In this paper we show that application-aware adaptation, a collaborative partnership between the operating system and applications, offers the most general and effective approach ...
Brian Noble, Mahadev Satyanarayanan, Dushyanth Nar...
Real-time applications such as multimedia audio and video are increasingly populating the workstation desktop. To support the execution of these applications in conjunction with t...
This paper presents HAC, a novel technique for managing the client cache in a distributed, persistent object storage system. HAC is a hybrid between page and object caching that c...
Miguel Castro, Atul Adya, Barbara Liskov, Andrew C...
Implementing new operating systems is tedious, costly, and often impractical except for large projects. The Flux OSKit addresses this problem in a novel way by providing clean, we...
Bryan Ford, Godmar Back, Greg Benson, Jay Lepreau,...
The exokernel operating system architecture safely gives untrusted software efficient control over hardware and software resources by separating management from protection. This ...
M. Frans Kaashoek, Dawson R. Engler, Gregory R. Ga...