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Cloud and Datacenter

[Serverless] Pocket, OSDI '18 | ORION, OSDI '22

[Tail] DeTail, SIGCOMM '11 | The Tail at Scale, CACM '13| Tales of the Tail...]]></description><link>https://blog.mhxie.us/best-system-papers</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://blog.mhxie.us/best-system-papers</guid><category><![CDATA[research]]></category><category><![CDATA[paper]]></category><category><![CDATA[system]]></category><category><![CDATA[Cloud]]></category><category><![CDATA[serverless]]></category><category><![CDATA[llm]]></category><category><![CDATA[QoS]]></category><dc:creator><![CDATA[Minghao Xie]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Mon, 16 Jun 2025 04:31:57 GMT</pubDate><content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Here are my personal picks of outstanding papers in various areas of systems research that interest me.</p>
<h3 id="heading-cloud-and-datacenter">Cloud and Datacenter</h3>
<ul>
<li><p>[Serverless] <a target="_blank" href="https://www.usenix.org/conference/osdi18/presentation/klimovic">Pocket, OSDI '18</a> | <a target="_blank" href="https://www.usenix.org/conference/osdi22/presentation/mahgoub">ORION, OSDI '22</a></p>
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<li><p>[Tail] <a target="_blank" href="https://dl.acm.org/doi/10.1145/2377677.2377711">DeTail, SIGCOMM '11</a> | <a target="_blank" href="https://cacm.acm.org/magazines/2013/2/160173-the-tail-at-scale">The Tail at Scale, CACM '13</a>| <a target="_blank" href="https://dl.acm.org/doi/10.1145/2670979.2670988">Tales of the Tail, SoCC '14</a> | <a target="_blank" href="https://dl.acm.org/doi/10.1145/3477132.3483571">Perséphone, SOSP '21</a></p>
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<li><p>[RPC] <a target="_blank" href="https://www.usenix.org/conference/nsdi19/presentation/kalia">eRPC, NSDI '19</a> | <a target="_blank" href="https://dl.acm.org/doi/10.1145/3477132.3483587">PRISM, SOSP '21</a> | <a target="_blank" href="https://www.usenix.org/conference/osdi16/technical-sessions/presentation/kalia">FaSST, OSDI '16</a> | <a target="_blank" href="https://dl.acm.org/doi/10.1145/3387514.3405897">1RMA, SIGCOMM '20</a> | <a target="_blank" href="https://www.usenix.org/conference/atc16/technical-sessions/presentation/kalia">Design guidelines for RDMA, ATC '16</a></p>
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<li><p>[Scheduling] <a target="_blank" href="https://dl.acm.org/doi/10.1145/502034.502057">SEDA, SOSP '01</a> | <a target="_blank" href="https://www.usenix.org/conference/osdi16/technical-sessions/presentation/gog">Firmament, OSDI '16</a> | <a target="_blank" href="https://dl.acm.org/doi/10.1145/1629575.1629601">Quincy, SOSP '09</a> | <a target="_blank" href="https://dl.acm.org/doi/10.1145/2523616.2523633">Hadoop YARN, SoCC '13</a></p>
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<li><p>[Burst] <a target="_blank" href="https://dl.acm.org/doi/10.1145/3229584.3229586">Snappy, SelfDN '18</a> | <a target="_blank" href="https://www.usenix.org/conference/osdi20/presentation/cho">Breakwater, OSDI '20</a> | <a target="_blank" href="https://www.usenix.org/conference/nsdi23/presentation/sharafzadeh">Valinor, NSDI '23</a></p>
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</ul>
<h3 id="heading-storage-and-database">Storage and Database</h3>
<ul>
<li><p>[LLM] <a target="_blank" href="https://arxiv.org/abs/2312.11514">LLM in a Flash, ACL '24</a> | <a target="_blank" href="https://dl.acm.org/doi/10.1145/3600006.3613165">PagedAttention, SOSP '23</a></p>
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<li><p>[Vector DB] <a target="_blank" href="https://dl.acm.org/doi/10.1145/3448016.3457550">Milvus, SIGMOD '21</a></p>
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<li><p>[Disaggregation] <a target="_blank" href="https://dl.acm.org/doi/10.1145/3037697.3037732">ReFlex, ASPLOS '17</a> | <a target="_blank" href="https://www.usenix.org/conference/osdi16/technical-sessions/presentation/gao">Network Requirements, OSDI '16</a> | <a target="_blank" href="https://www.usenix.org/conference/nsdi14/technical-sessions/dragojevi%C4%87">FaRM, NSDI '14</a></p>
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<li><p>[QoS] <a target="_blank" href="https://dl.acm.org/doi/10.1145/2391229.2391243">CAKE, SoCC '12</a> | <a target="_blank" href="https://www.usenix.org/conference/fast12/fios-fair-efficient-flash-io-scheduler">FIOS, FAST '12</a></p>
