Publications de Arash Pourhabibi Zarandi

Hardware-Software Co-Design of an RPC Processor

The booming popularity of online services has led to a major evolution in the way these services are built and deployed. To cope with such online data-intensive services, service providers deploy several massive-scale datacenters, also referred to as wareh ...

EPFL2021

Cerebros: Evading the RPC Tax in Datacenters

Babak Falsafi, Alexandros Daglis, Arash Pourhabibi Zarandi, Mark Johnathon Sutherland

The emerging paradigm of microservices decomposes online services into fine-grained software modules frequently communicating over the datacenter network, often using Remote Procedure Calls (RPCs). Ongoing advancements in the network stack have exposed the ...

2021

Equinox: Training (for Free) on a Custom Inference Accelerator

Babak Falsafi, Ahmet Caner Yüzügüler, Mario Paulo Drumond Lages De Oliveira, Arash Pourhabibi Zarandi, Louis Coulon, Martin Jaggi

DNN inference accelerators executing online services exhibit low average loads because of service demand variability, leading to poor resource utilization. Unfortunately, reclaiming idle inference cycles is difficult as other workloads can not execute on a ...

ACM2021

Data transformer apparatus

Babak Falsafi, Christoph Koch, Hussein Kassir, Mario Paulo Drumond Lages De Oliveira, Arash Pourhabibi Zarandi, Mark Johnathon Sutherland, Zilu Tian, Siddharth Gupta

Data transformer apparatus comprising at least a dispatcher module (D), a reader module (R), a converter module (C) and a writer module (W). The dispatcher module (D) is configured to: receive a data transformation request (DTR) including: a first informat ...

2021

Optimus Prime: Accelerating Data Transformation in Servers

Babak Falsafi, Christoph Koch, Hussein Kassir, Mario Paulo Drumond Lages De Oliveira, Arash Pourhabibi Zarandi, Mark Johnathon Sutherland, Zilu Tian, Siddharth Gupta

Modern online services are shifting away from monolithic applications to loosely-coupled microservices because of their improved scalability, reliability, programmability and development velocity. Microservices communicating over the datacenter network req ...

ACM2020

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