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SIGCSE
2005
ACM
156views Education» more  SIGCSE 2005»
14 years 1 months ago
Experiences teaching operating systems using virtual platforms and linux
Operating system courses teach students much more when they provide hands-on kernel-level project experience with a real operating system. However, enabling a large class of stude...
Jason Nieh, Chris Vaill
CSREAESA
2010
13 years 5 months ago
Customizable and Predictable Synchronization in a Component-Based OS
Component-based operating systems enable embedded systems to adapt system policies, mechanisms, and abstractions to the specific workloads and contexts of each system. The scope o...
Gabriel Parmer, Jiguo Song
CLUSTER
2003
IEEE
14 years 23 days ago
A Performance Comparison of Linux and a Lightweight Kernel
In this paper, we compare running the Linux operating system on the compute nodes of ASCI Red hardware to running a specialized, highly-optimized lightweight kernel (LWK) operatin...
Ron Brightwell, Rolf Riesen, Keith D. Underwood, T...
SPLC
2008
13 years 9 months ago
The Linux Kernel Configurator as a Feature Modeling Tool
In order to contribute to the understanding of how the SPL community and the open source community can benefit from each other, we present the Linux Kernel Configurator (LKC). We ...
Julio Sincero, Wolfgang Schröder-Preikschat
ASPLOS
2009
ACM
14 years 8 months ago
Maximum benefit from a minimal HTM
A minimal, bounded hardware transactional memory implementation significantly improves synchronization performance when used in an operating system kernel. We add HTM to Linux 2.4...
Owen S. Hofmann, Christopher J. Rossbach, Emmett W...