USENIX Courses

Design Tradeoffs for SSD Reliability

Explores design tradeoffs in SSD reliability techniques, proposing a holistic management scheme for balancing performance, reliability, and lifetime across various workloads and wear states.

• YouTube
• 24 minutes
• Self-Paced
• Conference Talk

Ziggurat - A Tiered File System for Non-Volatile Main Memories and Disks

Explores Ziggurat, a tiered file system combining NVMM and disks for high performance and capacity. Discusses data placement, synchronicity prediction, and cold data migration to optimize storage efficiency.

• YouTube
• 30 minutes
• Self-Paced
• Conference Talk

GraphOne - A Data Store for Real-time Analytics on Evolving Graphs

GraphOne: A data store for real-time analytics on evolving graphs, combining edge and adjacency lists with dual versioning for efficient updates and computations. Outperforms graph databases in ingestion and static graph systems in analytics.

• YouTube
• 27 minutes
• Self-Paced
• Conference Talk

DistCache - Provable Load Balancing for Large-Scale Storage Systems with Distributed Caching

Innovative distributed caching mechanism providing provable load balancing for large-scale storage systems. Partitions hot objects and adaptively routes queries, enabling linear cache throughput increase with node count.

• YouTube
• 25 minutes
• Self-Paced
• Conference Talk

Write-Optimized Dynamic Hashing for Persistent Memory

Optimizing hash-based indexing for persistent memory: CCEH reduces overhead, guarantees constant lookup time, and ensures failure-atomicity without explicit logging, improving query latency compared to existing techniques.

• YouTube
• 24 minutes
• Self-Paced
• Conference Talk

Optimizing Systems for Byte-Addressable NVM by Reducing Bit Flipping

Optimizing data structures and memory allocation to reduce bit flipping in byte-addressable non-volatile memory, improving power efficiency and memory longevity without compromising performance.

• YouTube
• 29 minutes
• Self-Paced
• Conference Talk

Flashield - A Hybrid Key-value Cache that Controls Flash Write Amplification

Hybrid key-value cache system using DRAM and SSD to reduce flash write amplification, improving SSD durability for cloud databases while maintaining performance and efficiency.

• YouTube
• 25 minutes
• Self-Paced
• Conference Talk

Alembic - Automated Model Inference for Stateful Network Functions

Automated inference of behavioral models for stateful network functions, enabling accurate testing and verification. Introduces Alembic, which synthesizes finite-state machine ensembles for diverse rule types and configurations.

• YouTube
• 26 minutes
• Self-Paced
• Conference Talk

Datacenter RPCs Can Be General and Fast

Efficient RPC library for datacenter networks offering high performance without sacrificing generality. Handles packet loss and congestion while achieving low latency and high bandwidth on commodity hardware.

• YouTube
• 24 minutes
• Self-Paced
• Conference Talk

3D Backscatter Localization for Fine-Grained Robotics

Innovative 3D localization system for precise robotic tasks, achieving sub-centimeter accuracy and low latency through advanced bandwidth extraction and Bayesian algorithms, enabling real-time applications.

• YouTube
• 24 minutes
• Self-Paced
• Conference Talk

Towards Programming the Radio Environment with Large Arrays of Inexpensive Antennas

Explore reconfiguring wireless environments with large arrays of inexpensive antennas to improve communication. Innovative approach achieves significant throughput and capacity gains in real indoor settings.

• YouTube
• 23 minutes
• Self-Paced
• Conference Talk

Hydra - A Federated Resource Manager for Data-Center Scale Analytics

Federated resource management system for large-scale data analytics, enabling efficient scheduling and policy enforcement across millions of cores and exabytes of data in Microsoft's internal data lake.

• YouTube
• 27 minutes
• Self-Paced
• Conference Talk

FreeFlow - Software-based Virtual RDMA Networking for Containerized Clouds

FreeFlow: software-based RDMA virtualization for containerized clouds, enabling high-performance networking with isolation, portability, and controllability. Achieves near bare-metal RDMA performance for applications like TensorFlow and Spark.

• YouTube
• 26 minutes
• Self-Paced
• Conference Talk

Riverbed - Enforcing User-defined Privacy Constraints in Distributed Web Services

Riverbed: A framework for privacy-respecting web services, allowing users to define data processing constraints. Uses remote attestation and IFC to enforce policies without requiring code modifications.

• YouTube
• 26 minutes
• Self-Paced
• Conference Talk

Shoal - A Network Architecture for Disaggregated Racks

Innovative network architecture for disaggregated racks using fast circuit switches, offering high density and performance with lower power consumption. Addresses unique challenges in connecting dense clusters of compute, memory, and storage blades.

• YouTube
• 25 minutes
• Self-Paced
• Conference Talk