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SOSP
2009
ACM
14 years 8 months ago
Modular data storage with Anvil
Databases have achieved orders-of-magnitude performance improvements by changing the layout of stored data – for instance, by arranging data in columns or compressing it before ...
Mike Mammarella, Shant Hovsepian, Eddie Kohler
SOSP
2009
ACM
14 years 8 months ago
Fabric: a platform for secure distributed computation and storage
Fabric is a new system and language for building secure distributed information systems. It is a decentralized system that allows heterogeneous network nodes to securely share bot...
Jed Liu, Michael D. George, K. Vikram, Xin Qi, Luc...
SOSP
2009
ACM
14 years 8 months ago
Quincy: fair scheduling for distributed computing clusters
This paper addresses the problem of scheduling concurrent jobs on clusters where application data is stored on the computing nodes. This setting, in which scheduling computations ...
Michael Isard, Vijayan Prabhakaran, Jon Currey, Ud...
SOSP
2007
ACM
14 years 8 months ago
Sinfonia: a new paradigm for building scalable distributed systems
We propose a new paradigm for building scalable distributed systems. Our approach does not require dealing with message-passing protocols—a major complication in existing distri...
Marcos Kawazoe Aguilera, Arif Merchant, Mehul A. S...
SOSP
2007
ACM
14 years 8 months ago
Triage: diagnosing production run failures at the user's site
Diagnosing production run failures is a challenging yet important task. Most previous work focuses on offsite diagnosis, i.e. development site diagnosis with the programmers prese...
Joseph Tucek, Shan Lu, Chengdu Huang, Spiros Xanth...
SOSP
2007
ACM
14 years 8 months ago
/*icomment: bugs or bad comments?*/
Commenting source code has long been a common practice in software development. Compared to source code, comments are more direct, descriptive and easy-to-understand. Comments and...
Lin Tan, Ding Yuan, Gopal Krishna, Yuanyuan Zhou
SOSP
2007
ACM
14 years 8 months ago
SecVisor: a tiny hypervisor to provide lifetime kernel code integrity for commodity OSes
We propose SecVisor, a tiny hypervisor that ensures code integrity for commodity OS kernels. In particular, SecVisor ensures that only approved code can execute in kernel mode ove...
Arvind Seshadri, Mark Luk, Ning Qu, Adrian Perrig
SOSP
2007
ACM
14 years 8 months ago
TxLinux: using and managing hardware transactional memory in an operating system
TxLinux is a variant of Linux that is the first operating system to use hardware transactional memory (HTM) as a synchronization primitive, and the first to manage HTM in the sc...
Christopher J. Rossbach, Owen S. Hofmann, Donald E...
SOSP
2007
ACM
14 years 8 months ago
VirtualPower: coordinated power management in virtualized enterprise systems
Power management has become increasingly necessary in large-scale datacenters to address costs and limitations in cooling or power delivery. This paper explores how to integrate p...
Ripal Nathuji, Karsten Schwan
SOSP
2007
ACM
14 years 8 months ago
MUVI: automatically inferring multi-variable access correlations and detecting related semantic and concurrency bugs
Software defects significantly reduce system dependability. Among various types of software bugs, semantic and concurrency bugs are two of the most difficult to detect. This pape...
Shan Lu, Soyeon Park, Chongfeng Hu, Xiao Ma, Weiha...