Characterizing a Memory Allocator at Warehouse Scale
Zhuangzhuang Zhou, Vaibhav Gogte, Nilay Vaish, Chris Kennelly, Patrick Xia, Svilen Kanev, Tipp Moseley, Christina Delimitrou, Parthasarathy Ranganathan
2024Year
17Citations
5Top-tier citations
Abstract
Memory allocation constitutes a substantial component of warehouse-scale computation. Optimizing the memory allocator not only reduces the datacenter tax, but also improves application performance, leading to significant cost savings.
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