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USENIX
2007
13 years 9 months ago
Virtual Machine Memory Access Tracing with Hypervisor Exclusive Cache
Virtual machine (VM) memory allocation and VM consolidation can benefit from the prediction of VM page miss rate at each candidate memory size. Such prediction is challenging for...
Pin Lu, Kai Shen
SOFSEM
2009
Springer
14 years 4 months ago
Time and Fairness in a Process Algebra with Non-blocking Reading
We introduce the first process algebra with non-blocking reading actions for modelling concurrent asynchronous systems. We study the impact this new kind of actions has on fairnes...
Flavio Corradini, Maria Rita Di Berardini, Walter ...
ENTCS
2002
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13 years 7 months ago
Composition of Distributed Software with Algon - Concepts and Possibilities
The perceived advantages of distributed systems, such as increased reliability and availability, are o set by the increased complexity of developing such applications. The develop...
Judith Bishop, Karen Renaud, Basil Worrall
TSE
1998
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13 years 7 months ago
Designing Masking Fault-Tolerance via Nonmasking Fault-Tolerance
—Masking fault-tolerance guarantees that programs continually satisfy their specification in the presence of faults. By way of contrast, nonmasking fault-tolerance does not guara...
Anish Arora, Sandeep S. Kulkarni
RTSS
2005
IEEE
14 years 28 days ago
Preemptible Atomic Regions for Real-Time Java
nt a new concurrency control abstraction for real-time systems called preemptible atomic regions (PARs). PARs a transactional mechanism that improves upon lock-based mutual exclus...
Jeremy Manson, Jason Baker, Antonio Cunei, Suresh ...