Location: Mayer 351
Course Topics
The students will present two papers each week, according to the schedule listed below.
Course Duties
Each student must present two papers during the semester (note that the date/time for presenting each paper is set).
Use the following link to select a paper to present: https://doodle.com/sign-up-sheet/participate/0a89cf60-5ce9-4035-9a0f-39e4eeab1ab6/select
Note that selecting a date also means selecting the paper scheduled for that date.
In your presentations, make sure you address the following points:
1. What is the problem that the paper addresses?
2. According to the authors, what is the new insight that the paper contributes?
3. How does the paper addresses the problem at hand?
4. What are the results?
You presentations should also convey your critique of the paper:
1. Is the problem important?
2. Are the insights significantly novel?
3. Is the methodology sound?
4. Are the results substantial?
Each presentation will have 45 minutes, 5 of which shoud be reserved for questions. When preparing the slides, take into account that you will spend an average of 1-1.5 minutes on each slide.
Talk Schedule
(you can download each paper using its link, provided you are using the Technion network)
Date and time |
Speaker |
Title |
Paper Venue |
31/3/2025 |
Yoav Etsion |
Introduction |
|
7/4/2025, 16:30 |
Amir Avivi |
Revisiting Virtual L1 Caches: A Practical Design Using Dynamic Synonym Remapping |
HPCA 2016 |
7/4/2025, 17:30 |
Gal Dvir |
Reducing memory reference energy with opportunistic virtual caching |
ISCA 2012 |
14/4/2025, |
|
Passover |
|
21/4/2025, 16:30 |
Suf Rubinstein |
Pond: CXL-Based Memory Pooling Systems for Cloud Platforms |
ASPLOS 2023 |
21/4/2025, 17:30 |
Eyal Gilron |
SecureCells: A Secure Compartmentalized Architecture |
SP 2023 |
28/4/2025, 16:30 |
Kfir Barzilay |
Rebooting virtual memory with midgard |
ISCA 2021 |
28/4/2025, 17:30 |
Tom |
Imprecise Store Exceptions |
ISCA 2023 |
5/5/2025, 16:30 |
Roni Shakarov Reisser |
CryptoMMU: Enabling Scalable and Secure Access Control of Third-Party Accelerators |
MICRO 2023 |
5/5/2025, 17:30 |
Roy Zoulty |
Direct Memory Translation for Virtualized Clouds |
ASPLOS 2024 |
12/5/2025, 16:30 |
Yoav Gold |
Limoncello: Prefetchers for Scale |
ASPLOS 2024 |
12/5/2025, 17:30 |
Luiz Wainstein |
Get Out of the Valley: Power-Efficient Address Mapping for GPUs |
ISCA 2018 |
19/5/2025, 16:30 |
Nawal Sheikh |
Firecracker: Lightweight Virtualization for Serverless Applications |
NSDI 2020 |
19/5/2025, 17:30 |
Tal Shteinberg |
Nightcore: efficient and scalable serverless computing for latency-sensitive, interactive microservices |
ASPLOS 2021 |
26/5/2025, 16:30 |
Yuval Mandel |
LineFS: Efficient SmartNIC Offload of a Distributed File System with Pipeline Parallelism |
SOSP 2021 |
26/5/2025, 17:30 |
Rivka Galya Nir Harwood |
Flipping bits in memory without accessing them: An experimental study of DRAM disturbance errors |
ISCA 2014 |
2/6/2025, |
|
Shavuot |
|
9/6/2025, 16:30 |
Elior Kellerman |
RAIDR: Retention-Aware Intelligent DRAM Refresh |
ISCA 2012 |
9/6/2025, 17:30 |
Idan Magram |
Horus: Granular In-Network Task Scheduler for Cloud Datacenters |
NSDI 2024 |
16/6/2025, 16:30 |
Adi Ben Hayun |
Doing More with Less: Orchestrating Serverless Applications without an Orchestrator |
NSDI 2023 |
16/6/2025, 17:30 |
Yinon Geva |
ExoPlane: An Operating System for On-Rack Switch Resource Augmentation |
NSDI 2023 |
23/6/2025, |
|
No class |
|
30/6/2025, 16:30 |
Dor Malka |
NetRPC: Enabling In-Network Computation in Remote Procedure Calls |
NSDI 2023 |
30/6/2025, 17:30 |
Roey Iosub |
Remote Procedure Call as a Managed System Service |
NSDI 2023 |
7/7/2025, 16:30 |
Gal Granot |
CARAT CAKE: replacing paging via compiler/kernel cooperation |
ASPLOS 2022 |
7/7/2025, 17:30 |
Rotem Maman |
From C/C++ Code to High-Performance Dataflow Circuits |
TCAD 2022 |