USENIX Courses

Unity - Accelerating DNN Training Through Joint Optimization of Algebraic Transformations and Parallelization

Explore Unity, a system optimizing distributed DNN training through joint algebraic transformations and parallelization. Learn about its unified parallel computation graph and hierarchical search algorithm for improved performance.

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

Metastable Failures in the Wild

Explores metastable failures in distributed systems, analyzing real-world incidents to categorize triggers and amplification mechanisms, aiding understanding and potential solutions for this prevalent issue.

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

KSplit - Automating Device Driver Isolation

Automating device driver isolation to protect kernels from vulnerabilities, using CPU extensions for low-overhead implementation and advanced analyses to identify shared state and synchronization requirements.

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

ROLLER - Fast and Efficient Tensor Compilation for Deep Learning

Introduces ROLLER, a fast tensor compilation approach for deep learning using rTile abstraction and recursive construction, generating efficient kernels in seconds for various accelerators.

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

Verifying Hardware Security Modules with Information-Preserving Refinement

Explore Knox, a framework for building verified hardware security modules (HSMs) that eliminates bugs and side channels through formal verification and information-preserving refinement.

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

Zero-Change Object Transmission for Distributed Big Data Analytics

Explore zero-change object transmission for efficient data exchange in distributed big data analytics, improving performance without code modifications.

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

KRCORE - A Microsecond-scale RDMA Control Plane for Elastic Computing

Microsecond-scale RDMA control plane for elastic computing, enabling rapid connection establishment and efficient data transfer in distributed systems and serverless environments.

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

ECOS - Practical Mobile Application Offloading for Enterprises

Explore ECOS, an enterprise-centric offloading system for mobile applications, addressing privacy concerns and resource management to improve handheld device performance and energy efficiency.

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

Runtime Programmable Switches

Runtime programmable switches enabling partial reconfiguration of network data planes without service disruption. FlexCore design allows flexible updates with consistency guarantees, demonstrating feasibility and benefits for future networks.

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

HeteroSketch - Coordinating Network-wide Monitoring in Heterogeneous and Dynamic Networks

Innovative framework for optimizing network-wide monitoring in diverse, dynamic environments. Reduces resource overhead while maintaining performance, coverage, and accuracy through automated profiling and task allocation.

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

Automated Verification of Network Function Binaries

Automated technique for verifying network function binaries without source code, using ghost maps to model data structures and infer control flow, enabling operators to ensure reliability of proprietary software.

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

Swift - Adaptive Video Streaming with Layered Neural Codecs

Explores Swift, an adaptive video streaming system using layered neural codecs for fine-grained rate adaptation, offering improved compression and decoding efficiency over traditional layered coding approaches.

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

A Case for Task Sampling Based Learning for Cluster Job Scheduling

Innovative task sampling approach for cluster job scheduling, improving runtime property estimation and reducing job completion time compared to history-based predictors.

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

Starlight - Fast Container Provisioning on the Edge and over the WAN

Accelerates container provisioning for edge and WAN environments by redesigning deployment protocols, filesystem, and image storage, achieving 3x faster deployment with minimal overhead.

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

Privid - Practical, Privacy-Preserving Video Analytics Queries

Explore privacy-preserving video analytics with Privid, a system enforcing duration-based privacy for public surveillance footage while maintaining utility for various applications.

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