Talks

• Measure, Then Build (USENIX keynote)
• Weiser Award Speech (Audio Only)
• What is Systems Research?
• Performance vs. Correctness in Storage
• Teaching Award Speech
• Isolation in the Datacenter
• Keys to Graduate School
• Living in a Layered World
• IRON File Systems

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Recent Papers

kStep: Characterization and Deterministic Testing of Linux CPU Scheduler Bugs

A cool paper about scheduling bugs and how to find them.

OBASE: Object-Based Address-Space Engineering to Improve Memory Tiering

A paper that shows how you can dynamically rearrange objects in the address space, and some of the benefits you can get out of doing so.

Bodega: Localized Linearizable Reads at Anywhere Anytime via Roster Leases

Can you believe we figured out some optimizations to consensus?

XLL: Cross-Layer Logging for Data Deduplication in Consensus-Based Storage

Turns out you can do things more efficiently if you pay attention to layering.

Getting the MOST out of your Storage Hierarchy with Mirror-Optimized Storage Tiering

Sometimes you can mirror (a little) data for big gains in performance.

The rest of our research can be found here.