Storage as a Service (StaaS) is a vital component of cloud computing by offering the vision
of a virtually infinite pool of storage resources. It supports a variety of cloud-based data store …

Existing blockchain systems scale poorly because of their distributed consensus protocols.
Current attempts at improving blockchain scalability are limited to cryptocurrency. Scaling …

We live in an increasingly interconnected world, with many organizations operating across
countries or even continents. To serve their global user base, organizations are replacing …

Boki is a new serverless runtime that exports a shared log API to serverless functions. Boki
shared logs enable stateful serverless applications to manage their state with durability …

Datacenter systems and I/O devices now run at single-digit microsecond latencies, requiring
ns-scale operating systems. Traditional kernel-based operating systems impose an …

Emerging Multicore SoC SmartNICs, enclosing rich computing resources (eg, a multicore
processor, onboard DRAM, accelerators, programmable DMA engines), hold the potential to …

Distributed applications use replication, implemented by protocols like Paxos, to ensure data
availability and transparently mask server failures. This paper presents a new approach to …

There is currently an active debate on which RDMA primitive (ie, one-sided or two-sided) is
optimal for distributed transactions. Such a debate has led to a number of optimizations …

Multi-core in-memory databases promise high-speed online transaction processing.
However, the performance of individual designs suffers when the workload characteristics …

Next-generation non-volatile memories (NVMs) will provide byte addressability, persistence,
high density, and DRAM-like performance. They have the potential to benefit many …