Publications related to Runtime system

Latency Interfaces for Systems Code

This thesis demonstrates that it is feasible for systems code to expose a latency interface that describes its latency and related side effects for all inputs, just like the code's semantic interface describes its functionality and related side effects. S ...

EPFL2023

Silent Bugs Matter: A Study of Compiler-Introduced Security Bugs

Mathias Josef Payer, Jianhao Xu

Compilers assure that any produced optimized code is semantically equivalent to the original code. However, even "correct" compilers may introduce security bugs as security properties go beyond translation correctness. Security bugs introduced by such corr ...

Usenix Assoc2023

Decentralized in-order execution of a sequential task-based code for shared-memory architectures

Charly Nicolas Lucien Castes

The hardware complexity of modern machines makes the design of adequate programming models crucial for jointly ensuring performance, portability, and productivity in high-performance computing (HPC). Sequential task-based programming models paired with adv ...

IEEE COMPUTER SOC2022

Gemini: Elastic SNARKs for Diverse Environments

Alessandro Chiesa

We introduce a new class of succinct arguments, that we call elastic. Elastic SNARKs allow the prover to allocate different resources (such as memory and time) depending on the execution environment and the statement to prove. The resulting output is indep ...

SPRINGER INTERNATIONAL PUBLISHING AG2022

DASS: Combining Dynamic & Static Scheduling in High-Level Synthesis

Paolo Ienne, Lana Josipovic

A central task in high-level synthesis is scheduling: the allocation of operations to clock cycles. The classic approach to scheduling is static, in which each operation is mapped to a clock cycle at compile-time, but recent years have seen the emergence o ...

IEEE-INST ELECTRICAL ELECTRONICS ENGINEERS INC2022

The SparSpec algorithm and the application to the detection of spatial periodicities in tokamaks: from a 1D to a 2D analysis

Duccio Testa

A well-known, previously only 1D, algorithm using the Sparse Representation of Signals and an iterative Block Coordinate Descent method (the SparSpec-1D algorithm) has been further developed and tested in a 2D spatial domain to obtain the toroidal and polo ...

2022

Virtual ADTs for Portable Metaprogramming

Martin Odersky, Nicolas Alexander Stucki

Scala 3 provides a metaprogramming interface that represents the abstract syntax tree definitions using algebraic data types. To allow the compiler to freely evolve without breaking the metaprogramming interface, we present virtual algebraic data types (or ...

ASSOC COMPUTING MACHINERY2021

Exploiting Errors for Efficiency: A Survey from Circuits to Applications

Babak Falsafi, Alexandros Daglis, Eva Darulova, Mattia Cacciotti, Damien Zufferey, Dorde Jevdic, Sasa Misailovic

When a computational task tolerates a relaxation of its specification or when an algorithm tolerates the effects of noise in its execution, hardware, system software, and programming language compilers or their runtime systems can trade deviations from cor ...

ASSOC COMPUTING MACHINERY2020

Verification of Software Network Functions with No Verification Expertise

Arseniy Zaostrovnykh

Software network functions (NFs), such as a network address translator, load balancer, or proxy, promise to bring flexibility and rapid innovation to computer networks and to reduce operational costs. However, continuous updates and flexibility typically c ...

EPFL2020

Multi-Objective Management of Multiprocessor Systems: From Heuristics to Reinforcement Learning

Arman Iranfar

In my thesis, I reveal several already-existing and emerging challenges in multi-objective management of multiprocessor systems, and address them through novel solutions, from heuristics to RL, depending on the complexity of the problem. Conventional multi ...

EPFL2020

SAT-Based Exact Synthesis: Encodings, Topology Families, and Parallelism

Giovanni De Micheli, Mathias Soeken, Winston Jason Haaswijk

Exact synthesis is a versatile logic synthesis technique with applications to logic optimization, technology mapping, synthesis for emerging technologies, and cryptography. In recent years, advances in SAT solving have lead to a heightened research effort ...

2020

A Practical Unification of Multi-stage Programming and Macros

Martin Odersky, Nicolas Alexander Stucki

Program generation is indispensable. We propose a novel unification of two existing metaprogramming techniques: multi-stage programming and hygienic generative macros. The former supports runtime code generation and execution in a type-safe manner while th ...

2018

Object-Oriented Recovery for Non-volatile Memory

James Richard Larus, David Teksen Aksun, Nachshon Cohen

New non-volatile memory (NVM) technologies enable direct, durable storage of data in an application's heap. Durable, randomly accessible memory facilitates the construction of applications that do not lose data at system shutdown or power failure. Existing ...

ACM2018

SAT Based Exact Synthesis using DAG Topology Families

Giovanni De Micheli, Mathias Soeken, Winston Jason Haaswijk

SAT based exact synthesis is a powerful technique, with applications in logic optimization, technology mapping, and synthesis for emerging technologies. However, its runtime behavior can be unpredictable and slow. In this paper, we propose to add a new typ ...

IEEE2018

Exploring manycore architectures for next-generation HPC systems through the MANGO approach

David Atienza Alonso, Marina Zapater Sancho, Arman Iranfar, Simone Libutti

The Horizon 2020 MANGO project aims at exploring deeply heterogeneous accelerators for use in High Performance Computing systems running multiple applications with different Quality of Service (QoS) levels. The main goal of the project is to exploit custom ...

ELSEVIER SCIENCE BV2018

Cross-Platform Language Design

Sébastien Jean R Doeraene

Programming languages are increasingly compiled to multiple runtimes, each featuring their own rich structures such as their object model. Furthermore, they need to interact with other languages targeting said runtimes. A language targeting only one runtim ...

EPFL2018

Theory and Practice of Coroutines with Snapshots

Aleksandar Prokopec, Fengyun Liu

While event-driven programming is a widespread model for asynchronous computing, its inherent control flow fragmentation makes event-driven programs notoriously difficult to understand and maintain. Coroutines are a general control flow construct that can ...

2018

Type Soundness Proofs with Definitional Interpreters

Tiark Rompf, Nada Amin

While type soundness proofs are taught in every graduate PL class, the gap between realistic languages and what is accessible to formal proofs is large. In the case of Scala, it has been shown that its formal model, the Dependent Object Types (DOT) calculu ...

Assoc Computing Machinery2017

Unification of Compile-Time and Runtime Metaprogramming in Scala

Eugene Burmako

Metaprogramming is a technique that consists in writing programs that treat other programs as data. This paradigm of software development contributes to a multitude of approaches that improve programmer productivity, including code generation, program anal ...

EPFL2017

Safe and Efficient Deployment of Data-Parallelisable Applications on Many-Core Platforms: Theory and Practice

Giovanni De Micheli, Federico Angiolini, Alena Simalatsar, Stefanos Skalistis

The safe and, at the same time, efficient deployment of parallelisable applications on many-core platforms is a challenging task. Theoretical Models of Computation (MoC) require the realistic estimation of task Worst-Case Execution Time (WCET ...

2017