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Oligolithic Cross-task Optimizations across Isolated Workloads

Anastasia Ailamaki, Panagiotis Sioulas, Eleni Zapridou

Enterprises collect data in large volumes and leverage them to drive numerous concurrent decisions and business processes. Their teams deploy multiple applications that often operate concurrently on the same data and infrastructure but have widely differen ...

2024

Short-term runoff forecasting in an alpine catchment with a long short-term memory neural network

Devis Tuia, Marc Conrad Russwurm

The governing hydrological processes are expected to shift under climate change in the alpine regions of Switzerland. This raises the need for more adaptive and accurate methods to estimate river flow. In high-altitude catchments influenced by snow and gla ...

2023

Process-informed adsorbent design guidelines for direct air capture

Berend Smit

Direct air capture using solid adsorbents is a proven technology critical to reducing our net greenhouse gas emissions to zero and beyond. Currently, academic research into the technology mainly focuses on the devel-opment of new adsorbents. However, there ...

ELSEVIER SCIENCE SA2022

Micro-architectural Analysis of Database Workloads

Utku Sirin

Database workloads have significantly evolved in the past twenty years. Traditional database systems that are mainly used to serve Online Transactional Processing (OLTP) workloads evolved into specialized database systems that are optimized for particular ...

EPFL2021

The Industrialization of Astronomical Instrumentation: An Industrial Systems and Process Engineering Perspective

Jean-Paul Richard Kneib, Mohamed Bouri, Luzius Gregor Kronig, Ricardo Jorge Araùjo Pereira, Loïc Grossen

The Sloan Digital Sky Survey V (SDSS-V) is an all-sky spectroscopic survey of > 6 million objects, designed to decode the history of the Milky Way, reveal the inner workings of stars, investigate the origin of solar systems, and track the growth of superma ...

SPIE-INT SOC OPTICAL ENGINEERING2020

Extending Business Process Models with Appreciation

Alain Wegmann, Gil Regev

We use homeostasis, the maintenance of steady states in an organism, to explain some of the decisions made by participants in a business process. We use Vickers’ Appreciative System to model the homeostatic states with Harel’s statecharts. We take the exam ...

2019

Improving Main-memory Database System Performance through Cooperative Multitasking

Georgios Psaropoulos

Database systems access memory either sequentially or randomly. Contrary to sequential access and despite the extensive efforts of computer architects, compiler writers, and system builders, random access to data larger than the processor cache has been s ...

EPFL2019

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

VDM-based UAV Attitude Determination in Absence of IMU Data

Jan Skaloud, Mehran Khaghani

The capability of a previously proposed VDM (vehicle dynamic model) based navigation method for UAVs is assessed in attitude determination without IMU data. This method utilizes the VDM as main process model within the navigation filter and treats data fro ...

IEEE2018

Easy and Accurate Hardware-based Program Performance Monitoring

Andrzej Pawel Nowak

The performance monitoring of computer systems is a complex affair, made even more challenging by the increasing gap between hardware and software. Methods that collect and feed data to performance analysis can usually be classified into one of two groups. ...

EPFL2017

What Have We Unlearned Since the Early Days of the Process Movement?

Alain Wegmann, Gil Regev

The vision brought forth by Michael Hammer in the late 1980s was to save struggling American companies by getting them to focus on the creation of value for clients by reorganizing their operations and structure around the use of IT systems. This was the B ...

Springer2016

Characterization of the Impact of Hardware Islands on OLTP

Anastasia Ailamaki, Pinar Tözün, Ippokratis Pandis, Danica Porobic, Miguel Sérgio De Oliveira Branco

Modern hardware is abundantly parallel and increasingly heterogeneous. The numerous processing cores have non-uniform access latencies to the main memory and processor caches, which causes variability in the communication costs. Unfortunately, database sys ...

Springer Verlag2016

Accelerators for Data Processing

Yusuf Onur Koçberber

The explosive growth in digital data and its growing role in real-time analytics motivate the design of high-performance database management systems (DBMSs). Meanwhile, slowdown in supply voltage scaling has stymied improvements in core performance and ush ...

EPFL2015

Shared Frontend for Manycore Server Processors

Ilknur Cansu Kaynak

Instruction-supplymechanisms, namely the branch predictors and instruction prefetchers, exploit recurring control flow in an application to predict the applicationâ s future control flow and provide the core with a useful instruction stream to execute in ...

EPFL2015

How to Stop Under-Utilization and Love Multicores

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

Hardware trends oblige software to overcome three major challenges against systems scalability: (1) taking advantage of the implicit/vertical parallelism within a core that is enabled through the aggressive micro-architectural features, (2) exploiting the ...

2015

Building Evolvable Networks : Flexible and Predictable Packet Processing

Mihai Dobrescu

Software packet-processing platforms- - network devices running on general-purpose servers-- are emerging as a compelling alternative to the traditional high-end switches and routers running on specialized hardware. Their promise is to enable the fast dep ...

EPFL2015

Energy-Efficient Inexact Speculative Adder with High Performance and Accuracy Control

Christian Enz, Vincent Frédéric Camus, Jérémy Lucien Maurice Schlachter

Inexact and approximate circuit design is a promising approach to improve performance and energy efficiency in technology-scaled and low-power digital systems. Such strategy is suitable for error-tolerant applications involving perceptive or statistical ou ...

2015

Runtime Prediction for Scale-Out Data Analytics

Adrian Daniel Popescu

Many analytics applications generate mixed workloads, i.e., workloads comprised of analytical tasks with different processing characteristics including data pre-processing, SQL, and iterative machine learning algorithms. Examples of such mixed workloads ca ...

EPFL2015

Integrating Rate Based Models into a Multi-Objective Process Design & Optimisation Framework using Surrogate Models

Levent Sinan Teske

In the development of energy and chemical processes, the process engineers extensively apply computer aided methods to design & optimise these processes and corresponding process units. Such applications are multi-scale modelling and multi-objective optimi ...

EPFL2014

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