• Impact of Microarchitectural State Reuse on Serverless Functions 

      Asheim, Truls; Ahmed Khan, Tanvir; Kasikci, Baris; Kumar, Rakesh (Chapter, 2022)
      Serverless computing has seen rapid growth in the past few years due to its seamless scalability and zero resource provisioning overhead for developers. In serverless, applications are composed of a set of very short-running ...
    • Twig: Profile-Guided BTB Prefetching for Data Center Applications 

      Ahmed Khan, Tanvir; Brown, Nathan; Sriraman, Akshitha; Soundararajan, Niranjan; Kumar, Rakesh; Devietti, Joseph; Subramoney, Sreenivas; Pokam, Gilles; Litz, Heiner; Kasikci, Baris (Chapter, 2021)
      Modern data center applications have deep software stacks, with instruction footprints that are orders of magnitude larger than typical instruction cache (I-cache) sizes. To efficiently prefetch instructions into the I-cache ...