Device drivers are notorious for being a major source of failure in operating systems. In analysing a sample of real defects in Linux drivers, we found that a large proportion (39...
Leonid Ryzhyk, Peter Chubb, Ihor Kuz, Gernot Heise...
The access patterns performed by disk-intensive applications vary widely, from simple contiguous reads or writes through an entire file to completely unpredictable random access....
Dennis Dalessandro, Ananth Devulapalli, Pete Wycko...
This paper describes Shasta, a system that supports a shared address space in software on clusters of computers with physically distributed memory. A unique aspect of Shasta compa...
Daniel J. Scales, Kourosh Gharachorloo, Chandramoh...
Orca is a portable, object-based distributed shared memory system. This paper studies and evaluates the design choices made in the Orca system and compares Orca with other DSMs. T...
Henri E. Bal, Raoul Bhoedjang, Rutger F. H. Hofman...
The notion of distributed functional monitoring was recently introduced by Cormode, Muthukrishnan and Yi [CMY08] to initiate a formal study of the communication cost of certain fu...
Chrisil Arackaparambil, Joshua Brody, Amit Chakrab...