CS 854, Fall 2013 - Dynamic System Optimization

Guest Lecture

This class meet will feature a guest lecture by Dr. Reza Azimi from the IBM Toronto Lab. Dr. Azimi will speak on architectural methods for tracking cache affinity and NUMA-awareness and their related optimization methods in a modern operating system. He will also speak about corresponding techniques implemented in IBM's AIX operating system. More details forthcoming...

Designated Papers

Enhancing Operating System Support for Multicore Processors by Using Hardware Performance Monitoring
http://dx.doi.org/10.1145/1531793.1531803

Additional Literature

Hardware Counter Driven On-the-Fly Request Signatures
http://dx.doi.org/10.1145/1346281.1346306
Chameleon: Operating System Support for Dynamic Processors
http://dx.doi.org/10.1145/2150976.2150988