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OSDI
2002
ACM
16 years 4 months ago
The Design and Implementation of Zap: A System for Migrating Computing Environments
We have created Zap, a novel system for transparent migration of legacy and networked applications. Zap provides a thin virtualization layer on top of the operating system that in...
Steven Osman, Dinesh Subhraveti, Gong Su, Jason Ni...
ACMMSP
2006
ACM
252views Hardware» more  ACMMSP 2006»
15 years 10 months ago
Deconstructing process isolation
Most operating systems enforce process isolation through hardware protection mechanisms such as memory segmentation, page mapping, and differentiated user and kernel instructions....
Mark Aiken, Manuel Fähndrich, Chris Hawblitze...
SIGOPSE
2004
ACM
15 years 9 months ago
A sledgehammer approach to reuse of legacy device drivers
Device drivers account for the majority of an operating system’s code base, and reuse of the existing driver infrastructure is a pragmatic requirement of any new OS project. New...
Joshua LeVasseur, Volkmar Uhlig
FCCM
2006
IEEE
170views VLSI» more  FCCM 2006»
15 years 7 months ago
An Architecture for Efficient Hardware Data Mining using Reconfigurable Computing Systems
The Apriori algorithm is a fundamental correlation-based data mining kernel used in a variety of fields. The innovation in this paper is a highly parallel custom architecture impl...
Zachary K. Baker, Viktor K. Prasanna
ASPLOS
2012
ACM
13 years 11 months ago
Scalable address spaces using RCU balanced trees
Software developers commonly exploit multicore processors by building multithreaded software in which all threads of an application share a single address space. This shared addre...
Austin T. Clements, M. Frans Kaashoek, Nickolai Ze...