USENIX Courses

Optimizing for Learning

Explore cognitive science techniques to enhance SRE learning, incident response, and team collaboration. Optimize human observability for better system understanding and problem-solving.

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

Lessons Learned in Black Box Monitoring 25,000 Endpoints

Explore black box monitoring of 25,000 government endpoints, learning strategies to monitor resistant systems and improve digital services across the US government.

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

One on One SRE

Explore GitHub's innovative 1:1 SRE outreach and incident debrief programs, designed to foster a culture of resilience through empathy and psychological safety, enhancing organizational reliability.

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

The Storage Architecture of Intel's Data Management Platform

Intel's DMP storage architecture employs Ethernet-based fabric, disaggregated storage, and Kubernetes management. It offers NVMe-oF remote volumes and local Optane DCPM volumes, optimized for different I/O patterns and managed by LINBIT's storage orchest…

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

Fast Erasure Coding for Data Storage - A Comprehensive Study of the Acceleration Techniques

Comprehensive study on accelerating erasure coding for data storage, exploring optimization techniques, bitmatrix design, and vectorization to improve computation efficiency and performance in various scenarios.

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

Empowering Azure Storage with RDMA

Exploring Azure's implementation of RDMA for storage, addressing challenges in regional deployment and achieving significant performance improvements and CPU savings.

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

Better Together - Jointly Optimizing ML Collective Scheduling and Execution Planning Using SYNDICATE

Optimizing ML training with SYNDICATE: A framework that minimizes communication bottlenecks and speeds up training for large-scale models through novel motif abstraction and joint optimization techniques.

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

Building Flexible, Low-Cost Wireless Access Networks With Magma

Magma: An open system for building affordable wireless networks in underserved areas, leveraging Internet design patterns and SDN principles to reduce costs and complexity while maintaining key cellular features.

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

Push-Button Reliability Testing for Cloud-Backed Applications with Rainmaker

Explore Rainmaker, a tool for reliability testing of cloud-backed applications. Learn about its fault injection techniques, automatic policies, and success in detecting bugs in popular software.

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

Understanding RDMA Microarchitecture Resources for Performance Isolation

Explores RDMA performance isolation challenges in cloud environments, presenting a model for RNIC resource usage and a test suite to evaluate isolation solutions, offering insights for future designs.

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

Fast, Approximate Vector Queries on Very Large Unstructured Datasets

Explore Auncel, a vector query engine for large datasets, offering bounded errors and latencies. Learn how it outperforms existing solutions in processing high-dimensional data efficiently.

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

Enabling Users to Control Their Internet

CRAB system enables users to control bandwidth allocation across incoming flows without ISP support, improving web page load times and video quality through a novel control loop at receiver devices.

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

Scalable Distributed Massive MIMO Baseband Processing

Innovative system for scaling massive MIMO baseband processing in software-defined radio networks. Reduces inter-server communication to support larger MIMO configurations, enhancing 5G network capacity.

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

BGL - GPU-Efficient GNN Training by Optimizing Graph Data I/O and Preprocessing

Optimizing GPU-based GNN training for large graphs through improved data preprocessing, caching, and partitioning techniques, enhancing efficiency and performance in graph-based machine learning tasks.

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

Synthesizing Runtime Programmable Switch Updates

Explores FlexPlan, a tool for safe runtime updates of programmable switches. Discusses techniques for generating step-by-step plans that maintain correctness and memory constraints during live reconfigurations.

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