Hybrid Computing for Interactive Datacenter Applications

P Patel, K Lim, K Jhunjhunwalla, A Martinez… - arXiv preprint arXiv …, 2023 - arxiv.org
Field-Programmable Gate Arrays (FPGAs) are more energy efficient and cost effective than
CPUs for a wide variety of datacenter applications. Yet, for latency-sensitive and bursty …

FPGAs in Data Centers: FPGAs are slowly leaving the niche space they have occupied for decades.

G Alonso - Queue, 2018 - dl.acm.org
This installment of Research for Practice features a curated selection from Gustavo Alonso,
who provides an overview of recent developments utilizing FPGAs (field-programmable gate …

Greenpar: Scheduling parallel high performance applications in green datacenters

ME Haque, IŽ Goiri, R Bianchini… - Proceedings of the 29th …, 2015 - dl.acm.org
We propose GreenPar, a scheduler for parallel high-perormance applications in datacenters
partially powered by on-site generation of renewable (" green'') energy. GreenPar schedules …

From {JVM} to {FPGA}: Bridging Abstraction Hierarchy via Optimized Deep Pipelining

J Cong, P Wei, CH Yu - 10th USENIX Workshop on Hot Topics in Cloud …, 2018 - usenix.org
FPGAs (field-programmable gate arrays) can be flexibly reconfigured to accelerate many
computation kernels with orders-of-magnitude performance/watt improvement, making …

Interconnect solutions for virtualized field-programmable gate arrays

S Yazdanshenas, V Betz - IEEE Access, 2018 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Contemporary datacenters are enhancing their compute capacity, power efficiency, and
processing latency by integrating field-programmable gate arrays (FPGA). One would like to …

Characterizing latency overheads in the deployment of FPGA accelerators

RA Cooke, SA Fahmy - 2020 30th International Conference on …, 2020 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
FPGA hardware accelerators have recently enjoyed significant attention as platforms for
further accelerating computation in the datacenter but they potentially add additional layers …

Heterogeneous datacenters: Options and opportunities

J Cong, M Huang, D Wu, CH Yu - … of the 53rd Annual Design Automation …, 2016 - dl.acm.org
In this paper we present our ongoing study and deployment efforts for enabling FPGAs in
datacenters. An important focus is to provide a quantitative evaluation of a wide range of …

Swifts: A dependency-aware and resource efficient scheduling for high throughput in clouds

J Liu, L Cheng - IEEE INFOCOM 2021-IEEE Conference on …, 2021 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
An increasing number of large-scale data analytics frameworks moves towards larger
degrees of parallelism aiming at high throughput guarantees. It is challenging to design a …

Efficient scheduling policies for {Microsecond-Scale} tasks

S McClure, A Ousterhout, S Shenker… - … USENIX Symposium on …, 2022 - usenix.org
Datacenter operators today strive to support microsecond-latency applications while also
using their limited CPU resources as efficiently as possible. To achieve this, several recent …

Horus: Granular {In-Network} Task Scheduler for Cloud Datacenters

P Yassini, K Diab, S Mahloujifar… - 21st USENIX Symposium …, 2024 - usenix.org
Short-lived tasks are prevalent in modern interactive datacenter applications. However,
designing schedulers to assign these tasks to workers distributed across the whole …