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ISCA
2010
IEEE
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14 years 16 days ago
ColorSafe: architectural support for debugging and dynamically avoiding multi-variable atomicity violations
In this paper, we propose ColorSafe, an architecture that detects and dynamically avoids single- and multi-variable atomicity violation bugs. The key idea is to group related data...
Brandon Lucia, Luis Ceze, Karin Strauss
POPL
2000
ACM
13 years 11 months ago
Enforcing Trace Properties by Program Transformation
We propose an automatic method to enforce trace properties on programs. The programmer specifies the property separately from the program; a program transformer takes the program...
Thomas Colcombet, Pascal Fradet
SIGCOMM
1994
ACM
13 years 11 months ago
Improved Algorithms for Synchronizing Computer Network Clocks
The Network Time Protocol (NTP) is widely deployed in the Internet to synchronize computer clocks to each other and to international standards via telephone modem, radio and satel...
David L. Mills
USENIX
1994
13 years 8 months ago
TreadMarks: Distributed Shared Memory on Standard Workstations and Operating Systems
TreadMarks is a distributed shared memory DSM system for standard Unix systems such as SunOS and Ultrix. This paper presents a performance evaluation of TreadMarks running on Ultr...
Peter J. Keleher, Alan L. Cox, Sandhya Dwarkadas, ...
SIGCOMM
2010
ACM
13 years 7 months ago
The case for active device drivers
We revisit the device-driver architecture supported by the majority of operating systems, where a driver is a passive object that does not have its own thread of control and is on...
Leonid Ryzhyk, Yanjin Zhu, Gernot Heiser