The same only different: On information modality for configuration performance analysis

H Liang, Y Huang, T Chen - arxiv preprint arxiv:2501.15475, 2025 - arxiv.org
Configuration in software systems helps to ensure efficient operation and meet diverse user
needs. Yet, some, if not all, configuration options have profound implications for the system's …

An oracle for guiding large-scale model/hybrid parallel training of convolutional neural networks

AN Kahira, TT Nguyen, LB Gomez, R Takano… - Proceedings of the 30th …, 2021 - dl.acm.org
Deep Neural Network (DNN) frameworks use distributed training to enable faster time to
convergence and alleviate memory capacity limitations when training large models and/or …

Software Resource Disaggregation for HPC with Serverless Computing

M Copik, M Chrapek, L Schmid, A Calotoiu… - arxiv preprint arxiv …, 2024 - arxiv.org
Aggregated HPC resources have rigid allocation systems and programming models which
struggle to adapt to diverse and changing workloads. Consequently, HPC systems fail to …

cstuner: Scalable auto-tuning framework for complex stencil computation on gpus

Q Sun, Y Liu, H Yang, Z Jiang, X Liu… - 2021 IEEE …, 2021 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
The computational patterns of stencil operations are commonly used in HPC applications.
Many HPC platforms utilize the computation capability of GPUs to accelerate stencil …

Application performance modeling via tensor completion

E Hutter, E Solomonik - Proceedings of the International Conference for …, 2023 - dl.acm.org
Performance tuning, software/hardware co-design, and job scheduling are among the many
tasks that rely on models to predict application performance. We propose and evaluate low …

Automated end-to-end dynamic taint analysis for WhatsApp

S Cela, A Ciancone, P Gustafsson, Á Hajdu… - … Proceedings of the …, 2024 - dl.acm.org
Taint analysis aims to track data flows in systems, with potential use cases for security,
privacy and performance. This paper describes an end-to-end dynamic taint analysis …

Performance-detective: automatic deduction of cheap and accurate performance models

L Schmid, M Copik, A Calotoiu, D Werle… - Proceedings of the 36th …, 2022 - dl.acm.org
The many configuration options of modern applications make it difficult for users to select a
performance-optimal configuration. Performance models help users in understanding …

Enhancing empirical software performance engineering research with kernel-level events: A comprehensive system tracing approach

M Noferesti, N Ezzati-Jivan - Journal of Systems and Software, 2024 - Elsevier
Performance engineering is a proactive and systematic approach aimed at designing,
building, and enhancing software systems to ensure their efficient and reliable operation. It …

Cost-Efficient Construction of Performance Models

L Schmid, T Sağlam, M Selzer, A Koziolek - Proceedings of the 4th …, 2024 - dl.acm.org
Modern high-performance applications are highly-configurable systems that provide
hundreds of configuration options. Performance models offer insights into the performance …

Contention-aware Performance Modeling for Heterogeneous Edge and Cloud Systems

I Dagli, A Depke, A Mueller, MS Hassan… - Proceedings of the 3rd …, 2023 - dl.acm.org
Diversely Heterogeneous System-on-Chips (DH-SoC) are increasingly popular computing
platforms in many fields, such as autonomous driving and AR/VR applications, due to their …