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PPOPP
2010
ACM
14 years 6 months ago
GAMBIT: effective unit testing for concurrency libraries
As concurrent programming becomes prevalent, software providers are investing in concurrency libraries to improve programmer productivity. Concurrency libraries improve productivi...
Katherine E. Coons, Sebastian Burckhardt, Madanlal...
EUROSYS
2009
ACM
14 years 6 months ago
Dingo: taming device drivers
Device drivers are notorious for being a major source of failure in operating systems. In analysing a sample of real defects in Linux drivers, we found that a large proportion (39...
Leonid Ryzhyk, Peter Chubb, Ihor Kuz, Gernot Heise...
EUROSYS
2007
ACM
14 years 6 months ago
Latency and bandwidth-minimizing failure detectors
Failure detectors are fundamental building blocks in distributed systems. Multi-node failure detectors, where the detector is tasked with monitoring N other nodes, play a critical...
Kelvin C. W. So, Emin Gün Sirer
EUROSYS
2006
ACM
14 years 6 months ago
Thorough static analysis of device drivers
Bugs in kernel-level device drivers cause 85% of the system crashes in the Windows XP operating system [44]. One of the sources of these errors is the complexity of the Windows dr...
Thomas Ball, Ella Bounimova, Byron Cook, Vladimir ...
EUROSYS
2006
ACM
14 years 6 months ago
On the road to recovery: restoring data after disasters
—Restoring data operations after a disaster is a daunting task: how should recovery be performed to minimize data loss and application downtime? Administrators are under consider...
Kimberly Keeton, Dirk Beyer 0002, Ernesto Brau, Ar...