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2008
15 years 6 months ago
Towards Application Security on Untrusted Operating Systems
Complexity in commodity operating systems makes compromises inevitable. Consequently, a great deal of work has examined how to protect security-critical portions of applications f...
Dan R. K. Ports, Tal Garfinkel
USENIX
2007
15 years 6 months ago
Reboots Are for Hardware: Challenges and Solutions to Updating an Operating System on the Fly
Patches to modern operating systems, including bug fixes and security updates, and the reboots and downtime they require, cause tremendous problems for system users and administr...
Andrew Baumann, Jonathan Appavoo, Robert W. Wisnie...
SIGOPSE
1996
ACM
15 years 8 months ago
Server operating systems
We introduce server operating systems, which are sets of abstractions and runtime support for specialized, highperformance server applications. We have designed and are implementi...
M. Frans Kaashoek, Dawson R. Engler, Gregory R. Ga...
CLUSTER
2008
IEEE
15 years 4 months ago
Benchmarking the effects of operating system interference on extreme-scale parallel machines
We investigate operating system noise, which we identify as one of the main reasons for a lack of synchronicity in parallel applications. Using a microbenchmark, we measure the no...
Peter H. Beckman, Kamil Iskra, Kazutomo Yoshii, Su...
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EDCC
2006
Springer
15 years 7 months ago
Construction of a Highly Dependable Operating System
It has been well established that most operating system crashes are due to bugs in device drivers. Because drivers are normally linked into the kernel address space, a buggy drive...
Jorrit N. Herder, Herbert Bos, Ben Gras, Philip Ho...