3 papers
cs.DC2026
Aquifer: Hierarchical Memory Pooling with CXL and RDMA for MicroVM Snapshots
Junliang Hu, Huaicheng Li, Ming-Chang Yang
Memory stranding wastes 25-35% of installed DRAM in production cloud clusters. Memory pooling over CXL and RDMA offers a remedy, but neither technology alone suffices: CXL provides…
cs.LG2026
Unifying Sparse Attention with Hierarchical Memory for Scalable Long-Context LLM Serving
Zihan Zhao, Baotong Lu, Shengjie Lin +8
Long-context LLM serving is bottlenecked by the cost of attending over ever-growing KV caches. Dynamic sparse attention promises relief by accessing only a small, query-dependent s…
cs.PF2025
The Unwritten Contract of Cloud-based Elastic Solid-State Drives
Yingjia Wang, Ming-Chang Yang
Elastic block storage (EBS) with the storage-compute disaggregated architecture stands as a pivotal piece in today's cloud. EBS furnishes users with storage capabilities through th…