The Deconstructed Cloud Databases project stems from a simple question: What are the minimum components required to build a data management system in the cloud? Our motivation for this project is based on the idea that reducing a system to its minimum set of components makes it easier to build, test, and maintain cloud data management systems. This approach requires less engineering effort, …
Supervisors: Martin Hentschel
Semester: Fall 2024
Tags: data management, performance, benchmarking, hacking

The work on running data-intensive applications on very powerful, expensive, and power-hungry server hardware is very popular thanks to the growing size of data centers and high-performance computing (HPC) platforms. However, with the rise of new generation internet of things (IoT) applications, the lower-power and lower-budget hardware devices that specifically target IoT, the edge platforms, …
Supervisors: Pınar Tözün
Semester: Fall 2024
Tags: edge, benchmarking, data-intensive applications, resource-constrained hardware

Observing how well machine learning systems utilize hardware resources is a crucial preliminary step to improve system performance and reduce hardware waste. To do such observations, one has to collect a lot of monitoring data on hardware behavior through experiments. In our group, we have recently built a framework to aid the management of such monitoring data efficiently, called Resource-Aware …
Supervisors: Pınar Tözün, Ties Robroek
Semester: Fall 2024
Tags: benchmarking, data management, data visualization

Observing how well data-intensive systems utilize hardware resources is a crucial preliminary step to improve system performance and reduce hardware waste. To do such observations, one has to collect a lot of monitoring data on hardware behavior through experiments. In our group, we have recently built a framework to aid the management of such monitoring data efficiently, called Resource-Aware …
Supervisors: Pınar Tözün, Ties Robroek
Semester: Fall 2023
Tags: benchmarking, data management, data visualization

State-of-the-art machine learning models are known to be compute- and power-hungry. On the other hand, modern servers come equipped with really powerful CPU-GPU co-processors. Not all machine learning models are able to use all the available hardware resources on such servers. Workload collocation is a mechanism to increase hardware utilization when a single workload is not able to utilize all the …
Supervisors: Pınar Tözün
Semester: Fall 2022
Tags: benchmarking, workload collocation, machine learning

Today, there are many compute- and memory-hungry data-intensive workloads from big data analytics applications to deep learning. These workloads increasingly run on shared hardware resources, which requires building hardware resource managers that can both serve the needs of workloads and utilize hardware well. Predicting the resource utilization of applications can aid such resource managers …
Supervisors: Pınar Tözün, Ehsan Yousefzadeh-Asl-Miandoab
Semester: Fall 2022
Tags: benchmarking, hardware resource consumption estimation, machine learning

NVMe SSDs are not a uniform class of devices. IO software stack is not uniform either. Understanding the performance characteristics of new-generation SSDs and the impact of the IO stack on their performance is crucial while determining how to design data-intensive systems. In this project, we would like to characterize the performance of a range of NVMe SSDs (e.g., Samsung Z-SSD, Intel Optane, …
Supervisors: Pınar Tözün
Semester: Fall 2021
Tags: SSD, benchmarking

Disaggregated storage has gained acceptance in data centers. With disaggregated storage, storage resources are decoupled from compute resources, and made available through fabric. We are particularly interested in storage resources composed of an ARM-based smartNIC, which acts as fabric target as well as storage controller for a collection of SSDs. The performance characteristics of the storage …
Supervisors: Philippe Bonnet
Semester: Fall 2021
Tags: benchmarking, ARM, SoC, fabric, SSD, computational storage

A data science infrastructure orchestrates the execution of widely used machine learning frameworks (e.g., TensorFlow , PyTorch) on a heterogeneous set of processing units (e.g., CPU, GPU, TPU, FPGA) while powering an increasingly diverse and complex range of applications (e.g., fraud detection, healthcare, virtual assistance, automatic driving). Understanding the resource consumption …
Supervisor: Pınar Tözün
Semester: Fall 2021
Tags: benchmarking, hardware resource consumption, deep learning frameworks

Consensus mechanisms for ensuring consistency are some of the most expensive operations in managing large amounts of data. Often, there is a trade off that involves reducing the coordination overhead at the price of accepting possible data loss or inconsistencies. As the demand for more efficient data centers increases, it is important to provide better ways of ensuring consistency without …
Supervisors: Zsolt István
Semester: Spring 2021
Tags: Benchmarking, Distributed Systems