Publications by Baptiste Joseph Eustache Lepers

Drowsy-DC: Data center power management system

Willy Zwaenepoel, Baptiste Joseph Eustache Lepers, Mathieu Paul Fernand Bacou

In a modern data center (DC), a large majority of costs arise from energy consumption. The most popular technique used to mitigate this issue is virtualization and more precisely virtual machine (VM) consolidation. Although consolidation may increase serve ...

IEEE2019

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 ...

2018

Placement of Virtual Containers on NUMA systems: A Practical and Comprehensive Model

Baptiste Joseph Eustache Lepers

Our work addresses the problem of placement of threads, or virtual cores, onto physical cores in a multicore NUMA system. Different placements result in varying degrees of contention for shared resources, so choosing the right placement can have a large ef ...

USENIX ASSOC2018

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

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

Towards Proving Optimistic Multicore Schedulers

Willy Zwaenepoel, Baptiste Joseph Eustache Lepers

Operating systems have been shown to waste machine resources by leaving cores idle while work is ready to be scheduled. This results in suboptimal performance for user applications, and wasted power. Recent progress in formal verification methods have led ...

2017

Challenges of Memory Management on Modern NUMA Systems

Baptiste Joseph Eustache Lepers, Mohammad Dashti Rahmat Abadi

The latency of memory access times is hence non-uniform, because it depends on where the request originates and where it is destined to go. Such systems are referred to as nonuniform memory access (or NUMA). Current x86 NUMA systems are cache coherent (cal ...

Assoc Computing Machinery2015