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Rock You like a Hurricane: Taming Skew in Large Scale Analytics

Willy Zwaenepoel, Nicolas Schiper, Laurent Bindschaedler, Jasmina Malicevic, Ashvin Goel

Current cluster computing frameworks suffer from load imbalance and limited parallelism due to skewed data distributions, processing times, and machine speeds. We observe that the underlying cause for these issues in current systems is that they partition ...

2018

Causal Consistency and Latency Optimality: Friend or Foe? [Extended Version]

Rachid Guerraoui, Willy Zwaenepoel, Diego Didona, Junxiong Wang

Causal consistency is an attractive consistency model for geo-replicated data stores. It is provably the strongest model that tolerates network partitions. It avoids the long latencies associated with strong consistency, and, especially when using read-onl ...

2018

Scrub: Online TroubleShooting for Large Mission-Critical Applications

Willy Zwaenepoel

Scrub is a troubleshooting tool for distributed applications that operate under strict SLOs common in production environments. It allows users to formulate queries on events occurring during execution in order to assess the correctness of the application’s ...

2018

Causal Consistency and Latency Optimality: Friend or Foe?

Rachid Guerraoui, Willy Zwaenepoel, Diego Didona, Junxiong Wang

ASSOC COMPUTING MACHINERY2018

The Battle of the Schedulers: FreeBSD ULE vs. Linux CFS

Willy Zwaenepoel, Baptiste Joseph Eustache Lepers, Sébastien Chevalley, Justinien Gérard Alain Bouron

This paper analyzes the impact on application performance of the design and implementation choices made in two widely used open-source schedulers: ULE, the default FreeBSD scheduler, and CFS, the default Linux scheduler. We compare ULE and CFS in otherwise ...

USENIX ASSOC2018

Wren: Nonblocking Reads in a Partitioned Transactional Causally Consistent Data Store

Willy Zwaenepoel, Diego Didona, Kristina Spirovska

Transactional Causal Consistency (TCC) extends causal consistency, the strongest consistency model compatible with availability, with interactive read-write transactions, and is therefore particularly appealing for geo-replicated platforms. This paper pres ...

2018

Kairos: Preemptive Data Center Scheduling Without Runtime Estimates

Willy Zwaenepoel, Pamela Isabel Delgado Borda, Diego Didona, Florin Dinu

The vast majority of data center schedulers use task runtime estimates to improve the quality of their scheduling decisions. Knowledge about runtimes allows the schedulers, among other things, to achieve better load balance and to avoid head-of-line blocki ...

2018

Distributed Transactions: Dissecting the Nightmare

Rachid Guerraoui, Willy Zwaenepoel, Diego Didona, Junxiong Wang

Many distributed storage systems are transactional and a lot of work has been devoted to optimizing their performance, especially the performance of read-only transactions that are considered the most frequent in practice. Yet, the results obtained so far ...

2018

An Analytical Model of Hardware Transactional Memory

Willy Zwaenepoel, Paolo Romano, Diego Didona

This paper investigates the problem of deriving a white box performance model of Hardware Transactional Memory (HTM) systems. The proposed model targets TSX, a popular implementation of HTM integrated in Intel processors starting with the Haswell family in ...

2017

Everything You Always Wanted to Know about Multicore Graph Processing but Were Afraid to Ask

Willy Zwaenepoel, Baptiste Joseph Eustache Lepers, Jasmina Malicevic

Graph processing systems are used in a wide variety of fields, ranging from biology to social networks, and a large number of such systems have been described in the recent literature. We perform a systematic comparison of various techniques proposed to sp ...

USENIX Association2017

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