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SIGOPSE
1992
ACM
14 years 3 months ago
Names should mean what, not where
Abstract-- This paper describes the design and implementation1 of IRIS: an intentional resource indicator service. IRIS springs from the concept that end-users should not be bogged...
James O'Toole, David K. Gifford
SIGOPSE
1992
ACM
14 years 3 months ago
An experimental comparison of remote procedure call and group communication
This paper suggests that a distributed system should support two communication paradigms: Remote Procedure Call (RPC) and group commumcation. The former is used for point-to-point...
M. Frans Kaashoek, Andrew S. Tanenbaum, Kees Verst...
SIGOPSE
1994
ACM
14 years 3 months ago
Application-Aware Adaptation for Mobile Computing
This paper identifies application-aware adaptation as an essential capability of mobile clients, and provides an overview of Odyssey, an architecture that supports this capability...
Mahadev Satyanarayanan, Brian Noble, Puneet Kumar,...
SIGOPSE
1994
ACM
14 years 3 months ago
The DiSOM Distributed Shared Object Memory
Paulo Guedes, Miguel Castro, Nuno Neves
SIGOPSE
1994
ACM
14 years 3 months ago
SPIN - An Extensible Microkernel for Application-specific Operating System Services
Application domains, such as multimedia, databases, and parallel computing, require operating system services with high performance and high functionality. Existing operating syst...
Brian N. Bershad, Craig Chambers, Susan J. Eggers,...
SIGOPSE
1994
ACM
14 years 3 months ago
Using Active Messages to Support Shared Objects
This paper discusses a reliable group communication system using active messages to update shared objects. We discuss the model, implementation techniques, and our preliminary per...
Leendert van Doorn, Andrew S. Tanenbaum
PARLE
1994
14 years 3 months ago
Using Reference Counters in Update-Based Coherent Memory
Abstract. As the disparity between processor and memory speed continues to widen, the exploitation of locality of reference in shared-memory multiprocessors becomes an increasingly...
Evangelos P. Markatos, Catherine E. Chronaki
DFG
1992
Springer
14 years 3 months ago
Complexity of Boolean Functions on PRAMs - Lower Bound Techniques
Determining time necessary for computing important functions on parallel machines is one of the most important problems in complexity theory for parallel algorithms. Recently, a s...
Miroslaw Kutylowski
HICSS
1994
IEEE
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Operating System Support for Shared Memory Clusters
This paper addresses a purely software-based solution to the multiprocessor cache coherence problem by structuring an operating system to provide for the coherence of its own data...
Ronald L. Rockhold, James L. Peterson
HOTOS
1993
IEEE
14 years 3 months ago
xFS: A Wide Area Mass Storage File System
The current generation of le systems are inadequate in facing the new technological challenges of wide area networks and massive storage. xFS is a prototype le system we are devel...
Randolph Y. Wang, Thomas E. Anderson