Symmetric-ISA (instruction set architecture) asymmetricperformance multicore processors were shown to deliver higher performance per watt and area for codes with diverse architect...
Juan Carlos Saez, Manuel Prieto Matias, Alexandra ...
Emulab is a testbed for networked and distributed systems experimentation. Two guiding principles of its design are realism and control of experimentation. There is an inherent te...
Anton Burtsev, Prashanth Radhakrishnan, Mike Hible...
This paper evaluates pointer tainting, an incarnation of Dynamic Information Flow Tracking (DIFT), which has recently become an important technique in system security. Pointer tai...
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...
Recently, flash-based solid-state drives (SSDs) have become standard options for laptop and desktop storage, but their impact on enterprise server storage has not been studied. P...
Dushyanth Narayanan, Eno Thereska, Austin Donnelly...