Publications related to MOOLs for MOOCs: A first edX scalable implementation

Task Scheduling for Highly Concurrent Analytical and Transactional Main-Memory Workloads

Task scheduling typically employs a worker thread per hardware context to process a dynamically changing set of tasks. It is an appealing solution to exploit modern multi-core processors, as it eases parallelization and avoids unnecessary context switches ...

2013

From A to E: Analyzing TPC’s OLTP Benchmarks -- The obsolete, the ubiquitous, the unexplored

Anastasia Ailamaki, Pinar Tözün, Ippokratis Pandis, Ilknur Cansu Kaynak, Dorde Jevdic

Introduced in 2007, TPC-E is the most recently standardized OLTP benchmark by TPC. Even though TPC-E has already been around for six years, it has not gained the popularity of its predecessor TPC-C: all the published results for TPC-E use a single database ...

2013

Scalability of write-ahead logging on multicore and multisocket hardware

Anastasia Ailamaki, Frederick Ryan Johnson, Manoussos Gavriil Athanassoulis, Radu Ioan Stoica, Ippokratis Pandis

The shift to multi-core and multi-socket hardware brings new challenges to database systems, as the software parallelism determines performance. Even though database systems traditionally accommodate simultaneous requests, a multitude of synchronization ba ...

2012

Randomized versus Deterministic Implementations of Concurrent Data Structures

Dan Alistarh

One of the key trends in computing over the past two decades has been increased distribution, both at the processor level, where multi-core architectures are now the norm, and at the system level, where many key services are currently distributed overmulti ...

EPFL2012

Deadlock Immunity : Enabling General-Purpose Software to Defend Itself against Deadlocks

Horatiu Jula

Deadlock immunity is a property by which programs, once afflicted by a deadlock, develop resistance against future occurrences of that deadlock. We enable real applications to automatically achieve immunity against deadlock bugs involving mutex locks, sema ...

EPFL2011