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OSDI
2008
ACM
14 years 12 months ago
SQCK: A Declarative File System Checker
The lowly state of the art for file system checking and repair does not match what is needed to keep important data available for users. Current file system checkers, such as e2fs...
Haryadi S. Gunawi, Abhishek Rajimwale, Andrea C. A...
OSDI
2008
ACM
14 years 12 months ago
Device Driver Safety Through a Reference Validation Mechanism
Device drivers typically execute in supervisor mode and thus must be fully trusted. This paper describes how to move them out of the trusted computing base, by running them withou...
Dan Williams, Emin Gün Sirer, Fred B. Schneid...
OSDI
2008
ACM
14 years 12 months ago
Finding and Reproducing Heisenbugs in Concurrent Programs
Concurrency is pervasive in large systems. Unexpected interference among threads often results in "Heisenbugs" that are extremely difficult to reproduce and eliminate. W...
Gérard Basler, Iulian Neamtiu, Madanlal Mus...
OSDI
2008
ACM
14 years 12 months ago
R2: An Application-Level Kernel for Record and Replay
Library-based record and replay tools aim to reproduce an application's execution by recording the results of selected functions in a log and during replay returning the resu...
Zhenyu Guo, Xi Wang, Jian Tang, Xuezheng Liu, Zhil...
OSDI
2008
ACM
14 years 12 months ago
Difference Engine: Harnessing Memory Redundancy in Virtual Machines
Virtual machine monitors (VMMs) are a popular platform for Internet hosting centers and cloud-based compute services. By multiplexing hardware resources among virtual machines (VM...
Diwaker Gupta, Sangmin Lee, Michael Vrable, Stefan...
OSDI
2008
ACM
14 years 12 months ago
Binary Translation Using Peephole Superoptimizers
We present a new scheme for performing binary translation that produces code comparable to or better than existing binary translators with much less engineering effort. Instead of...
Sorav Bansal, Alex Aiken
OSDI
2008
ACM
14 years 12 months ago
Quanto: Tracking Energy in Networked Embedded Systems
We present Quanto, a network-wide time and energy profiler for embedded network devices. By combining well-defined interfaces for hardware power states, fast high-resolution energ...
Rodrigo Fonseca, Prabal Dutta, Philip Levis, Ion S...
OSDI
2008
ACM
14 years 12 months ago
Avoiding File System Micromanagement with Range Writes
We introduce range writes, a simple but powerful change to the disk interface that removes the need for file system micromanagement of block placement. By allowing a file system t...
Ashok Anand, Sayandeep Sen, Andrew Krioukov, Flore...
OSDI
2008
ACM
14 years 12 months ago
Improving MapReduce Performance in Heterogeneous Environments
MapReduce is emerging as an important programming model for large-scale data-parallel applications such as web indexing, data mining, and scientific simulation. Hadoop is an open-...
Matei Zaharia, Andy Konwinski, Anthony D. Joseph, ...
OSDI
2008
ACM
14 years 12 months ago
Everest: Scaling Down Peak Loads Through I/O Off-Loading
Bursts in data center workloads are a real problem for storage subsystems. Data volumes can experience peak I/O request rates that are over an order of magnitude higher than avera...
Dushyanth Narayanan, Austin Donnelly, Eno Thereska...