We present an approach for adaptive scheduling of soft realtime legacy applications (for which no timing information is exposed to the system). Our strategy is based on the combin...
The availability of virtualization features in modern CPUs has reinforced the trend of consolidating multiple guest operating systems on top of a hypervisor in order to improve pl...
Effective use of CPU data caches is critical to good performance, but poor cache use patterns are often hard to spot using existing execution profiling tools. Typical profilers at...
Aleksey Pesterev, Nickolai Zeldovich, Robert T. Mo...
Combining access control with weakly consistent replication presents a challenge if the resulting system is to support eventual consistency. If authorization policy can be tempora...
Ted Wobber, Thomas L. Rodeheffer, Douglas B. Terry
In this paper, we propose a management framework for protecting large computer systems against operator mistakes. By detecting and confining mistakes to isolated portions of the ...
Fabio Oliveira, Andrew Tjang, Ricardo Bianchini, R...