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<li><p>[SSD] <a target="_blank" href="https://dl.acm.org/doi/10.5555/1960475.1960481">CAFTL, FAST '11</a> | <a target="_blank" href="https://www.usenix.org/conference/atc21/presentation/bjorling">ZNS, ATC '21</a></p>
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<li><p>[Archival] <a target="_blank" href="https://dl.acm.org/doi/10.1145/2872362.2872397">A DNA-Based Archival Storage System, ASPLOS '16</a> | <a target="_blank" href="https://dl.acm.org/doi/10.1145/1966445.1966449">DepSky, EuroSys '11</a> | <a target="_blank" href="https://www.usenix.org/conference/osdi14/technical-sessions/presentation/balakrishnan">Pelican, OSDI '14</a></p>
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</ul>
<h3 id="heading-os-and-architecture">OS and Architecture</h3>
<ul>
<li><p>[AI Accelerator] <a target="_blank" href="https://www.computer.org/csdl/proceedings-article/hpca/2019/144400a001/18M7NjbwTxm">The Accelerator Wall, HPCA '19</a>, <a target="_blank" href="https://arxiv.org/abs/2403.14123">AI and Memory Wall, MICRO '24</a></p>
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<li><p>[Disaggregation] <a target="_blank" href="https://www.usenix.org/conference/osdi18/presentation/shan">LegoOS, OSDI '18</a></p>
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<li><p>[Network] <a target="_blank" href="https://www.usenix.org/conference/osdi14/technical-sessions/presentation/belay">IX, OSDI '14</a> | <a target="_blank" href="https://www.usenix.org/conference/nsdi14/technical-sessions/presentation/jeong">mTCP, NSDI '14</a></p>
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<li><p>[Memory] <a target="_blank" href="https://dl.acm.org/doi/10.1145/378993.379232">Hoard, ASPLOS 'IX</a></p>
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<li><p>[Metric] <a target="_blank" href="https://www.usenix.org/conference/hotos15/workshop-program/presentation/mcsherry">COST, HotOS '15</a></p>
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<li><p>[Chip Network] <a target="_blank" href="https://ieeexplore.ieee.org/document/8416868">Chiplet, ISCA ’18</a></p>
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<li><p>[Distributed Computing] <a target="_blank" href="https://arxiv.org/abs/1712.05889">Ray, OSDI '18</a></p>
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</ul>
<h3 id="heading-network-and-security">Network and Security</h3>
<ul>
<li><p>[Congestion Control] <a target="_blank" href="https://dl.acm.org/doi/10.1145/1851182.1851192">DCTCP, SIGCOMM '10</a> | <a target="_blank" href="https://www.usenix.org/conference/nsdi15/technical-sessions/presentation/dong">PCC, NSDI '15</a> | <a target="_blank" href="https://dl.acm.org/doi/10.1145/2829988.2787510">Timely, SIGCOMM '15</a> | <a target="_blank" href="https://www.usenix.org/conference/nsdi18/presentation/arun">Copa, NSDI '18</a> | <a target="_blank" href="https://www.usenix.org/conference/nsdi23/presentation/wang-weitao">Poseidon, NSDI '23</a></p>
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<li><p>[Datacenter Networks] <a target="_blank" href="https://www.usenix.org/conference/usenixsecurity18/presentation/meier">NetHide, USENIX Security '18</a> | <a target="_blank" href="https://users.soe.ucsc.edu/~qian/papers/SpaceShuffle.pdf">Space Shuffle, ICNP '14</a></p>
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<li><p>[P2P] <a target="_blank" href="https://dl.acm.org/doi/10.1145/964723.383071">Chord, SIGCOMM '01</a></p>
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<li><p>[Host] <a target="_blank" href="https://dl.acm.org/doi/10.1145/3098822.3098852">Carousel, SIGCOMM '17</a></p>
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<li><p>[Hashing] <a target="_blank" href="https://dl.acm.org/doi/10.1016/j.jalgor.2003.12.002">Cuckoo hashing, J. Algorithms '04</a> | <a target="_blank" href="https://arxiv.org/abs/1608.05699">Othello, ICNP '17</a></p>
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<li><p>[ORAM] <a target="_blank" href="https://dl.acm.org/doi/10.5555/3291168.3291222">Obladi, OSDI '18</a></p>
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<li><p>[Stream] <a target="_blank" href="https://www.usenix.org/conference/nsdi16/technical-sessions/presentation/gupta-trinabh">Popcorn, NSDI '16</a></p>
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</ul>
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