Publications de Javier Picorel Obando

uKharon: A Membership Service for Microsecond Applications

Rachid Guerraoui, Javier Picorel Obando, Athanasios Xygkis, Antoine Murat

Modern data center fabrics open the possibility of microsecond distributed applications, such as data stores and message queues. A challenging aspect of their development is to ensure that, besides being fast in the common case, these applications react fa ...

USENIX Association2023

Design Guidelines for High-Performance SCM Hierarchies

Babak Falsafi, Javier Picorel Obando, Alexandros Daglis, Edouard Bugnion, Dmitrii Ustiugov, Mark Johnathon Sutherland, Dionysios Pnevmatikatos

With emerging storage-class memory (SCM) nearing commercialization, there is evidence that it will deliver the much-anticipated high density and access latencies within only a fewfactors of DRAM. Nevertheless, the latency-sensitive nature of memory-residen ...

ACM2018

Near-Memory Address Translation

Babak Falsafi, Dorde Jevdic, Javier Picorel Obando

Memory and logic integration on the same chip is becoming increasingly cost effective, creating the opportunity to offload data-intensive functionality to processing units placed inside memory chips. The introduction of memory-side processing units (MPUs) ...

Ieee2017

The Mondrian Data Engine

Babak Falsafi, Javier Picorel Obando, Boris Robert Grot, Alexandros Daglis, Nooshin Sadat Mirzadeh, Dmitrii Ustiugov, Mario Paulo Drumond Lages De Oliveira, Dionysios Pnevmatikatos

The increasing demand for extracting value out of ever-growing data poses an ongoing challenge to system designers, a task only made trickier by the end of Dennard scaling. As the performance density of traditional CPU-centric architectures stagnates, adva ...

2017

Near-Memory Address Translation

Javier Picorel Obando

Virtual memory (VM) is a crucial abstraction in modern computer systems at any scale, from handheld devices to datacenters. VM provides programmers the illusion of an always sufficiently large and linear memory, making programming easier. Although the core ...

EPFL2017

Unlocking Energy

Rachid Guerraoui, Babak Falsafi, Javier Picorel Obando, Vasileios Trigonakis

Locks are a natural place for improving the energy efficiency of software systems. First, concurrent systems are mainstream and when their threads synchronize, they typically do it with locks. Second, locks are well-defined abstractions, hence changing the ...

Usenix Assoc2016

Towards Near-Threshold Server Processors

David Atienza Alonso, Luca Benini, Pablo Garcia del Valle, Babak Falsafi, Javier Picorel Obando, Ali Pahlevan, Arash Pourhabibi Zarandi, Marina Zapater Sancho

The popularity of cloud computing has led to a dramatic increase in the number of data centers in the world. The ever-increasing computational demands along with the slowdown in technology scaling has ushered an era of power-limited servers. Techniques suc ...

IEEE/ACM2016

BuMP: Bulk Memory Access Prediction and Streaming

Babak Falsafi, Stavros Volos, Javier Picorel Obando, Boris Robert Grot

With the end of Dennard scaling, server power has emerged as the limiting factor in the quest for more capable datacenters. Without the benefit of supply voltage scaling, it is essential to lower the energy per operation to improve server efficiency. As th ...

2014

Meet the Walkers: Accelerating Index Traversals for In-Memory Databases

Babak Falsafi, Yusuf Onur Koçberber, Javier Picorel Obando, Boris Robert Grot, Kevin Lim

The explosive growth in digital data and its growing role in real-time decision support motivate the design of high-performance database management systems (DBMSs). Meanwhile, slowdown in supply voltage scaling has stymied improvements in core performance ...

2013

Scale-Out Processors

Babak Falsafi, Michael Ferdman, Pejman Lotfi Kamran, Stavros Volos, Al Mutaz Adileh, Dorde Jevdic, Yusuf Onur Koçberber, Javier Picorel Obando, Boris Robert Grot

Scale-out datacenters mandate high per-server throughput to get the maximum benefit from the large TCO investment. Emerging applications (e.g., data serving and web search) that run in these datacenters operate on vast datasets that are not accommodated by ...

Ieee2012