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Improving Scalability of Symbolic Execution for Software with Complex Environment Interfaces

Manual software testing is laborious and prone to human error. Yet, among practitioners, it is the most popular method for quality assurance. Automating the test case generation promises better effectiveness, especially for exposing corner-case bugs. Symbo ...

EPFL2015

How to Stop Under-Utilization and Love Multicores

Anastasia Ailamaki, Danica Porobic, Pinar Tözün, Iraklis Psaroudakis, Erietta Liarou

Designing scalable transaction processing systems on modern hardware has been a challenge for almost a decade. Hardware trends oblige software to overcome three major challenges against systems scalability: (1) Exploiting the abundant thread-level parallel ...

2014

Top-Down Fabrication of Gate-All-Around Vertically-Stacked Silicon Nanowire FETs with Controllable Polarity

Giovanni De Micheli, Yusuf Leblebici, Pierre-Emmanuel Julien Marc Gaillardon, Davide Sacchetto, Jian Zhang, Michele De Marchi

Asthe currentMOSFET scaling trend is facing strong limitations, technologies exploiting novel degrees of freedom at physical and architecture level are promising candidates to enable the continuation of Moore's predictions. In this paper, we report on the ...

Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers2014

Prototyping Symbolic Execution Engines for Interpreted Languages

George Candea, Johannes Kinder, Stefan Bucur

Symbolic execution is being successfully used to automatically test statically compiled code. However, increasingly more systems and applications are written in dynamic interpreted languages like Python. Building a new symbolic execution engine is a monume ...

ACM2014

Transactions Chasing Scalability and Instruction Locality on Multicores

Pinar Tözün

For several decades, online transaction processing (OLTP) has been one of the main server applications that drives innovations in the data management ecosystem, and in turn the database and computer architecture communities. Recent hardware trends oblige s ...

EPFL2014

Markov Decision Process Based Energy-Efficient Scheduling For Slice-Parallel Video Decoding

David Atienza Alonso, Karim Kanoun

We consider the problem of energy-efficient scheduling for slice-parallel video decoders on multicore systems with Dynamic Voltage Frequency Scaling (DVFS) enabled processors. We rigorously formulate the problem as a Markov decision process (MDP), which si ...

IEEE Press2013

From A to E: Analyzing TPC’s OLTP Benchmarks -- The obsolete, the ubiquitous, the unexplored

Anastasia Ailamaki, Ippokratis Pandis, Pinar Tözün, Dorde Jevdic, Ilknur Cansu Kaynak

Introduced in 2007, TPC-E is the most recently standardized OLTP benchmark by TPC. Even though TPC-E has already been around for six years, it has not gained the popularity of its predecessor TPC-C: all the published results for TPC-E use a single database ...

2013

Markov Decision Process Based Energy-Efficient On-Line Scheduling for Slice Parallel Video Decoders on Multicore Systems

Pascal Frossard, David Atienza Alonso, Karim Kanoun

We consider the problem of energy-efficient on-line scheduling for slice-parallel video decoders on multicore systems. We assume that each of the processors are Dynamic Voltage Frequency Scaling (DVFS) enabled such that they can independently trade off per ...

Ieee-Inst Electrical Electronics Engineers Inc2013

Achieving high-throughput State Machine Replication in multi-core systems

André Schiper, Nuno Filipe de Sousa Santos

The traditional architecture used by implementations of Replicated State Machines (RSM) does not fully exploit modern multi-core CPUs. This is increasingly the limiting factor in their performance, because network speeds are increasing much faster than the ...

Ieee2013