Responding to the" datacenter tax" and" killer microseconds" problems for memory-intensive
datacenter applications, diverse solutions including Smart NIC-based ones have been …

Locks are an essential building block for high-performance multicore system software. To
meet performance goals, lock algorithms have evolved towards specialized solutions for …

Multi-core scalability is one of the most important features for database systems running on
today's hardware. Not surprisingly, the implementation of locks is paramount to achieving …

A plethora of optimized mutex lock algorithms have been designed over the past 25 years to
mitigate performance bottlenecks related to critical sections and locks. Unfortunately, there is …

Today's datacenters demand high-performance, energy-efficient software data planes,
which are widely used in many areas including fast network packet processing, network …

Applications running in modern multithreaded environments are sometimes overthreaded.
The excess threads do not improve performance, and in fact may act to degrade …

I/O software stacks have evolved rapidly due to the growing speed of I/O devices-including
network adapters, storage devices, and accelerators-and the emergence of microservice …

Elasticity is an essential feature of cloud computing, which allows users to dynamically add
or remove resources in response to workload changes. However, building applications that …

The pursuit of power-efficiency is popularizing asymmetric multicore processors (AMP) such
as ARM big. LITTLE, Apple M1 and recent Intel Alder Lake with big and little cores. However …

Portability and efficiency are usually antagonists in multi-core computing. In order to develop
efficient code, one needs to take into account the topology of the target multi-cores (eg, for …