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OSDI
2008
ACM
14 years 11 months ago
Towards Virtual Passthrough I/O on Commodity Devices
A commodity I/O device has no support for virtualization. A VMM can assign such a device to a single guest with direct, fast, but insecure access by the guest's native device...
Lei Xia, Jack Lange, Peter A. Dinda
OSDI
2008
ACM
14 years 11 months ago
Block Mason
The flexibility provided by hardware virtualization allows administrators to rapidly create, destroy, and migrate systems across physical hosts. Unfortunately, the storage systems...
Dutch T. Meyer, Brendan Cully, Jake Wires, Norman ...
OSDI
2008
ACM
14 years 11 months ago
Paravirtualized Paging
Conceptually, fast server-side page cache storage could dramatically reduce paging I/O. In this extended abstract, we speculate how such a device might be used, then show how it c...
Daniel J. Magenheimer, Chris Mason, Dave McCracken...
OSDI
2008
ACM
14 years 11 months ago
GPU Virtualization on VMware's Hosted I/O Architecture
Micah Dowty, Jeremy Sugerman
OSDI
2008
ACM
14 years 11 months ago
SR-IOV Networking in Xen: Architecture, Design and Implementation
SR-IOV capable network devices offer the benefits of direct I/O throughput and reduced CPU utilization while greatly increasing the scalability and sharing capabilities of the devi...
Yaozu Dong, Zhao Yu, Greg Rose
OSDI
2008
ACM
14 years 11 months ago
Experiences with Content Addressable Storage and Virtual Disks
Efficiently managing storage is important for virtualized computing environments. Its importance is magnified by developments such as cloud computing which consolidate many thousa...
Anthony Liguori, Eric Van Hensbergen
OSDI
2008
ACM
14 years 11 months ago
Predicting Computer System Failures Using Support Vector Machines
Mitigating the impact of computer failure is possible if accurate failure predictions are provided. Resources, applications, and services can be scheduled around predicted failure...
Errin W. Fulp, Glenn A. Fink, Jereme N. Haack
OSDI
2008
ACM
14 years 11 months ago
SALSA: Analyzing Logs as StAte Machines
SALSA examines system logs to derive state-machine views of the sytem's execution, along with control-flow, data-flow models and related statistics. Exploiting SALSA's d...
Jiaqi Tan, Xinghao Pan, Soila Kavulya, Rajeev Gand...
OSDI
2008
ACM
14 years 11 months ago
Disk Drive Workload Captured in Logs Collected During the Field Return Incoming Test
Hard disk drives returned back to Seagate undergo the Field Return Incoming Test. During the test, the available logs in disk drives are collected, if possible. These logs contain...
Alma Riska, Erik Riedel
OSDI
2008
ACM
14 years 11 months ago
Error Log Processing for Accurate Failure Prediction
Error logs are a fruitful source of information both for diagnosis as well as for proactive fault handling ? however elaborate data preparation is necessary to filter out valuable...
Felix Salfner, Steffen Tschirpke