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SIGMETRICS
2010
ACM
174views Hardware» more  SIGMETRICS 2010»
13 years 7 months ago
Decomposition results for an m/m/k with staggered setup
In this paper, we consider an M/M/k queueing system with setup costs. Servers are turned off when there is no work to do, but turning on an off server incurs a setup cost. The s...
Anshul Gandhi, Mor Harchol-Balter, Ivo Adan
SIGUCCS
2003
ACM
14 years 2 months ago
It takes a village to build an image
Managing operating systems and campus-supported software can be a daunting challenge. Many colleges and universities handle these challenges by using disk imaging software to crea...
R. Mark Koan, Kelly Caye, Steven K. Brawn
EUROSYS
2011
ACM
13 years 14 days ago
SRM-buffer: an OS buffer management technique to prevent last level cache from thrashing in multicores
Buffer caches in operating systems keep active file blocks in memory to reduce disk accesses. Related studies have been focused on how to minimize buffer misses and the caused pe...
Xiaoning Ding, Kaibo Wang, Xiaodong Zhang
USENIX
2008
13 years 11 months ago
Fast, Inexpensive Content-Addressed Storage in Foundation
Foundation is a preservation system for users' personal, digital artifacts. Foundation preserves all of a user's data and its dependencies--fonts, programs, plugins, ker...
Sean C. Rhea, Russ Cox, Alex Pesterev
USENIX
2008
13 years 11 months ago
Adaptive File Transfers for Diverse Environments
This paper presents dsync, a file transfer system that can dynamically adapt to a wide variety of environments. While many transfer systems work well in their specialized context,...
Himabindu Pucha, Michael Kaminsky, David G. Anders...