Characterizing a Memory Allocator at Warehouse Scale
Zhuangzhuang Zhou, Vaibhav Gogte, Nilay Vaish, Chris Kennelly, P.J. Xia, Svilen Kanev, Tipp Moseley, Christina Delimitrou, Parthasarathy Ranganathan · 2024
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.