awesome-system-paper-list

A list for computer system papers reading

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Operating Systems, System Software and Runtimes

Workload and Application Survey

Profiling Survey

• Profiling a warehouse-scale computer ISCA15

Other Related

• Telescope: Telemetry for Gargantuan Memory Footprint Applications ATC24
• Ripple: Profile-Guided Instruction Cache Replacement for Data Center Applications ISCA21

Disaggregate memory

Survey

• Disaggregated Memory in the Datacenter: A Survey

RDMA Swap Approach

• Efficient Memory Disaggregation with Infiniswap NSDI17
• LegoOS OSDI18
• Can Far Memory Improve Job Throughput? (Fastswap) Eurosys20
• Semeru OSDI20
• Hermit NSDI23
• Canvas NSDI23
• Atlas OSDI24
• Carbink OSDI22

Library-based Approach

• AIFM: High-Performance, Application-Integrated Far Memory OSDI20

Network and Distributed Systems

Interconnect Optimization

• LITE Kernel RDMA Support for Datacenter Applications (ucsd.edu) SOSP17

Schedule

• Shenago NSDI19
• Caladan OSDI20
• Junction NSDI24

Distributed

• Nu NSDI23

RPC

• Datacenter RPCs can be General and Fast NSDI19

Exploring Unused Hardware Resource

SMT

• Stretch: Balancing QoS and Throughput for Colocated Server Workloads on SMT Cores HPCA19
• Enhancements for Hyper-Threading Technology in the Operating System WIESS02

Cache OPT

• Ripple: Profile-Guided Instruction Cache Replacement for Data Center Applications

PL4Sys

• Harvesting Idle Memory for Application-Managed Soft State with Midas NSDI24

Microservice

• CRISP: Critical Path Analysis of Large-Scale Microservice Architectures ATC22
• Datacenter Architectures for the Microservices EraPhd dissertion

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Architecture

CPU ARCH

Performance Analysis

Top-Down Analysis (TMA)

• A Top-Down Method for Performance Analysis and Counters Architecture ISPASS14

Micro Analysis

• uops.info: Characterizing Latency, Throughput, and Port Usage of Instructions on Intel Microarchitectures (arxiv.org) ASPLOS19

Cache && TLB Improvement

• Improving the Utilization of Micro-operation Caches in x86 Processors MICRO20
• Rebooting Virtual Memory with Midgard ISCA21

ICache

• Ripple: Profile-Guided Instruction Cache Replacement for Data Center Applications ISCA21

Cache Coherence

• Impact of Cache Coherence on the Performance of Shared-Memory based MPI Primitives: A Case Study for Broadcast on Intel Xeon Scalable Processors ICPP23

Emerging Hardware

CXL

• Pond: CXL-Based Memory Pooling Systems for Cloud Platforms (huaicheng.github.io) ASPLOS23

Programming Languages

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Code Translation

• Don’t Write, but Return: Replacing Output Parameters with Algebraic Data Types in C-to-Rust Translation PLDI24

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