Memory Courses

IEEE

Readactor: Practical Code Randomization Resilient to Memory Disclosure

Explore practical code randomization techniques resilient to memory disclosure attacks, enhancing software security against return-oriented programming and other code-reuse threats.

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

USENIX

AIFM - High-Performance, Application-Integrated Far Memory

Explore AIFM, a high-performance system enabling efficient use of remote memory in datacenters. Learn about its API, runtime, and benefits for applications facing memory constraints.

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

USENIX

coIOMMU - A Virtual IOMMU with Cooperative DMA Buffer Tracking for Efficient Memory Management in Direct I/O

Explore efficient memory management in direct I/O virtualization through coIOMMU, a novel virtual IOMMU architecture with cooperative DMA buffer tracking for improved performance and resource utilization.

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

USENIX

Twizzler - A Data-Centric OS for Non-Volatile Memory

Explore Twizzler, an innovative OS redesign for non-volatile memory, offering efficient data persistence, simplified programming, and improved performance over traditional systems.

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

USENIX

Efficient Memory Disaggregation with Infiniswap

Explore INFINISWAP: an RDMA-based remote memory paging system that improves application performance by leveraging unused cluster memory, without modifying existing applications or OS.

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

USENIX

HotRing - A Hotspot-Aware In-Memory Key-Value Store

Explores HotRing, a novel in-memory key-value store optimized for concurrent access to hot data, featuring an ordered-ring hash index and lock-free structures for improved performance on skewed workloads.

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

USENIX

Crimson - A New Ceph OSD for the Age of Persistent Memory and Fast NVMe Storage

Explore Crimson, a new Ceph OSD designed for low-latency persistent memory and NVMe storage. Learn about its architecture, performance benefits, and future developments in this technical deep dive.

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

USENIX

An Empirical Guide to the Behavior and Use of Scalable Persistent Memory

Empirical guide exploring Intel's Optane DIMM behavior, offering insights on performance characteristics and best practices for optimizing persistent memory software in real-world applications.

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

USENIX

Linux Memory Management at Scale - Under the Hood

Explore Linux memory management for reliable, large-scale systems. Learn about swap, cgroups, PSI, and memory protection from a Facebook SRE, debunking myths and offering expert insights.

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

USENIX

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

USENIX

Carbink - Fault-Tolerant Far Memory

Fault-tolerant far memory system using erasure-coding and remote memory compaction for efficient datacenter applications, offering improved latency and performance over existing solutions.

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

USENIX

MemLiner - Lining up Tracing and Application for a Far-Memory-Friendly Runtime

MemLiner: Runtime technique improving far-memory systems by aligning application and garbage collection memory accesses, reducing local-memory working set and enhancing remote-memory prefetching for better performance.

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

USENIX

NetVRM - Virtual Register Memory for Programmable Networks

NetVRM: A system enabling dynamic register memory sharing between applications on programmable networks, improving resource utilization and application performance through virtual memory abstraction and utility-based allocation.

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

USENIX

Hydra - Resilient and Highly Available Remote Memory

Resilient remote memory system with low latency, high availability, and efficient erasure coding. Improves performance-efficiency tradeoff and reduces data loss probability under correlated failures.

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

USENIX

FORD - Fast One-sided RDMA-based Distributed Transactions for Disaggregated Persistent Memory

Explore efficient distributed transactions for disaggregated persistent memory using FORD, a system leveraging one-sided RDMA to improve throughput and reduce latency in remote memory pools.

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