Operating system noise is a well-known problem that may limit application scalability on
large-scale machines, significantly reducing their performance. Though the problem is well …

As modern network infrastructure moves from hardware-based to software-based using
Network Function Virtualization, a new set of requirements is raised for operating system …

Various studies have shown that OS jitter can degrade parallel program performance
considerably at large processor counts. Most sources of system jitter fall broadly into 5 …

There are a number of challenges facing the High Performance Computing (HPC)
community, including increasing levels of concurrency (threads, cores, nodes), deeper and …

Sensing and processing peripheral input is a ubiquitous capability of personal computers.
Text entry on physical and virtual keyboards, mouse pointer motion, and touchscreen …

Massively multiplayer online games have become increasingly popular. However, their
operation is costly, as game servers must be maintained. To reduce these costs, we aim at …

To realize the performance potential of multicore systems, we must effectively manage the
interactions between memory reference behavior and the operating system policies for …

Despite significant advances in reducing system noise, the scalability and performance of
scientific applications running on production commodity clusters today continue to suffer …

Several techniques have been proposed to improve the performance of Parallel Discrete
Event Simulation platforms relying on the Time Warp (optimistic) synchronization protocol …

The wall-clock execution time of applications on HPC clusters is commonly subject to run-to-
run variation, often caused by external interference from concurrently running jobs. Because …