Seminar 00480886

Location: Zoom (until further notice)

Course Topics

The students will present two papers each week, according to the schedule listed below.

Course Duties

Each student must present one paper 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/ec842523-4e3f-46c3-9985-745be90c3d5e/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
13/04/2026 Yoav Etsion Introduction
20/04/2026, 16:30 Vladislav Perepelichnyi Segue & ColorGuard: Optimizing SFI Performance and Scalability on Modern Architectures ASPLOS 2025
20/04/2026, 17:30 Naor Tiram Architectural Implications of Function-as-a-Service Computing ASPLOS 2025
27/04/2026 NO CLASS (exam break)
04/05/2026 NO CLASS (exam break)
11/05/2026, 16:30 Netanel RTL Verification for Secure Speculation Using Contract Shadow Logic ASPLOS 2025
11/05/2026, 17:30 Amir Grossman Dynamic Load Balancer in Intel Xeon Scalable Processor: Performance Analyses, Enhancements, and Guidelines ISCA 2025
18/05/2026 NO CLASS (Thursday schedule)
25/05/2026, 16:30 Aseel Sliman Symbiotic Task Scheduling and Data Prefetching MICRO 2025
25/05/2026, 17:30 Batel Shuminov Boosting Task Scheduling Data Locality with Low-latency, HW-accelerated Label Propagation MICRO 2025
01/06/2026, 16:30 TBD Rajomon: decentralized and coordinated overload control for latency-sensitive microservices NSDI 2025
01/06/2026, 17:30 Avichay Ashur Making serverless pay-for-use a reality with Leopard NSDI 2025
08/06/2026, 16:30 Asaad Sowan The Benefits and Limitations of User Interrupts for Preemptive Userspace Scheduling NSDI 2025
08/06/2026, 17:30 Guy Pinsker Are You Sure You Want to Use MMAP in Your Database Management System? CIDR 2022
15/06/2026, 16:30 TBD SoftWalker: Supporting Software Page Table Walk for Irregular GPU Applications MICRO 2025
15/06/2026, 17:30 Najah Kamal Learning to Walk: Architecting Learned Virtual Memory Translation MICRO 2025
22/06/2026, 16:30 Yuval Ben Haim Forest: Access-aware GPU UVM Management ISCA 2025
22/06/2026, 17:30 Ben Hanuka The XOR Cache: A Catalyst for Compression ISCA 2025
29/06/2026 NO CLASS
06/07/2026, 16:30 Idan Concorde: Fast and Accurate CPU Performance Modeling with Compositional Analytical-ML Fusion ISCA 2025
06/07/2026, 17:30 Adam Antoshin OmniSim: Simulating Hardware with C Speed and RTL Accuracy for High-Level Synthesis Designs MICRO 2025
13/07/2026, 16:30 TBD RANGE-BLOCKS: A Synchronization Facility for Domain-Specific Architectures ASPLOS 2025
13/07/2026, 17:30 TBD A4: Microarchitecture-Aware LLC Management for Datacenter Servers with Emerging I/O Devices ISCA 2025
20/07/2026, 16:30 TBD EDM: An Ultra-Low Latency Ethernet Fabric for Memory Disaggregation ASPLOS 2025
20/07/2026, 17:30 TBD pulse: Accelerating Distributed Pointer-Traversals on Disaggregated Memory ASPLOS 2025