USENIX Courses

Bolt - Sub-RTT Congestion Control for Ultra-Low Latency

Innovative congestion control system for ultra-fast data center networks, reducing latency and improving flow completion time while maintaining high utilization at speeds up to 400Gbps.

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

Rearchitecting the TCP Stack for I-O-Offloaded Content Delivery

Explores IO-TCP, a split TCP stack design offloading disk I/O and packet transfer to SmartNIC, enhancing online content delivery performance by reducing CPU burden and improving scalability.

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

RingLeader - Efficiently Offloading Intra-Server Orchestration to NICs

Explores a novel approach to datacenter server orchestration by offloading tasks to NICs, improving scalability, efficiency, latency, and throughput compared to software-only solutions.

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

Dashlet - Taming Swipe Uncertainty for Robust Short Video Streaming

Innovative system for improving short video streaming quality by predicting user swipe patterns and pre-buffering content, outperforming TikTok while reducing wasted data downloads.

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

RECL - Responsive Resource-Efficient Continuous Learning for Video Analytics

Innovative video analytics framework integrating model reuse and online retraining for efficient, adaptive DNN models. Optimizes GPU allocation and leverages shared model zoo for improved performance across diverse vision tasks.

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

StarryNet - Empowering Researchers to Evaluate Futuristic Integrated Space and Terrestrial Networks

Explore futuristic integrated space-terrestrial networks with StarryNet, a framework enabling realistic and flexible experiments to evaluate global satellite dynamics and network behaviors.

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

SkyPilot - An Intercloud Broker for Sky Computing

Intercloud broker enabling seamless workload migration between clouds, creating a unified Sky Computing ecosystem for enhanced data compliance and protection against outages.

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

Invisinets - Removing Networking from Cloud Networks

Proposes a simplified cloud network interface that reduces tenant complexity by 80-90%, shifting network management responsibilities to cloud providers while maintaining scalability and security.

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

Zeus - Understanding and Optimizing GPU Energy Consumption of DNN Training

Explores tradeoffs between energy consumption and performance in DNN training, proposing Zeus framework to optimize configurations for improved energy efficiency without compromising performance.

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

Bamboo - Making Preemptible Instances Resilient for Affordable Training of Large DNNs

Innovative system for cost-effective training of large DNNs using preemptible instances, introducing redundant computations to enhance resilience and efficiency in distributed learning environments.

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

Arya - Arbitrary Graph Pattern Mining with Decomposition-based Sampling

Innovative graph pattern mining system combining decomposition theory and edge sampling for efficient processing of massive graphs, outperforming existing solutions by orders of magnitude.

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

FLASH - Towards a High-performance Hardware Acceleration Architecture for Cross-silo Federated Learning

Innovative hardware acceleration architecture for cross-silo federated learning, enhancing performance and resource utilization of cryptographic operations while preserving data privacy.

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

Hostping - Diagnosing Intra-host Network Bottlenecks in RDMA Servers

Introduces Hostping, a system for monitoring and diagnosing intra-host network bottlenecks in RDMA servers, addressing performance issues in high-speed networks through innovative loopback testing techniques.

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

Skyplane - Optimizing Transfer Cost and Throughput Using Cloud-Aware Overlays

Optimizes cloud data transfers across regions and providers using network overlays, balancing cost and performance. Outperforms existing services by up to 5x through intelligent path selection and resource allocation.

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

Shockwave - Fair and Efficient Cluster Scheduling for Dynamic Adaptation in Machine Learning

Efficient cluster scheduling system for dynamic adaptation in ML training, optimizing fairness and efficiency through market theory and stochastic dynamic programming.

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