Dangling Pointers

Understanding Host Network Stack Latency Tianyu Zuo, Jaehyun Hwang, Ao Tang, Rachit Agarwal, and Qizhe Cai SIGCOMM'26 Think of this paper like the infamous: Latency Numbers Every Programmer Should Know, but for the Linux networking stack in particular.

Analysis of Area and Power Overhead for a Synthesizable 4-Phase Bundled-Data Asynchronous RISC-V Processor Sean Jacobs, Mark Indovina, and Yashaswini Suresha GLVLSI'26 This paper describes the design of an asynchronous (i.e., there is no clock signal) RIS…

Vector Value Prediction with Element-wise Stride Compression Yanmeng Huang, Ling Yang, Yuanhu Cheng, Junhui Wang, Quan Deng, Junbo Tie, Yongwen Wang, Hai Zhong, and Libo Huang GLSVLSI'26 This paper makes an astute observation: the contents of vector regis…

Modular GPU Programming with Typed Perspectives Manya Bansal, Daniel Sainati, Joseph W.

RNG: Flat Datacenter Networks at Scale Giacomo Bernardi, Ratul Mahajan, C.

Bonsai: Compiling Queries to Pruned Tree Traversals Alexander J Root, Christophe Gyurgyik, Purvi Goel, Kayvon Fatahalian, Jonathan Ragan-Kelley, Andrew Adams, and Fredrik Kjolstad PLDI'26 File this under: “so elegant, why wasn’t this discovered sooner?”

MatchBox: A Semantic Foundation for Data Plane Portability Eric Hayden Campbell, Robert Zhang, Divyanshu Saxena, Aditya Akella, and Işıl Dillig PLDI'26 This paper identifies problems associated with subtle differences in match-action table implementations…

Breadcrumb Filters: Fast Fully Featured Filters Andrew Krapivin, Aaditya Rangarajan, Alex Conway, Martin Farach-Colton, Rob Johnson, and Prashant Pandey SIGMOD'26 This paper presents the design of a breadcrumb filter, which is a membership testing data st…

RABIT: Efficient Range Queries with Bitmap Indexing Junchang Wang, Fu Xiao, and Manos Athanassoulis SIGMOD'26 This paper presents an optimization for range filtering (e.g., AGE > 7).

Accelerating Stream Processing Engines via Hardware Offloading Zhengyan Guo, Mingxing Zhang, Yingdi Shan, Kang Chen, Jinlei Jiang, and Yongwei Wu SIGMOD'26 This paper describes a trick to offload partitioning from CPU to NIC via clever use of RSS.

F3: The Open-Source Data File Format for the Future Xinyu Zeng, Ruijun Meng, Martin Prammer, Wes McKinney, Jignesh M.

Enabling Packet Spraying over Commodity RNICs with In-Network Support Xiangzhou Liu, Wenxue Li, Zihao Wang, and Kai Chen EUROSYS'26 This paper proposes changes to top-of-rack (ToR) switch hardware to enable packets from a single flow to utilize many netwo…

LightDSA: Enabling Efficient DSA Through Hardware-Aware Transparent Optimization Yuansen Wang, Teng Ma, Yuanhui Luo, Dongbiao He, Zheng Liu, and Yunpeng Chai EUROSYS'26 This paper describes performance characteristics of the Intel DSA hardware accelerator,

Accelerating Transactional Execution via Processing-In-Memory André Lopes, Daniel Castro, and Paolo Romano EUROSYS'26 This paper describes a way to implement OLTP for a processing-in-memory architecture.

Yield Not Thy Core Achilles Benetopoulos, Peter Alvaro, Andi Quinn, and Robert Soule EUROSYS’26 This paper describes a solution to the placement problem in distributed systems.

This isn’t a paper summary, but rather a description of a hobby experiment I’ve been hacking on ("research quality" code).

SG-IOV: Socket-Granular I/O Virtualization for SmartNIC-Based Container Networks Chenxingyu Zhao, Hongtao Zhang, Jaehong Min, Shengkai Lin, Wei Zhang, Kaiyuan Zhang, Ming Liu, and Arvind Krishnamurthy ASPLOS'26 SR-IOV Scalability SR-IOV is a PCIe feature…

Efficient Remote Memory Ordering for Non-Coherent Systems Wei Siew Liew, Md Ashfaqur Rahaman, Adarsh Patil, Ryan Stutsman, and Vijay Nagarajan ASPLOS’26 It seems like every year there is a new PCIe standard which doubles bandwidth.

Performance Predictability in Heterogeneous Memory Jinshu Liu, Hanchen Xu, Daniel S.

Enabling Fast Networking in the Public Cloud Alireza Sanaee, Vahab Jabrayilov, Ilias Marinos, Farbod Shahinfar, Divyanshu Saxena, Gianni Antichi, and Kostis Kaffes ASPLOS'26 Kernel-Bypass in the Cloud Networking applications that care about latency don’t…