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SNIA Developer Conference September 15-17, 2025 | Santa Clara, CA

Professor

University of California, Santa Cruz (UCSC)

Heiner Litz is an Assistant Professor at the University of California Santa Cruz, working in Computer Architecture and Systems. His research focuses on improving the performance, cost, and efficiency of data center systems. Heiner has received the NSF CAREER award, Intel's Outstanding Researcher award, multiple Google and Facebook Faculty Awards, MICRO's best paper award, and multiple IEEE MICRO Top Pick awards. Before joining UCSC, Heiner Litz was a researcher at Google and a postdoctoral research fellow at Stanford University with Prof. Christos Kozyrakis and David Cheriton. Dr. Litz received his Diplom and Ph.D. from the University of Mannheim, Germany, advised by Prof. Bruening.

Grokking Lossless Data Compression

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Emerging Deep Learning/ Machine learning and cloud native Applications at data center scale demand terabytes of data flowing across the storage/ memory hierarchy, straining interconnect bandwidth and component capacities. The Industry has responded with a wide range of solutions like process node shrink, higher capacity devices, new tiers, innovative form factors, new interconnect technologies and fabrics, new types of compute architectures, new algorithms and more to creatively leverage storage/memory tiering.

Optimized Resource Allocation for CXL Tiered-Memory Systems

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Main memory dominates data center server cost, and hence, data center operators are exploring alternative technologies such as CXL-attached memory to improve cost without jeopardizing performance. Introducing multiple tiers of memory introduces new challenges, such as selecting the appropriate memory configuration for a given workload mix. In particular, we observe that inefficient configurations increase cost by up to 2.6× for clients, and resource stranding increases cost by 2.2× for cloud operators.

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