Direct device assignment enhances the performance of guest virtual machines by allowing them to communicate with I/O devices without host involvement. But even with device assignm...
Abel Gordon, Nadav Amit, Nadav Har'El, Muli Ben-Ye...
Future microprocessors need low-cost solutions for reliable operation in the presence of failure-prone devices. A promising approach is to detect hardware faults by deploying low-...
Siva Kumar Sastry Hari, Sarita V. Adve, Helia Naei...
Device drivers are the single largest contributor to operating-system kernel code with over 5 million lines of code in the Linux kernel, and cause significant complexity, bugs an...
Processor emulators are widely used to provide isolation and instrumentation of binary software. However they have proved difficult to implement correctly: processor specificati...
Lorenzo Martignoni, Stephen McCamant, Pongsin Poos...
Numerous data center services exhibit low average utilization leading to poor energy efficiency. Although CPU voltage and frequency scaling historically has been an effective mea...
Dynamic binary translation (DBT) is a powerful technique that enables fine-grained monitoring and manipulation of an existing program binary. At the user level, it has been emplo...
Virtualization has become a standard part of many computer systems. A key part of virtualization is the all-powerful hypervisor which manages the physical platform and can access ...
The rise of multi-core processors has shifted performance efforts towards parallel programs. However, single-threaded code, whether from legacy programs or ones difficult to para...
Effective resource management of virtualized environments is a challenging task. State-of-the-art management systems either rely on analytical models or evaluate resource allocati...
Nedeljko Vasic, Dejan M. Novakovic, Svetozar Miuci...
Software developers commonly exploit multicore processors by building multithreaded software in which all threads of an application share a single address space. This shared addre...
Austin T. Clements, M. Frans Kaashoek, Nickolai Ze...