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Where has the time gone?

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To FUSE or Not to FUSE: Performance of User-Space File Systems

To FUSE or Not to FUSE: Performance of User-Space File SystemsBharath Kumar Reddy Vangoor, Vasily Tarasov, and Erez Zadok,in The 15th USENIX Conference on File and Storage Technologies (FAST ’17),February 27 – March 2, 2017, Santa Clara, CA, USA. Previously, I discussed some of the rationale behind FUSE and a basic introduction to why we […]

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GFS: a Graph-based File System Enhanced with Semantic Features

GFS: a Graph-based File System Enhanced with Semantic FeaturesDaniele Di Sarli and Filippo Geraci, Proceedings of the 2017 International Conference on Information System and Data Mining, pp. 51-55, Charleston, SC, US. In this paper we describe GFS (graph-based file system) a new hybrid file system that extends the standard hierarchical organization of files with semantic […]

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Collaboration versus Cheating

Collaboration Versus Cheating: Reducing Code Plagiarism in an Online MS Computer Science Program Tony Mason, Ada Gavrilovska, and David A. Joyner, Proceedings of the 50th ACM Technical Symposium on Computer Science Education, pp. 1004-1010, Minneapolis, MN, February 27 – March 2, 2019. This is a rather different paper than my usual but I thought I […]

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Eurosys 2019

I attended Eurosys 2019 last month and in fact just returned from that trip, as I added three weeks of vacation to the end of it, though the first week had me spending most of the time in a hotel room working on a paper for submission. I attended the doctoral workshop at Eurosys to […]

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Boosting Timestamp-based Transactional Memory by Exploiting Hardware Cycle Counters

Boosting Timestamp-based Transactional Memory by Exploiting Hardware Cycle Counters Wenjia Ruan, Yujie Liu, and Michael Spear, in ACM Transactions on Architecture and Code Optimization (TACO), Volume 10, Number 4, page 40, 2013, ACM. This paper is interesting in its use of a system level global clock to define a strong ordering of operations across cores.  The […]

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NVMCached: An NVM-based Key-Value Cache

NVMCached: An NVM-based Key-Value Cache Xingbo Wu, Fan Ni, Li Zhang, Yandong Wang, Yufei Ren, Michel Hack, Zili Shao, and Song Jiang, in Proceedings of the 7th ACM SIGOPS Asia-Pacific Workshop on Systems, 2016. This is a short (6 page) paper that discusses the challenges of taking a memory based key-value cache (e.g., memcached) and converting […]

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The Future of Synchronization on Multicores: The Mulitcore Transformation

The Future of Synchronization on Multicores: The Multicore Transformation Maurice Herlihy in Ubiquity, September 2014. I’m going to round out the week with a much lighter read.  Despite this, it has some useful observations that underlie some of the other papers that I’ve been discussing. The editor’s introduction to this piece really does a good job […]

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Exploiting Hardware Transactional Memory in Main-Memory Databases

Exploiting Hardware Transactional Memory in Main-Memory Databases Viktor Leis, Alfons Kemper, Thomas Neumann in 2014 IEEE 30th International Conference on Data Engineering, pp 580-591. I have not spent much time discussing transactional memory previously, though I have touched upon it in prior work.  By the time this paper was presented, transactional memory had been fairly well explored […]

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