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Javier Picorel Obando

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uKharon: A Membership Service for Microsecond Applications

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

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

SPARTA: A Divide and Conquer Approach to Address Translation for Accelerators

Babak Falsafi, Javier Picorel Obando, Abhishek Bhattacharjee

Virtual memory (VM) is critical to the usability and programmability of hardware accelerators. Unfortunately, implementing accelerator VM efficiently is challenging because the area and power constraints make it difficult to employ the large multi-level TL ...

2020

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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

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

The Mondrian Data Engine

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

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

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

Towards Near-Threshold Server Processors

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

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

Unlocking Energy

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

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

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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

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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

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