Control Systems Courses

USENIX

What Breaks Our Systems - A Taxonomy of Black Swans

Explore categories of unforeseen, catastrophic system failures and strategies to fortify against them, including capacity testing, incident management, and communication.

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

USENIX

ScaleCheck - A Single-Machine Approach for Discovering Scalability Bugs in Large Distributed Systems

ScaleCheck: A novel approach for finding scalability bugs in large distributed systems using program analysis and colocation techniques, enabling testing at scale on a single commodity PC.

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

USENIX

DistCache - Provable Load Balancing for Large-Scale Storage Systems with Distributed Caching

Innovative distributed caching mechanism providing provable load balancing for large-scale storage systems. Partitions hot objects and adaptively routes queries, enabling linear cache throughput increase with node count.

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

USENIX

Optimizing Systems for Byte-Addressable NVM by Reducing Bit Flipping

Optimizing data structures and memory allocation to reduce bit flipping in byte-addressable non-volatile memory, improving power efficiency and memory longevity without compromising performance.

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

USENIX

KRCORE - A Microsecond-scale RDMA Control Plane for Elastic Computing

Microsecond-scale RDMA control plane for elastic computing, enabling rapid connection establishment and efficient data transfer in distributed systems and serverless environments.

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

USENIX

Saiyan - Design and Implementation of a Low-power Demodulator for LoRa Backscatter Systems

Ultra-low-power demodulator for long-range LoRa backscatter systems, enabling feedback demodulation, packet retransmission, rate adaptation, and channel hopping with improved range and efficiency.

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

USENIX

Passive DSSS - Empowering the Downlink Communication for Backscatter Systems

Innovative technique to enhance downlink communication in backscatter systems using passive DSSS, improving SINR by 16.5 dB and extending effective range while maintaining ultra-low power consumption.

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

USENIX

Backpressure Flow Control

Explores Backpressure Flow Control, a novel congestion control architecture for data center networks, offering improved throughput and latency compared to end-to-end schemes.

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

USENIX

Operational Characteristics of SSDs in Enterprise Storage Systems - A Large-Scale Field Study

Comprehensive field study analyzing operational characteristics of SSDs in enterprise storage systems, covering performance, lifespan, write amplification, and NAND usage rates across nearly 2 million drives.

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

USENIX

FusionFS - Fusing I/O Operations using CISCOps in Firmware File Systems

Explores FusionFS, a firmware-level filesystem leveraging near-storage computation to reduce I/O bottlenecks through CISCOps, offering improved performance and faster recovery for applications.

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

USENIX

HTMFS - Strong Consistency Comes for Free with Hardware Transactional Memory in Persistent Memory File Systems

Explore hardware-software cooperation for high-performance, strongly consistent persistent memory file systems using Hardware Transactional Memory, overcoming traditional trade-offs between speed and data integrity.

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

USENIX

When Systems Flatline - Enhancing Incident Response with Learnings from the Medical Field

Explore how medical field strategies can enhance incident response in tech systems, from algorithm-guided decisions to standardized protocols for effective management and resolution.

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

USENIX

Exploring the Design Space of Page Management for Multi-Tiered Memory Systems

Explores page management strategies for multi-tiered memory systems, analyzing access locality and tier importance to optimize performance in DRAM and SCM configurations.

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

0xdade

Opening Closed Systems With GlitchKit

Explore GlitchKit, an open-source solution for fault injection in closed systems. Learn techniques to bypass firmware protection and extract secrets through hardware hacking and reverse engineering.

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

Red Hat

Using Ansible and Redfish to Automate Systems Management

Automate large-scale server monitoring, provisioning, and updates using Ansible and Redfish. Learn to improve IT efficiency and reduce management complexity in modern infrastructure environments.

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