The end of Moore's Law and Dennard Scaling has slowed processor improvements in the
past decade. While multi-core processors have improved performance, they are limited by …

SmartNICs have recently emerged as an appealing device for accelerating distributed
systems. However, there has not been a comprehensive characterization of SmartNICs, and …

SmartNICs are on the rise as a packet processing platform, with the trend towards a uniform
P4 programming model. However, unleashing SmartNIC packet processing performance in …

Serializable distributed in-memory transactions are important building blocks for data center
applications. To achieve high throughput and low latency, existing distributed transaction …

Memory optimization kernel features, such as memory deduplication, are designed to
improve the overall efficiency of systems like datacenter servers, and they have proven to be …

The widespread deployment of storage disaggregation in the cloud has facilitated flexible
scaling and storage overprovisioning, allowing for high utilization of storage capacity and …

Network speeds grow quickly in the modern cloud, so SmartNICs are introduced to offload
network processing tasks, even application logic. However, typical multicore SmartNICs …

Online-transaction-processing (OLTP) applications require the underlying storage system to
guarantee consistency and serializability for distributed transactions involving large …

Modern cloud platforms allow customers to flexibly allocate or release computing resources.
One crucial scenario is how to drive existing VMs to a specific state by a given deadline in a …

The speed of network interfaces has rapidly increased, while the performance and energy
efficiency of CPUs have not, due to the demise of Dennard scaling. As a result, functions …