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- Application-to-Core Mapping Policies to Reduce Memory System Interference in Multi-Core Systems. Reetuparna Das, Rachata Ausavarungnirun, Onur Mutlu, Akhilesh Kumar, Mani Azimi. Proceedings of the 19th International Symposium on High-Performance Computer Architecture (HPCA 2013), Shenzhen, China, February 2013.
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- MISE: Providing Performance Predictability and Improving Fairness in Shared Main Memory Systems. Lavanya Subramanian, Vivek Seshadri, Yoongu Kim, Ben Jaiyen, Onur Mutlu. Proceedings of the 19th International Symposium on High-Performance Computer Architecture (HPCA 2013), Shenzhen, China, February 2013.
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- Tiered-Latency DRAM: A Low Latency and Low Cost DRAM Architecture.
Donghyuk Lee, Yoongu Kim, Vivek Seshadri, Jamie Liu, Lavanya Subramanian, Onur Mutlu. Proceedings of the 19th International Symposium on High-Performance Computer Architecture (HPCA), Shenzhen China, February 2013.
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- Practical Batch-Updatable External Hashing with Sorting.
Hyeontaek Lim and David G. Andersen and Michael Kaminsky.
In Proc. Meeting on Algorithm Engineering and Experiments (ALENEX), Jan 2013.
Abstract / PDF [536K]
- TABLEFS: Enhancing Metadata Efficiency in the Local File System. Kai Ren, Garth Gibson. Carnegie Mellon University Parallel Data Lab Technical Report CMU-PDL-13-102, January 2013. Revised version of CMU-PDL-12-110.
Abstract / PDF [798K]
- Giga+TableFS on PanFS: Scaling Metadata Performance on Cluster File Systems. Kartik Kulkarni, Kai Ren, Swapnil Patil, Garth Gibson. Carnegie Mellon University Parallel Data Lab Technical Report CMU-PDL-13-101, January 2013.
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- Error Analysis and Retention-Aware Error Management for NAND Flash Memory. Yu Cai, Gulay Yalcin, Onur Mutlu,
Erich F. Haratsch, Adrian Cristal, Osman Unsal, Ken Mai. Intel Technology Journal (ITJ) Special. Issue on Memory Resiliency, 2013.
Abstract / PDF [270K]