2 papers
cs.OS2019
Cichlid: Explicit physical memory management for large machines
Simon Gerber, Gerd Zellweger, Reto Achermann +4
In this paper, we rethink how an OS supports virtual memory. Classical VM is an opaque abstraction of RAM, backed by demand paging. However, most systems today (from phones to data…
cs.DC2018
Megaphone: Latency-conscious state migration for distributed streaming dataflows
Moritz Hoffmann, Andrea Lattuada, Frank McSherry +3
We design and implement Megaphone, a data migration mechanism for stateful distributed dataflow engines with latency objectives. When compared to existing migration mechanisms, Meg…