A large number of user requests execute (often concurrently) within a server system. A single request may exhibit fluctuating hardware characteristics (such as instruction comple...
Device drivers on commodity operating systems execute with kernel privilege and have unfettered access to kernel data structures. Several recent attacks demonstrate that such poor...
Shakeel Butt, Vinod Ganapathy, Michael M. Swift, C...
Automatic management of large-scale production systems requires a continuous monitoring service to keep track of the states of the managed system. However, it is challenging to ac...
Chip-multiprocessors are quickly gaining momentum in all segments of computing. However, the practical success of CMPs strongly depends on addressing the difficulty of multithread...
Sewook Wee, Jared Casper, Njuguna Njoroge, Yuriy T...
is a simple and elegant abstraction that allows concurrency to be expressed often through a relatively small rewrite of a sequential program. In the absence of side-effects, futur...