EUROSYS
2009
ACM
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2009
ACM
Recently, flash-based solid-state drives (SSDs) have become standard options for laptop and desktop storage, but their impact on enterprise server storage has not been studied. P...
EUROSYS
2009
ACM
14 years 11 months ago
2009
ACM
Device drivers are notorious for being a major source of failure in operating systems. In analysing a sample of real defects in Linux drivers, we found that a large proportion (39...
EUROSYS
2009
ACM
14 years 11 months ago
2009
ACM
Program source is an intermediate representation of software; it lies between a developer’s intention and the hardware’s execution. Despite advances in languages and developme...
EUROSYS
2009
ACM
14 years 11 months ago
2009
ACM
Many of today’s web sites contain substantial amounts of client-side code, and consequently, they act more like programs than simple documents. This creates robustness and perfo...
EUROSYS
2009
ACM
14 years 11 months ago
2009
ACM
Managing the power consumption of computing platforms is a complicated problem thanks to a multitude of hardware configuration options and characteristics. Much of the academic r...
EUROSYS
2009
ACM
14 years 11 months ago
2009
ACM
This paper evaluates pointer tainting, an incarnation of Dynamic Information Flow Tracking (DIFT), which has recently become an important technique in system security. Pointer tai...
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2009
ACM
14 years 11 months ago
2009
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EUROSYS
2009
ACM
14 years 11 months ago
2009
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EUROSYS
2009
ACM
14 years 11 months ago
2009
ACM
Memory bugs in C/C++ programs severely affect system availability and security. This paper presents First-Aid, a lightweight runtime system that survives software failures caused ...
EUROSYS
2009
ACM
14 years 11 months ago
2009
ACM
In a Multi-Variant Execution Environment (MVEE), several slightly different versions of the same program are executed in lockstep. While this is done, a monitor compares the behav...