Virtual memory, specifically paging, is undergoing significant innovation due to being
challenged by new demands from modern workloads. Recent work has demonstrated an …

To support highly scalable and fine-grained computing paradigms such as microservices
and serverless computing better, modern hardware-assisted confidential computing …

Modern and emerging architectures demand increasingly complex compiler analyses and
transformations. As the emphasis on compiler infrastructure moves beyond support for …

Large memory workloads with favorable locality of reference can benefit by extending the
memory hierarchy across machines. Systems that enable such far memory configurations …

Virtual-to-physical memory translation is becoming an increasingly dominant cost in
workload execution; as data sizes scale, up to four memory accesses are required per …

The dynamic linker and loader has been one of the fundamental software, and more than
99% of binaries are dynamically linked on Ubuntu. On one hand, vendors are going to break …

OpenMP implementations make increasing demands on the kernel. We take the next step
and consider bringing OpenMP into the kernel. Our vision is that the entire OpenMP …

Virtual memory translation has become a key performance bottleneck of memory-intensive
workloads in virtualized cloud environments. On the x86 architecture, a nested translation …

The heap is a critical and widely used component of many applications. Due to its dynamic
nature, combined with the complexity of heap management algorithms, it is also a frequent …

The inability to relocate objects in unmanaged languages brings with it a menagerie of
problems. Perhaps the most impactful is memory fragmentation, which has long plagued …