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HOTDEP
2008
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Towards Automatic Inference of Task Hierarchies in Complex Systems
Haohui Mai, Chongnan Gao, Xuezheng Liu, Xi Wang, G...
HOTDEP
2008
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A Spin-Up Saved Is Energy Earned: Achieving Power-Efficient, Erasure-Coded Storage
Storage accounts for a significant amount of a data center's ever increasing power budget. As a consequence, energy consumption has joined performance and reliability as a do...
Kevin M. Greenan, Darrell D. E. Long, Ethan L. Mil...
HOTDEP
2008
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Pretty Good Packet Authentication
Internet addresses are routinely being used to infer the identity of persons who send offending traffic
Andreas Haeberlen, Rodrigo Rodrigues, P. Krishna G...
HOTDEP
2008
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Consistability: Describing Usually Consistent Systems
Current weak consistency semantics provide worst-case guarantees to clients. These guarantees fail to adequately describe systems that provide varying levels of consistency in the...
Amitanand S. Aiyer, Eric Anderson, Xiaozhou Li, Me...
HOTDEP
2008
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Reverse-Engineering Drivers for Safety and Portability
Device drivers today lack two important properties: guaranteed safety and cross-platform portability. We present an approach to incrementally achieving these properties in drivers...
Vitaly Chipounov, George Candea
HOTDEP
2008
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Byzantium: Byzantine-Fault-Tolerant Database Replication Providing Snapshot Isolation
Database systems are a key component behind many of today's computer systems. As a consequence, it is crucial that database systems provide correct and continuous service des...
Nuno M. Preguiça, Rodrigo Rodrigues, Crist&...
HOTDEP
2008
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Toward Quantifying System Manageability
Manageability directly influences a system's reliability, availability, security, and safety, thus being a key ingredient of system dependability. Alas, we do not have today ...
George Candea
HOTDEP
2008
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Dependable Self-Hosting Distributed Systems Using Constraints
We describe a technique for writing distributed applications which manage themselves over one or more utility computing infrastructures: by dynamically acquiring new computational...
Qin Yin, Justin Cappos, Andrew Baumann, Timothy Ro...
HOTDEP
2008
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Spread-Spectrum Computation
We observe that existing methods for failure-tolerance are inefficient in their use of time, storage and computational resources. We aim to harness the power of idle desktop compu...
Derek Gordon Murray, Steven Hand