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OSDI
15 years 6 months ago
1994 ACM 
Mobile computers such as notebooks, subnotebooks, and palmtops require low weight, low power consumption, and good interactive performance. These requirements impose many challeng...
154
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OSDI
15 years 6 months ago
1994 ACM 
We describe the lockingarchitecture of a new operating system, HURRICANE, designed for large scale shared-memory multiprocessors. Many papers already describe kernel lockingtechni...
150
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OSDI
15 years 6 months ago
1994 ACM 
A fine-grain parallel program is one in which processes are typically small, ranging from a few to a few hundred instructions. Fine-grain parallelism arises naturally in many situ...
148
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OSDI
15 years 6 months ago
1994 ACM 
Operating system research has endeavored to develop micro-kernels that provide modularity, reliability and security improvements over conventional monolithic kernels. However, the...
148
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OSDI
15 years 6 months ago
1994 ACM
This paper describes the design and evaluation of SAM, a shared object system for distributed memory machines. SAM is a portable run-time system that provides a global name space ...
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