Revisiting Distributed Memory in the CXL Era

Message Passing V.S Distributed Shared Memory As Moore’s Law slows down, horizontal scaling has become the predominant strategy for enhancing system performance. Nonetheless, the inherent complexities of distributed programming present substantial challenges in creating efficient, correct, and resilient systems. Streamlining this process remains a fundamental objective of distributed programming frameworks. In the realm of distributed … Read more

Perspect — Exploiting essential characteristics of performance issues for automatic performance diagnosis 

Editor’s Note: Perspect is an innovative performance debugging tool developed by Jenny Ren and the team. It introduces a novel concept known as Relational Debugging. The key idea of relational debugging is to analyze the “relation” between runtime events and use relations to explain performance issues. In her OSDI’23 paper, Jenny makes the analogy between … Read more

K.I.S.S.: Keep It Simple, Smart! 

The end of October 2023 was an exciting time, since the 29th ACM Symposium on Operating Systems Principles (SOSP ’23) took place in Koblenz, Germany and the 14th ACM Symposium on Cloud Computing (SoCC ’23) in Santa Cruz, CA, USA. Both conferences featured exciting keynote talks, paper presentations and poster sessions with attendees from all … Read more

Artifact evaluation, theory and practice

Previously on the SIGOPS blog, we discussed the current status of artifact evaluation (AE) and how to improve it. At HotOS’23, we took another step in this direction: attendees discussed artifact evaluation in a panel led by Shriram Krishnamurthi (Brown), Margo Seltzer (UBC), and Neeraja Yadwadkar (UT Austin), and organized by Roberta De Viti (MPI-SWS), … Read more