USENIX Courses

FetchBPF - Customizable Prefetching Policies in Linux with eBPF

Explore FetchBPF, a framework for customizing Linux memory prefetching policies using eBPF, enabling performance optimization without kernel modifications.

• YouTube
• 11 minutes
• On-Demand
• Free Video

Models on the Move: Towards Feasible Embedded AI for Intrusion Detection on Vehicular CAN Bus

Innovative AI model for efficient intrusion detection on vehicular CAN bus, enhancing automotive cybersecurity with high accuracy and low latency using FPGA hardware acceleration.

• YouTube
• 18 minutes
• On-Demand
• Free Video

MAGPY: Compiling Eager Mode DNN Programs by Monitoring Execution States

Optimizing deep learning programs by generating complete operator graphs through runtime monitoring, enhancing performance for complex Python-based DNN implementations.

• YouTube
• 19 minutes
• On-Demand
• Free Video

Scalable and Effective Page-table and TLB Management on NUMA Systems

Innovative approach to page-table management in NUMA systems, enhancing performance through on-demand replication and reduced TLB shootdowns, benefiting highly threaded applications.

• YouTube
• 17 minutes
• On-Demand
• Free Video

ETC: An Elastic Transmission Control Using End-to-End Available Bandwidth Perception

Innovative transport protocol ETC uses pulling rate as congestion signal, outperforming existing protocols in throughput, latency, convergence speed, and fairness for improved network performance.

• YouTube
• 20 minutes
• On-Demand
• Free Video

FlexMem - Adaptive Page Profiling and Migration for Tiered Memory

Adaptive page profiling and migration system for tiered memory, improving performance through dynamic decision-making and combining profiling methods for enhanced memory management.

• YouTube
• 17 minutes
• On-Demand
• Free Video

SimEnc - High-Performance Similarity-Preserving Encryption for Encrypted Docker Image Deduplication

Innovative encryption technique for Docker image deduplication, enhancing storage efficiency and pull performance while preserving privacy in registries.

• YouTube
• 18 minutes
• On-Demand
• Free Video

Limitations and Opportunities of Modern Hardware Isolation Mechanisms

Explores recent CPU hardware isolation mechanisms, analyzing their advantages and limitations for low-overhead system security across various computing domains.

• YouTube
• 20 minutes
• On-Demand
• Free Video

Fast Inference for Probabilistic Graphical Models

Innovative system for efficient probabilistic graphical model inference, offering significant speedup through optimized memory management, parallelization, and flexible integration with sampling algorithms.

• YouTube
• 18 minutes
• On-Demand
• Free Video

PUZZLE: Efficiently Aligning Large Language Models through Light-Weight Context Switching

Efficient system for aligning large language models, optimizing model orchestration and workload switching to minimize overhead and improve performance in AI alignment tasks.

• YouTube
• 15 minutes
• On-Demand
• Free Video

ScalaAFA - Constructing User-Space All-Flash Array Engine with Holistic Designs

Innovative user-space all-flash array engine design improving SSD array performance through efficient synchronization, task offloading, and data placement strategies.

• YouTube
• 19 minutes
• On-Demand
• Free Video

gVulkan - Scalable GPU Pooling for Pixel-Grained Rendering in Ray Tracing

Innovative multi-GPU acceleration for Vulkan-based ray tracing, enabling cloud offloading and dynamic workload balancing for enhanced rendering performance and scalability.

• YouTube
• 18 minutes
• On-Demand
• Free Video

CrossMapping - Harmonizing Memory Consistency in Cross-ISA Binary Translation

Innovative framework for cross-ISA binary translation, enhancing emulation correctness and performance. Introduces specification tables for unified memory model description and efficient primitive mapping.

• YouTube
• 17 minutes
• On-Demand
• Free Video

More is Different: Prototyping and Analyzing a New Form of Edge Server with Massive Mobile SoCs

Innovative edge server design using mobile SoCs for improved energy efficiency in cloud gaming, video transcoding, and deep learning inference, with insights on performance and cost-effectiveness.

• YouTube
• 20 minutes
• On-Demand
• Free Video

Expeditious High-Concurrency MicroVM SnapStart in Persistent Memory with Augmented Hypervisor

Innovative system PASS leverages persistent memory for efficient MicroVM SnapStart execution, reducing execution time and doubling concurrency compared to existing solutions.

• YouTube
• 20 minutes
• On-Demand
• Free Video