Publications related to Application virtualization

CloudProphet: A Machine Learning-Based Performance Prediction for Public Clouds

David Atienza Alonso, Marina Zapater Sancho, Luis Maria Costero Valero, Darong Huang, Ali Pahlevan

Computing servers have played a key role in developing and processing emerging compute-intensive applications in recent years. Consolidating multiple virtual machines (VMs) inside one server to run various applications introduces severe competence for limi ...

2024

Dynamic power budget redistribution under a power cap on multi-application environments

Luis Maria Costero Valero

We present a two-level implementation of an infrastructure that allows performance maximization under a power-cap on multi-application environments with minimal user intervention. At the application level, we integrate BAR (Power Budget-Aware Runtime Sched ...

ELSEVIER2023

JIT works: decide when all data is known (VLDB Women in Database Research Award talk)

Anastasia Ailamaki

When the time comes to make a critical decision, it is of paramount importance to prepare enough so that all the information necessary is available at decision time. Under-preparation leads to uninformed decisions; over-preparation, however, may lead to co ...

ASSOC COMPUTING MACHINERY2020

Multi-Objective System-Level Management of Modern Green Data Centers

Ali Pahlevan

In our modern society, the average citizen has turned into a daily cloud user. Despite being virtually transparent for the user, internet services require data centers behind the scenes. Data centers burn several megawatts of power and their electricity bi ...

EPFL2019

Placement of Virtual Containers on NUMA systems: A Practical and Comprehensive Model

Baptiste Joseph Eustache Lepers

Our work addresses the problem of placement of threads, or virtual cores, onto physical cores in a multicore NUMA system. Different placements result in varying degrees of contention for shared resources, so choosing the right placement can have a large ef ...

USENIX ASSOC2018

Virtualized Execution Runtime for FPGA Accelerators in the Cloud

Paolo Ienne, Mikhail Asiatici, Nithin George

FPGAs offer high performance coupled with energy efficiency making them extremely attractive computational resources within a cloud ecosystem. However, to achieve this integration and make them easy to program, we first need to enable users with varying ex ...

2017

The IX Operating System: Combining Low Latency, High Throughput, and Efficiency in a Protected Dataplan

Edouard Bugnion, Christos Kozyrakis, Georgios Prekas, Mia Primorac, Ana Klimovic

The conventional wisdom is that aggressive networking requirements, such as high packet rates for small messages and μs-scale tail latency, are best addressed outside the kernel, in a user-level networking stack. We present ix, a dataplane operating system ...

Association for Computing Machinery2016

Designing a Virtual Runtime for FPGA Accelerators in the Cloud

Paolo Ienne, Mikhail Asiatici, Nithin George

FPGAs can provide high performance and energy efficiency to many applications; therefore, they are attractive computing platforms in a cloud environment. However, FPGA application development requires extensive hardware design knowledge which significantly ...

Ieee2016

Reliable and Real-Time Distributed Abstractions

David Kozhaya

The celebrated distributed computing approach for building systems and services using multiple machines continues to expand to new domains. Computation devices nowadays have additional sensing and communication capabilities, while becoming, at the same tim ...

EPFL2016

Laboratory as a Service (LaaS): a Model for Developing and Implementing Remote Laboratories as Modular Components

Denis Gillet, Christophe Salzmann, Mohamed Tawfik

This contribution introduces a novel model, Laboratory as a Service (LaaS), for developing remote laboratories as independent component modules and implementing them as a set of loosely-coupled services to be consumed with a high level of abstraction and v ...

IEEE2014

IX: A Protected Dataplane Operating System for High Throughput and Low Latency

Edouard Bugnion, Christos Kozyrakis, Georgios Prekas, Ana Klimovic

The conventional wisdom is that aggressive networking requirements, such as high packet rates for small messages and microsecond-scale tail latency, are best addressed outside the kernel, in a user-level networking stack. We present IX, a dataplane operati ...

USENIX2014

Accelerating resource allocation in virtualized environments using workload classes and/or workload signatures

Dejan Novakovic, Dejan Kostic, Nedeljko Vasic, Ricardo Bianchini

Systems, methods, and apparatus for managing resources assigned to an application or service. A resource manager maintains a set of workload classes and classifies workloads using workload signatures. In specific embodiments, the resource manager minimizes ...

2013

DejaVu: Accelerating Resource Allocation in Virtualized Environments

Dejan Novakovic, Dejan Kostic, Nedeljko Vasic, Ricardo Bianchini

Effective resource management of virtualized environments is a challenging task. State-of-the-art management systems either rely on analytical models or evaluate resource allocations by running actual experiments. However, both approaches incur a significa ...

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Performance Profiling of Virtual Machines

Willy Zwaenepoel, Jiaqing Du

Profilers based on hardware performance counters are indispensable for performance debugging of complex software systems. All modern processors feature hardware performance counters, but current virtual machine monitors (VMMs) do not properly expose them t ...

2011

Performance Profiling in a Virtualized Environment

Willy Zwaenepoel, Jiaqing Du

Virtualization is a key enabling technology for cloud computing. Many applications deployed in a cloud run in virtual machines. However, profilers based on CPU performance counters do not work well in a virtualized environment. In this paper, we explore th ...

2010

Language Virtualization for Heterogeneous Parallel Computing

Martin Odersky, Tiark Rompf, Hassan Chafi

As heterogeneous parallel systems become dominant, application developers are being forced to turn to an incompatible mix of low level programming models (e.g. OpenMP, MPI, CUDA, OpenCL). However, these models do little to shield developers from the diffic ...

2010

A Realistic Simulator for the Design and Evaluation of Intelligent Vehicles

Alcherio Martinoli, Sven Adrian Gowal

The number of vehicles hitting the road each day is rapidly increasing, and several problems, such as traffic conges- tion or driver safety, can no longer be solved in the same fashion as before. Intelligent transportation systems could potentially solve p ...

2010

Scalable instruction set simulator for thousand-core architectures running on GPGPUs

David Atienza Alonso, Luca Benini, Martino Ruggiero, Shivani Raghav

Simulators are still the primary tools for development and performance evaluation of applications running on massively parallel architectures. However, current virtual platforms are not able to tackle the complexity issues introduced by 1000-core future sc ...

IEEE Press2010

Optimizing network performance in virtual machines

Aravind Menon

In recent years, there has been a rapid growth in the adoption of virtual machine technology in data centers and cluster environments. This trend towards server virtualization is driven by two main factors: the savings in hardware cost that can be achieved ...

EPFL2009

TwinDrivers: Semi-Automatic Derivation of Fast and Safe Hypervisor Network Drivers from Guest OS Drivers

Willy Zwaenepoel, Aravind Menon, Simon Schubert

In a virtualized environment, device drivers are often run inside a virtual machine (VM) rather than in the hypervisor. Doing so protects the hypervisor from bugs in the driver, and also allows the reuse of the device driver and its support infrastructure ...

ACM2009