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Energy becomes an inevitable challenge when using a large die-stacking DRAM cache as part of memory. Emerging volatile STT-RAM can be integrated with DRAM as a software-managed hybrid cache to effectively reduce the static and dynamic energy of large ...

Cloud computing has enabled economical resources, such as storage and VMs, that allow applications to be hosted online at low cost. The pay-as-you-go model in the cloud also enables elasticity. However, some stateful services like memory caches are not ...

The Internet of Things is connecting billions of devices and blurring the distinction between the physical and virtual world. However, to unlock the full potential and achieve economies-of-scale, focus should shift from IoT deployment aimed at a single ...

A lot of research work is put into reducing the power consumption of datacenters. Some works seek to improve the power efficiency of one server, but as of now the ideal state of power proportionality is only approached with a higher workload. Meanwhile, ...

Supercomputing platforms have developed over the years to maximize performance and scalability and to minimize any abstractions that could result in slowdowns and performance variability. Largescale supercomputing systems traditionally tightly integrate ...

Public cloud data centers often suffer from low resource utilization [1]. To increase utilization, recent works have proposed running batch workloads next to customer VMs to leverage idle resources [6]. While effective, the key challenge here is ...

Multipath TCP is the de facto multipath protocol in today's Internet. In this demo, we show how the recently proposed ProgMP programming model for Multipath TCP scheduling enables application- and preference-aware Multipath TCP scheduling within the ...

Since the introduction of Bitcoin in 2008, blockchain systems have evolved immensely in terms of performance and usability. There is a massive focus on building enterprise blockchain solutions, with providers such as IBM and Microsoft already providing ...

Massively multiplayer online role-playing games (MMORPGs) allow thousands of players to interact with each other in a large-scale virtual environment. Interest management is an important technique used to raise the scalability of a game by limiting the ...

Following the success of Bitcoin, Ethereum and Hyperledger, blockchains are now gaining widespread adoption in a wide variety of applications, using a diversity of distributed ledger systems with varying characteristics. Yet, beyond the original bitcoin ...

In-app advertising has become a significant source of revenue for mobile apps. Mobile contextual advertising is one of the recent approaches to improve the effectiveness of in-app advertising, which seeks to target an app page content that a user is ...

Building scalable, highly available publish/subscribe (pub/sub) systems can require sophisticated algorithms and a tremendous amount of engineering effort. This paper demonstrates a way to build a pub/sub broker on top of the OpenWhisk serverless ...