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OSDI
2006
ACM
14 years 8 months ago
2006
ACM
Operating systems are complex and their behavior depends on many factors. Source code, if available, does not directly help one to understand the OS's behavior, as the behavi...
SYSTOR
2010
ACM
14 years 1 months ago
2010
ACM
Operating system (OS) virtualization can provide a number of important benefits, including transparent migration of applications, server consolidation, online OS maintenance, and...
EUROSYS
2008
ACM
14 years 5 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...
ICS
2005
Tsinghua U.
14 years 2 months ago
2005
Tsinghua U.
As parallel jobs get bigger in size and finer in granularity, “system noise” is increasingly becoming a problem. In fact, fine-grained jobs on clusters with thousands of SMP...
ASPLOS
2008
ACM
13 years 10 months ago
2008
ACM
Nested paging is a hardware solution for alleviating the software memory management overhead imposed by system virtualization. Nested paging complements existing page walk hardwar...