RapidMRC: approximating L2 miss rate curves on commodity systems for online optimizations

DK Tam, R Azimi, LB Soares, M Stumm - ACM Sigplan Notices, 2009 - dl.acm.org
Miss rate curves (MRCs) are useful in a number of contexts. In our research, online L2 cache
MRCs enable us to dynamically identify optimal cache sizes when cache-partitioning a …

[PDF][PDF] Optimizing NAND flash-based SSDs via retention relaxation

RS Liu, CL Yang, W Wu - Target, 2012 - usenix.org
As NAND Flash technology continues to scale down and more bits are stored in a cell, the
raw reliability of NAND Flash memories degrades inevitably. To meet the retention capability …

Dynamic Resource Allocation for Database Servers Running on Virtual Storage.

G Soundararajan, D Lupei, S Ghanbari, AD Popescu… - Fast, 2009 - usenix.org
We introduce a novel multi-resource allocator to dynamically allocate resources for
database servers running on virtual storage. Multi-resource allocation involves proportioning …

UPS: Unified PMU-data storage system to enhance T+ D PMU data usability

I Kosen, C Huang, Z Chen, X Zhang… - … on Smart Grid, 2019 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
The emerging distribution-level phasor measurement unit (D-PMU) is expected to play an
important role in enhancing distribution system observability and situational-awareness. It is …

Universal cache management system

PV Bagal, R Long - US Patent 9,703,706, 2017 - Google Patents
Andreas Peetz.“A myth busted and an FAQ: ESXi is* not* based on Linux. But what is it?”
Aug. 2013. http://www. vfront. de/2013/08/a-myth-busted-and-faqe-Sxi-is-not-based. html …

Efficient miss ratio curve computation for heterogeneous content popularity

D Carra, G Neglia - … Annual Technical Conference (USENIX ATC 20), 2020 - usenix.org
The Miss Ratio Curve (MRC) represents a fundamental tool for cache performance profiling.
Approximate methods based on sampling provide a low-complexity solution for MRC …

[PDF][PDF] CLIC: CLient-Informed Caching for Storage Servers.

X Liu, A Aboulnaga, K Salem, X Li - FAST, 2009 - usenix.org
Traditional caching policies are known to perform poorly for storage server caches. One
promising approach to solving this problem is to use hints from the storage clients to …

Coresets for gaussian mixture models of any shape

D Feldman, Z Kfir, X Wu - arXiv preprint arXiv:1906.04895, 2019 - arxiv.org
An $\varepsilon $-coreset for a given set $ D $ of $ n $ points, is usually a small weighted
set, such that querying the coreset\emph {provably} yields a $(1+\varepsilon) $-factor …

A query language and runtime tool for evaluating behavior of multi-tier servers

S Ghanbari, G Soundararajan, C Amza - … Performance Evaluation Review, 2010 - dl.acm.org
As modern multi-tier systems are becoming increasingly large and complex, it becomes
more difficult for system analysts to understand the overall behavior of the system, and …

Think global, act local: A buffer cache design for global ordering and parallel processing in the WAFL file system

PR Denz, M Curtis-Maury… - 2016 45th International …, 2016 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Given the enormous disparity in access speeds between main memory and storage media,
modern storage servers must leverage highly effective buffer cache policies to meet …