Walter Binder

Resource management of replicated service systems provisioned in the cloud

2016

Service providers seek scalable and cost-effective cloud solutions for hosting their applications. Despite significant advances facilitating cloud services deployment and management, a number of challenges still remain. Service providers are confronted with time-varying workloads, inter-dependencies …

Understanding the Dark Side of Big Data Clusters: An Analysis beyond Failures

2015

Motivated by the high system complexity of today's datacenters, a large body of related studies tries to understand workloads and resource utilization in datacenters. However, there is little work on exploring unsuccessful job and task …

Accurate profiling in the presence of dynamic compilation

2015 · ACM SIGPLAN Notices

Many profilers based on bytecode instrumentation yield wrong results in the presence of an optimizing dynamic compiler, either due to not being aware of optimizations such as stack allocation and method inlining, or due to …

Automatically Generated Supernodes for AST Interpreters Improve Virtual-Machine Performance

2023

Abstract syntax tree (AST) interpreters allow implementing programming languages in a straight-forward way. However, AST interpreters implemented in object-oriented languages, such as e.g. in Java, often suffer from two serious performance issues. First, these interpreters …