The rapid development of cloud computing with virtualization technology has benefited both
academia and industry. For any cloud data center at scale, one of the primary challenges is …

User-facing latency-sensitive web services include numerous distributed,
intercommunicating microservices that promise to simplify software development and …

Multi-tenancy in modern datacenters is currently limited to a single latency-critical,
interactive service, running alongside one or more low-priority, best-effort jobs. This limits …

Performance unpredictability is a major roadblock towards cloud adoption, and has
performance, cost, and revenue ramifications. Predictable performance is even more critical …

Cloud computing promises flexibility and high performance for users and high cost-efficiency
for operators. Nevertheless, most cloud facilities operate at very low utilization, hurting both …

Abstract Video Question Answering (QA) is an important task in understanding video
temporal structure. We observe that there are three unique attributes of video QA compared …

The simplest strategy to guarantee good quality of service (QoS) for a latency-sensitive
workload with sub-millisecond latency in a shared cluster environment is to never run other …

Scheduling diverse applications in large, shared clusters is particularly challenging. Recent
research on cluster scheduling focuses either on scheduling speed, using sampling to …

Guaranteeing Quality-of-Service (QoS) of latency-sensitive applications while improving
server utilization through application co-location is important yet challenging in modern …

Many of the important services running on data centres are latency-critical, time-varying, and
demand strict user satisfaction. Stringent tail-latency targets for colocated services and …