Recent Publications

1. GPEmu: A GPU Emulator for Faster and Cheaper Prototyping and Evaluation of Deep Learning System Research
   Meng Wang, Gus Waldspurger, Naufal Ananda, Yuyang Huang, Kemas Wiharja, John Bent, Swaminathan Sundararaman, Vijay Chidambaram, Haryadi S Gunawi
   Proceedings of the VLDB Endowment, Volume 18, Issue 6

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   @inproceedings{wang2025gpemu,
     title = {{GPEmu: A GPU Emulator for Faster and Cheaper
                       Prototyping and Evaluation of Deep Learning System
                       Research}},
     author = {Wang, Meng and Waldspurger, Gus and Ananda, Naufal and Huang, Yuyang and Wiharja, Kemas and Bent, John and Sundararaman, Swaminathan and Chidambaram, Vijay and Gunawi, Haryadi S},
     journal = {Proceedings of the {VLDB} Endowment},
     volume = {18},
     number = {6},
     pages = {1919--1932},
     year = {2025},
     pdf = {https://vldb.org/pvldb/vol18/p1919-wang.pdf},
     keywords = {ML},
     software = {https://github.com/mengwanguc/gpemu}
   }
   

2. Tigon: A Distributed Database for a CXL Pod
   Yibo Huang, Haowei Chen, Newton Ni, Yan Sun, Vijay Chidambaram, Dixin Tang, Emmett Witchel
   19th USENIX Symposium on Operating Systems Design and Implementation (OSDI 25)

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   @inproceedings{huang25tigon,
     author = {Huang, Yibo and Chen, Haowei and Ni, Newton and Sun, Yan and Chidambaram, Vijay and Tang, Dixin and Witchel, Emmett},
     title = {{Tigon: A Distributed Database for a CXL Pod}},
     booktitle = {19th USENIX Symposium on Operating Systems Design
                       and Implementation (OSDI 25)},
     year = {2025},
     pdf = {https://www.usenix.org/system/files/osdi25-huang-yibo.pdf},
     publisher = {USENIX Association},
     month = jul,
     keywords = {CXL, databases},
     slides = {https://www.cs.utexas.edu/~vijay/slides/osdi25-huang-yibo-slides.pdf},
     software = {https://github.com/ut-datasys/tigon}
   }
   

3. PoWER Never Corrupts: Tool-Agnostic Verification of Crash Consistency and Corruption Detection
   Hayley LeBlanc, Jacob R. Lorch, Chris Hawblitzel, Cheng Huang, Yiheng Tao, Nickolai Zeldovich, Vijay Chidambaram
   19th USENIX Symposium on Operating Systems Design and Implementation (OSDI 25)
   🏆 Distinguished artifact award

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   @inproceedings{hayley25power,
     author = {LeBlanc, Hayley and Lorch, Jacob R. and Hawblitzel, Chris and Huang, Cheng and Tao, Yiheng and Zeldovich, Nickolai and Chidambaram, Vijay},
     title = {{PoWER Never Corrupts: Tool-Agnostic Verification of
                       Crash Consistency and Corruption Detection}},
     booktitle = {19th USENIX Symposium on Operating Systems Design
                       and Implementation (OSDI 25)},
     year = {2025},
     pdf = {https://www.usenix.org/system/files/osdi25-leblanc.pdf},
     publisher = {USENIX Association},
     month = jul,
     keywords = {verification, key-value stores},
     slides = {https://www.cs.utexas.edu/~vijay/slides/osdi25-leblanc-slides.pdf},
     award = {Distinguished Artifact Award},
     software = {https://github.com/microsoft/verified-storage/}
   }
   

News

Four new students (Minh, Talia, Nitin, and Shurang) are joining the group. Welcome!

Launching a new Distributed Systems course in UTCS Online Masters

Hayley defended her thesis and graduated! She will be joining Microsoft Research. Congratulations!

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