Search Results - "Performance Debugging"

Making Sense of Multi-threaded Application Performance at Scale with NonSequitur by Wong, Augustine, Bucci, Paul, Beschastnikh, Ivan, Fedorova, Alexandra

“…Modern multi-threaded systems are highly complex. This makes their behavior difficult to understand. Developers frequently capture behavior in the form of…”
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DProf: distributed profiler with strong guarantees by Benavides, Zachary, Vora, Keval, Gupta, Rajiv

“…Performance analysis of a distributed system is typically achieved by collecting profiles whose underlying events are timestamped with unsynchronized clocks of…”
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PALMED: Throughput Characterization for Superscalar Architectures by Derumigny, Nicolas, Bastian, Theophile, Gruber, Fabian, Iooss, Guillaume, Guillon, Christophe, Pouchet, Louis-Noel, Rastello, Fabrice

“…In a super-scalar architecture, the scheduler dynamically assigns micro-operations ( \mu OPs) to execution ports. The port mapping of an architecture describes…”
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Perfce: Performance Debugging on Databases with Chaos Engineering-Enhanced Causality Analysis by Ji, Zhenlan, Ma, Pingchuan, Wang, Shuai

“…Debugging performance anomalies in databases is challenging. Causal inference techniques enable qualitative and quantitative root cause analysis of performance…”
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Systematic detection of memory related performance bottlenecks in GPGPU programs by Horga, Adrian, Chattopadhyay, Sudipta, Eles, Petru, Peng, Zebo

“…Graphics processing units (GPUs) pose an attractive choice for designing high-performance and energy-efficient software systems. This is because GPUs are…”
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Precise, Scalable, and Online Request Tracing for Multitier Services of Black Boxes by Sang, Bo, Zhan, Jianfeng, Lu, Gang, Wang, Haining, Xu, Dongyan, Wang, Lei, Zhang, Zhihong, Jia, Zhen

“…As more and more multitier services are developed from commercial off-the-shelf components or heterogeneous middleware without source code available, both…”
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The Millibottleneck Theory of Performance Bugs, and Its Experimental Verification by Pu, Calton, Kimball, Joshua, Chien-An Lai, Tao Zhu, Li, Jack, Junhee Park, Qingyang Wang, Jayasinghe, Deepal, Pengcheng Xiong, Malkowski, Simon, Qinyi Wu, Gueyoung Jung, Younggyun Koh, Swint, Galen

“…The performance of n-tier web-facing applications often suffer from response time long-tail problem. With relatively low resource utilization (less than 50%)…”
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Adaptive Monitoring: Application of Probing to Adapt Passive Monitoring by Jeswani, Deepak, Natu, Maitreya, Ghosh, R. K.

“…Availability of good quality monitoring data is a vital need for management of today’s data centers. However, effective use of monitoring tools demands an…”
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Performance debugging of Esterel specifications by Ju, Lei, Huynh, Bach Khoa, Roychoudhury, Abhik, Chakraborty, Samarjit

“…Synchronous languages like Esterel have been widely adopted for designing reactive systems in safety-critical domains such as avionics. Specifications written…”
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Automatic performance debugging of SPMD-style parallel programs by Liu, Xu, Zhan, Jianfeng, Zhan, Kunlin, Shi, Weisong, Yuan, Lin, Meng, Dan, Wang, Lei

“…Automatic performance debugging of parallel applications includes two main steps: locating performance bottlenecks and uncovering their root causes for…”
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Distributed Tracing for InterPlanetary File System by Gupta, Sushant Kumar, Miller, Marshall David, Han, Rachel, Guo, Haorui

“…The InterPlanetary File System (IPFS) is on its way to becoming the backbone of the next generation of the web. However, it suffers from several performance…”
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Software system performance debugging with kernel events feature guidance by Junghwan Rhee, Hui Zhang, Arora, Nipun, Guofei Jiang, Yoshihira, Kenji

“…To diagnose performance problems in production systems, many OS kernel-level monitoring and analysis tools have been proposed. Using low level kernel events…”
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ClearCausal: Cross Layer Causal Analysis for Automatic Microservice Performance Debugging by Tunde-Onadele, Olufogorehan, Qin, Feiran, Gu, Xiaohui, Lin, Yuhang

“…It is notoriously hard to debug performance problems in dynamic distributed systems such as containerized microservices. Developers need to spend large amounts…”
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PASD: A Performance Analysis Approach Through the Statistical Debugging of Kernel Events by Khan, Mohammed Adib, Noferesti, Morteza, Ezzati-Jivan, Naser

“…Dynamic performance analysis plays a crucial role in optimizing systems and identifying performance bottlenecks. Traditional software debugging methods…”
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Operating System Level Trace Analysis for Automated Problem Identification by Matni, Gabriel N.

“…Performance bottlenecks, malicious activities, programming bugs and other kinds of problematic behavior could be accurately detected on production systems if…”
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LIME: a framework for debugging load imbalance in multi-threaded execution by Oh, Jungju, Hughes, Christopher J., Venkataramani, Guru, Prvulovic, Milos

“…With the ubiquity of multi-core processors, software must make effective use of multiple cores to obtain good performance on modern hardware. One of the…”
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HLScope: High-Level Performance Debugging for FPGA Designs by Young-Kyu Choi, Cong, Jason

“…In their quest for further optimization, field-programmable gate array (FPGA) designers often spend considerable time trying to identify the performance…”
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Flexible performance visualization of parallel and distributed applications by Chassin de Kergommeaux, J., de Oliveira Stein, B.

“…Performance debugging of parallel and distributed applications can benefit from behavioral visualization tools helping to capture the dynamics of the…”
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TOBTD: Throughput debugging in total-order broadcast systems by Nehme, Mohamad-Jaafar, Zein-Eddine, Abbass

“…Systems running Total-Order Broadcast protocols are prone to throughput downgrades due to both system-level failures (anomalies and crashes) and network level…”
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Performance debugging in data centers: Doing more with less by Cecchet, E., Natu, M., Sadaphal, V., Shenoy, P., Vin, H.

“…With the increasing scale and complexity of data centers, detecting and localizing performance faults in real-time has become both a pressing need and a…”
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