USENIX Courses

Config-Snob: Tuning for the Best Configurations of Networking Protocol Stack

Optimizing web server performance through dynamic tuning of networking protocol stack configurations, addressing challenges in configuration space and network dynamics.

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

Efficient Decentralized Federated Singular Vector Decomposition

Innovative system for efficient decentralized federated SVD, enhancing privacy and performance in distributed applications. Outperforms existing methods with significant speed improvements and larger throughput.

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

HiP4-UPF - High-Performance Comprehensive 5G User Plane Function on P4 Programmable Switches

Optimizing 5G User Plane Function on P4 switches: Improved performance, increased device support, and enhanced throughput for comprehensive UPF features without extra resources.

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

Accelerating the Training of Large Language Models - Efficient Activation Rematerialization and Optimal Hybrid Parallelism

Innovative strategies for accelerating large language model training: efficient activation rematerialization and optimal hybrid parallelism, boosting performance and resource utilization.

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

Enhancing Resource Management of the World's Largest PCDN System for On-Demand Video Streaming

Explore ByteDance's PCDN+ system, enhancing video content delivery with cost-efficient edge resources. Learn about its centralized/decentralized framework, improved resource utilization, and higher service speeds.

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

TileClipper: Lightweight Selection of Regions of Interest from Videos for Traffic Surveillance

Innovative video surveillance system reducing data sent to cloud by 22% while maintaining 92% detection accuracy. Utilizes tile sampling for efficient traffic monitoring on low-cost edge devices.

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

CPC: Flexible, Secure, and Efficient CVM Maintenance with Confidential Procedure Calls

Innovative approach for secure and efficient maintenance of Confidential Virtual Machines, introducing Confidential Procedure Calls to enhance performance, security, and flexibility in cloud computing environments.

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

High-density Mobile Cloud Gaming on Edge SoC Clusters

Innovative system enabling high-density mobile cloud gaming on SoC Clusters through efficient resource partitioning and cross-SoC offloading, increasing game density by 4.5x while maintaining performance.

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

MSFRD: Mutation Similarity Based SSD Failure Rating and Diagnosis for Complex Production Environments

Innovative SSD failure prediction scheme using mutation similarity for data centers. Improves precision and recall, enables early rating and progressive diagnosis for enhanced storage reliability.

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

Ethane - An Asymmetric File System for Disaggregated Persistent Memory

Innovative file system leveraging disaggregated persistent memory to enhance performance and cost-effectiveness in distributed environments, outperforming modern alternatives by up to 68x.

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

Data Caching for Enterprise-Grade Petabyte-Scale OLAP

Explores Alluxio local cache for petabyte-scale OLAP, optimizing data transfer efficiency in decoupled compute-storage models. Shares insights from Uber and Meta deployments.

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

WingFuzz: Implementing Continuous Fuzzing for Database Management Systems

Continuous fuzzing technique for enterprise-level DBMSs, addressing challenges in SQL grammar, codebase evolution, and anomaly analysis. Discovered 236 bugs across 12 major DBMSs.

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

Metis - Fast Automatic Distributed Training on Heterogeneous GPUs

Efficient distributed training system for heterogeneous GPUs. Optimizes parallelism plans, improves resource utilization, and achieves significant speed-ups for large deep learning models.

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

FBMM: Making Memory Management Extensible With Filesystems

Innovative approach using filesystems for extensible memory management, enabling diverse memory configurations and policies with minimal code and competitive performance.

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

ALPS: An Adaptive Learning, Priority OS Scheduler for Serverless Functions

Innovative OS scheduler for serverless functions, combining SRPT and proportional-share scheduling to optimize performance of short-lived tasks while preventing starvation of longer functions.

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