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HOTOS
2009
IEEE
14 years 3 months ago
FAWNdamentally Power-efficient Clusters
Vijay Vasudevan, Jason Franklin, David G. Andersen...
HOTOS
2009
IEEE
14 years 3 months ago
Security Impact Ratings Considered Harmful
In this paper, we question the common practice of assigning security impact ratings to OS updates. Specifically, we present evidence that ranking updates by their perceived securi...
Jeff Arnold, Tim Abbott, Waseem Daher, Gregory Pri...
HOTOS
2009
IEEE
14 years 3 months ago
On Availability of Intermediate Data in Cloud Computations
This paper takes a renewed look at the problem of managing intermediate data that is generated during dataflow computations (e.g., MapReduce, Pig, Dryad, etc.) within clouds. We d...
Steven Y. Ko, Imranul Hoque, Brian Cho, Indranil G...
HOTOS
2009
IEEE
14 years 3 months ago
Migration without Virtualization
Migrating a live, running operating system from one machine to another has proven to be an invaluable tool over the past few years. Today, however, the only way to migrate an OS i...
Michael A. Kozuch, Michael Kaminsky, Michael P. Ry...
HOTOS
2009
IEEE
14 years 3 months ago
Computer Meteorology: Monitoring Compute Clouds
Cloud computing environments allow customers to execute arbitrary code on hardware owned by a cloud provider. While cloud providers use virtualization to ensure isolation between ...
Lionel Litty, H. Andrés Lagar-Cavilla, Davi...
HOTOS
2007
IEEE
14 years 3 months ago
Don't Settle for Less Than the Best: Use Optimization to Make Decisions
Many systems design, configuration, runtime and management decisions must be made from a large set of possible alternatives. Ad hoc heuristics have traditionally been used to make...
Kimberly Keeton, Terence Kelly, Arif Merchant, Cip...
HOTOS
2007
IEEE
14 years 3 months ago
Purely Functional System Configuration Management
System configuration management is difficult because systems evolve in an undisciplined way: packages are upgraded, configuration files are edited, and so on. The management of ex...
Eelco Dolstra, Armijn Hemel
HOTOS
2007
IEEE
14 years 3 months ago
Towards a Practical, Verified Kernel
In the paper we examine one of the issues in designing, specifying, implementing and formally verifying a small operating system kernel -- how to provide a productive and iterativ...
Kevin Elphinstone, Gerwin Klein, Philip Derrin, Ti...
HOTOS
2007
IEEE
14 years 3 months ago
Microdrivers: A New Architecture for Device Drivers
Commodity operating systems achieve good performance by running device drivers in-kernel. Unfortunately, this architecture offers poor fault isolation. This paper introduces micro...
Vinod Ganapathy, Arini Balakrishnan, Michael M. Sw...
HOTOS
2007
IEEE
14 years 3 months ago
Auditing to Keep Online Storage Services Honest
A growing number of online service providers offer to store customers' photos, email, file system backups, and other digital assets. Currently, customers cannot make informed...
Mehul A. Shah, Mary Baker, Jeffrey C. Mogul, Ram S...