Pocket computers are beginning to emerge that provide sufficient processing capability and memory capacity to run traditional desktop applications and operating systems on them. T...
Dirk Grunwald, Philip Levis, Keith I. Farkas, Char...
Overcast is an application-level multicasting system that can be incrementally deployed using today's Internet infrastructure. These properties stem from Overcast's impl...
John Jannotti, David K. Gifford, Kirk L. Johnson, ...
Knit is a new component definition and linking language for systems code. Knit helps make C code more understandable and reusable by third parties, helps eliminate much of the per...
Alastair Reid, Matthew Flatt, Leigh Stoller, Jay L...
In current multiprogrammed multiprocessor systems, to take into account the performance of parallel applications is critical to decide an efficient processor allocation. In this pa...
In this paper, we present surplus fair scheduling (SFS), a proportional-share CPU scheduler designed for symmetric multiprocessors. We first show that the infeasibility of certain...