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Distributed Computing with Modern Shared Memory

Mihail Igor Zablotchi

In this thesis, we revisit classic problems in shared-memory distributed computing through the lenses of (1) emerging hardware technologies and (2) changing requirements. Our contributions consist, on the one hand, in providing a better understanding of th ...

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Scaling Byzantine Fault Tolerance

Matej Pavlovic

Online services are becoming more and more ubiquitous and keep growing in scale. At the same time, they are required to be highly available, secure, energy-efficient, and to achieve high performance. To ensure these (and many other) properties, replication ...

EPFL2019

Managing Tail Latency in Datacenter-Scale File Systems Under Production Constraints

Willy Zwaenepoel, Ricardo Bianchini, Maria Fernanda Borge Chavez

Distributed file systems often exhibit high tail latencies, especially in large-scale datacenters and in the presence of competing (and possibly higher priority) workloads. This paper introduces techniques for managing tail latencies in these systems, whil ...

ASSOC COMPUTING MACHINERY2019

Scalable Synchronization in Shared-Memory Systems: Extrapolating, Adapting, Tuning

Georgios Chatzopoulos

As hardware evolves, so do the needs of applications. To increase the performance of an application, there exist two well-known approaches. These are scaling up an application, using a larger multi-core platform, or scaling out, by distributing work to mul ...

EPFL2018

Passing Messages while Sharing Memory

Rachid Guerraoui, Naama Ben David

We introduce a new distributed computing model called m&m that allows processes to both pass messages and share memory. Motivated by recent hardware trends, we find that this model improves the power of the pure message-passing and shared-memory models. As ...

ASSOC COMPUTING MACHINERY2018

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

Network-Compute Co-Design for Distributed In-Memory Computing

Alexandros Daglis

The booming popularity of online services is rapidly raising the demands for modern datacenters. In order to cope with data deluge, growing user bases, and tight quality of service constraints, service providers deploy massive datacenters with tens to hund ...

EPFL2018

Caching and Distributed Storage

Saeid Sahraei

A simple task of storing a database or transferring it to a different point via a communication channel turns far more complex as the size of the database grows large. Limited bandwidth available for transmission plays a central role in this predicament. I ...

EPFL2018

The Disclosure Power of Shared Objects

Rachid Guerraoui, Mihail Igor Zablotchi, Julien Michel Stainer, Peva François Blanchard

Shared objects are the means by which processes gather and exchange information about the state of a distributed system. Objects that disclose more information about the system are therefore more desirable. In this paper, we propose the schedule reconstruc ...

2017

Right On Time Distributed Shared Memory

Rachid Guerraoui, David Kozhaya, Yvonne Anne Pignolet-Oswald

The demand for real-time data storage in distributed control systems (DCSs) is growing. Yet, providing real- time DCS guarantees is challenging, especially when more and more sensor and actuator devices are connected to industrial plants and message loss n ...

2016