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VEE
2006
ACM
14 years 1 months ago
2006
ACM
Many critical IT infrastructures require non-disruptive operations. However, the operating systems thereon are far from perfect that patches and upgrades are frequently applied, i...
SAC
2006
ACM
14 years 1 months ago
2006
ACM
This paper describes an algorithm that allows Linux to perform multilevel load balancing in NUMA computers. The Linux scheduler implements a load balancing algorithm that uses str...
EUROSYS
2008
ACM
14 years 4 months ago
2008
ACM
The basic system timer facilities used by applications and OS kernels for scheduling timeouts and periodic activities have remained largely unchanged for decades, while hardware a...
ASPLOS
2009
ACM
14 years 2 months ago
2009
ACM
We describe a strategy for enabling existing commodity operating systems to recover from unexpected run-time errors in nearly any part of the kernel, including core kernel compone...
SP
1990
IEEE
13 years 11 months ago
1990
IEEE
This paper describes the development of a virtual-machine monitor (VMM) security kernel for the VAX architecture. The paper particularly focuses on how the system's hardware,...