The evergrowing memory demand fueled by datacenter workloads is the driving force
behind new memory technology innovations (eg, NVM, CXL). Tiered memory is a promising …

Software-controlled heterogeneous memory systems have the potential to increase the
performance and cost efficiency of computing systems. However they can only deliver on …

Recently, there is an increasing interest in building data-center applications with RDMA
because of its low-latency, high-throughput, and low-CPU-utilization benefits. However …

Modern computing is hungry for RAM, with today's enormous capacities eagerly consumed
by diverse workloads. Hardware address translation overheads have grown with memory …

With the arrival of tiered memory systems comprising various types of memory, such as
DRAM and SCM, the operating system support for memory management is becoming …

As a central part of resource management, the OS thread scheduler must maintain the
following, simple, invariant: make sure that ready threads are scheduled on available cores …

Graph-structured analytics has been widely adopted in a number of big data applications
such as social computation, web-search and recommendation systems. Though much prior …

Contemporary discrete GPUs support rich memory management features such as virtual
memory and demand paging. These features simplify GPU programming by providing a …

The virtual-to-physical address translation overhead, a major performance bottleneck for
modern workloads, can be effectively alleviated with huge pages. However, since huge …

Processors and operating systems (OSes) support multiple memory page sizes. Superpages
increase Translation Lookaside Buffer (TLB) hits, while small pages provide fine-grained …