USENIX Courses

Taming the Linux Distribution Sprawl: A Journey to Standardization and Efficiency

Discover strategies for standardizing Linux distributions in cloud environments, improving management efficiency, and navigating team adoption challenges for SREs.

• YouTube
• 16 minutes
• Self-Paced
• Free Video

Logs Told Us It Was Kernel - It Wasn't: Investigating Application Performance Issues

Uncover application performance mysteries, learn investigation techniques, and optimize code with cache-friendly practices and compilation flags for enhanced efficiency.

• YouTube
• 30 minutes
• Self-Paced
• Free Video

Harmony: A Congestion-free Datacenter Architecture

Explore a novel datacenter architecture that guarantees congestion-free message delivery, offering bounded queueing and delays without sacrificing network utilization or performance.

• YouTube
• 20 minutes
• Self-Paced
• Free Video

Characterization of Large Language Model Development in Datacenters

Comprehensive analysis of large language model development challenges in datacenters, exploring resource utilization, job failures, and introducing fault-tolerant pretraining and optimized evaluation scheduling.

• YouTube
• 17 minutes
• Self-Paced
• Free Video

THC - Accelerating Distributed Deep Learning Using Tensor Homomorphic Compression

Accelerates distributed deep learning with Tensor Homomorphic Compression, enabling direct aggregation of compressed values and compatibility with in-network aggregation for faster training of vision and language models.

• YouTube
• 16 minutes
• Self-Paced
• Free Video

Harmonic - Hardware-assisted RDMA Performance Isolation for Public Clouds

Innovative hardware-assisted solution for RDMA performance isolation in multi-tenant clouds, enhancing resource sharing and preventing interference between tenants.

• YouTube
• 17 minutes
• Self-Paced
• Free Video

CASSINI: Network-Aware Job Scheduling in Machine Learning Clusters

Innovative network-aware scheduler for ML clusters, improving job completion times and reducing network congestion through strategic communication pattern interleaving.

• YouTube
• 16 minutes
• Self-Paced
• Free Video

CHISEL: Optical Slicing for Wide-Area Networks

CHISEL: A system for dynamic wide-area network slicing, enabling end-to-end optical paths with guaranteed bandwidth and low latency, optimizing spectrum allocation in cloud networks.

• YouTube
• 18 minutes
• Self-Paced
• Free Video

SMUFF: Towards Line Rate Wi-Fi Direct Transport with Orchestrated On-device Buffer Management

Innovative Wi-Fi direct transport solution achieving near-Gbps speeds for efficient peer-to-peer file transfers, optimizing buffer management and reducing resource consumption on smartphones.

• YouTube
• 17 minutes
• Self-Paced
• Free Video

Detecting Forged-Origin BGP Hijacks - A New System

Innovative system for rapid detection of forged-origin BGP hijacks, enhancing Internet routing security with high accuracy and low false positives within minutes.

• YouTube
• 16 minutes
• Self-Paced
• Free Video

BBQ - A Fast and Scalable Integer Priority Queue for Hardware Packet Scheduling

Innovative hardware-based integer priority queue for packet scheduling, supporting 100K+ flows at line rates up to 1 Tbps. Enables fair, isolated, and fine-grained network traffic control in multi-tenant cloud environments.

• YouTube
• 18 minutes
• Self-Paced
• Free Video

Empower Programmable Pipeline for Advanced Stateful Packet Processing

Innovative architecture enhancing programmable pipelines for advanced stateful packet processing, enabling flexible dataplane functions through augmented hardware and speculative execution techniques.

• YouTube
• 14 minutes
• Self-Paced
• Free Video

OPPerTune - Post-Deployment Configuration Tuning of Services

Automated configuration tuning for deployed applications, reducing latency by 50% over expert choices. OpperTune determines parameters, manages scope, and uses reinforcement learning for efficient optimization.

• YouTube
• 18 minutes
• Self-Paced
• Free Video

NN-Defined Modulator - Reconfigurable and Portable Software Modulator for IoT Gateways

Innovative approach using neural networks for IoT gateway modulators, offering improved extensibility and portability across diverse hardware platforms with enhanced efficiency.

• YouTube
• 16 minutes
• Self-Paced
• Free Video

Orthcatter: High-throughput In-band OFDM Backscatter with Over-the-Air Code Division

Innovative OFDM backscatter system enhancing throughput and spectrum efficiency. Utilizes over-the-air code division for interference cancellation, achieving superior performance in WiFi environments.

• YouTube
• 19 minutes
• Self-Paced
• Free Video