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OS-level virtualization

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Exploring brain-inspired multi-core heterogeneous hardware templates for low-power biomedical embedded systems

Benoît Walter Denkinger

The miniaturization of integrated circuits (ICs) and their higher performance and energy efficiency, combined with new machine learning algorithms and applications, have paved the way to intelligent, interconnected edge devices. In the medical domain, they ...

EPFL2023

Depth Camera and Electromagnetic Field Localization System For IoT Application - High level, lightweight data fusion

Yves Perriard, Alexis Boegli, Pooneh Mohaghegh

This article demonstrates person localization using a hybrid system consisting of an electromagnetic positioning system and a depth camera to authorize access control. The ultimate aim of this system is to distinguish moving people in a defined area by tra ...

Association for Computing Machinery2021

A system design for elastically scaling transaction processing engines in virtualized servers

Anastasia Ailamaki, Raja Appuswamy, Angelos Christos Anadiotis

Online Transaction Processing (OLTP) deployments are migrating from on-premise to cloud settings in order to exploit the elasticity of cloud infrastructure which allows them to adapt to workload variations. However, cloud adaptation comes at the cost of re ...

ASSOC COMPUTING MACHINERY2020

Placement of Virtual Containers on NUMA systems: A Practical and Comprehensive Model

Baptiste Joseph Eustache Lepers

Our work addresses the problem of placement of threads, or virtual cores, onto physical cores in a multicore NUMA system. Different placements result in varying degrees of contention for shared resources, so choosing the right placement can have a large ef ...

USENIX ASSOC2018

Methods of protein corona isolation for magnetic nanoparticles

Heinrich Hofmann, Marc Moniatte, Marijana Mionic Ebersold, Débora Bonvin, Diego Chiappe

Nanoparticles (NPs) in contact with a biological environment get covered by proteins and some are loosely bound and some are tightly bound. The latter form a hard protein corona (HPC) which is known to determine their biological behavior. Therefore, in ord ...

Royal Soc Chemistry2017

VNToR: Network Virtualization at the Top-of-Rack Switch

Aikaterini Argyraki, Edouard Bugnion, Jonas Fietz, Sam David Whitlock, Georgios Ioannidis

Cloud providers typically implement abstractions for net- work virtualization on the server, within the operating sys- tem that hosts the tenant virtual machines or containers. Despite being flexible and convenient, this approach has funda- mental problems ...

2016

The IX Operating System: Combining Low Latency, High Throughput, and Efficiency in a Protected Dataplan

Edouard Bugnion, Christos Kozyrakis, Georgios Prekas, Mia Primorac

The conventional wisdom is that aggressive networking requirements, such as high packet rates for small messages and μs-scale tail latency, are best addressed outside the kernel, in a user-level networking stack. We present ix, a dataplane operating system ...

Association for Computing Machinery2016

pyIAST: Ideal adsorbed solution theory (IAST) Python package

Berend Smit

Ideal adsorbed solution theory (LAST) is a widely-used thermodynamic framework to readily predict mixed-gas adsorption isotherms from a set of pure-component adsorption isotherms. We present an open-source, user-friendly Python package, pyIAST, to perform ...

Elsevier2016

Energy Proportionality and Workload Consolidation for Latency-Critical Applications

Edouard Bugnion, Christos Kozyrakis, Georgios Prekas, Mia Primorac

Energy proportionality and workload consolidation are important objectives towards increasing efficiency in large-scale datacenters. Our work focuses on achieving these goals in the presence of applications with microsecond-scale tail latency requirements. ...

2015

Laboratory as a Service (LaaS): a Model for Developing and Implementing Remote Laboratories as Modular Components

Denis Gillet, Christophe Salzmann

This contribution introduces a novel model, Laboratory as a Service (LaaS), for developing remote laboratories as independent component modules and implementing them as a set of loosely-coupled services to be consumed with a high level of abstraction and v ...

IEEE2014

IX: A Protected Dataplane Operating System for High Throughput and Low Latency

Edouard Bugnion, Christos Kozyrakis, Georgios Prekas

The conventional wisdom is that aggressive networking requirements, such as high packet rates for small messages and microsecond-scale tail latency, are best addressed outside the kernel, in a user-level networking stack. We present IX, a dataplane operati ...

USENIX2014

BOLTZWANN: A code for the evaluation of thermoelectric and electronic transport properties with a maximally-localized Wannier functions basis

Nicola Marzari, Giovanni Pizzi

We present a new code to evaluate thermoelectric and electronic transport properties of extended systems with a maximally-localized Wannier function basis set. The semiclassical Boltzmann transport equations for the homogeneous infinite system are solved i ...

Elsevier Science Bv2014

Indirect, Non-adaptive Control of a Class of Nonlinear Uncertain Systems with Applications to Motion Control of Swimming Robots

Auke Ijspeert, Yannick Morel

Motion control of bio-inspired mobile robotic platforms can prove a challenging problem. In particular, models for the considered type of systems may prove nonlinear, uncertain, and fairly complicated. To address these issues, use of an output predictor-ba ...

Amer Soc Mechanical Engineers2013

Performance Profiling of Virtual Machines

Willy Zwaenepoel, Jiaqing Du

Profilers based on hardware performance counters are indispensable for performance debugging of complex software systems. All modern processors feature hardware performance counters, but current virtual machine monitors (VMMs) do not properly expose them t ...

2011

Performance Profiling in a Virtualized Environment

Willy Zwaenepoel, Jiaqing Du

Virtualization is a key enabling technology for cloud computing. Many applications deployed in a cloud run in virtual machines. However, profilers based on CPU performance counters do not work well in a virtualized environment. In this paper, we explore th ...

2010

A Realistic Simulator for the Design and Evaluation of Intelligent Vehicles

Alcherio Martinoli, Sven Adrian Gowal

The number of vehicles hitting the road each day is rapidly increasing, and several problems, such as traffic conges- tion or driver safety, can no longer be solved in the same fashion as before. Intelligent transportation systems could potentially solve p ...

2010

Aseba Meets D-Bus: From the Depths of a Low-Level Event-

Francesco Mondada, Stéphane Magnenat

The robotics research community has clearly acknowledged the need of open and standard software stacks to promote reuse of code and developments. However, to date no particular project has prevailed. We suggest that one possible reason for this is that mos ...

2009

Optimizing network performance in virtual machines

In recent years, there has been a rapid growth in the adoption of virtual machine technology in data centers and cluster environments. This trend towards server virtualization is driven by two main factors: the savings in hardware cost that can be achieved ...

EPFL2009

Optimizing TCP Receive Performance

Willy Zwaenepoel

The performance of the networking stack in an operating system depends on the overhead incurred by two of its components: the per-byte overhead incurred in data-touching operations, and the per-packet overhead of protocol processing and other operating sys ...

2008

Optimizing Network Virtualization in Xen

Willy Zwaenepoel

BEST PAPER AWARDIn this paper, we propose and evaluate three techniques for optimizing network performance in the Xen virtualized environment. Our techniques retain the basic Xen architecture of locating device dri ...

2006