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HOTOS
2007
IEEE
14 years 4 months ago
Processor Hardware Counter Statistics as a First-Class System Resource
Today's processors provide a rich source of statistical information on program execution characteristics through hardware counters. However, traditionally, operating system (...
Xiao Zhang, Sandhya Dwarkadas, Girts Folkmanis, Ka...
HOTOS
2007
IEEE
14 years 4 months ago
MashupOS: Operating System Abstractions for Client Mashups
Jon Howell, Collin Jackson, Helen J. Wang, Xiaofen...
HOTOS
2007
IEEE
14 years 4 months ago
Hyperspaces for Object Clustering and Approximate Matching in Peer-to-Peer Overlays
Existing distributed hash tables provide efficient mechanisms for storing and retrieving a data item based on an exact key, but are unsuitable when the search key is similar, but ...
Bernard Wong, Ymir Vigfusson, Emin Gün Sirer
HOTOS
2007
IEEE
14 years 4 months ago
Relaxed Determinism: Making Redundant Execution on Multiprocessors Practical
Given that the majority of future processors will contain an abundance of execution cores, redundant execution can offer a promising method for increasing the availability and res...
Jesse Pool, Ian Sin Kwok Wong, David Lie
HOTOS
2007
IEEE
14 years 4 months ago
Live Monitoring: Using Adaptive Instrumentation and Analysis to Debug and Maintain Web Applications
AJAX-based web applications are enabling the next generation of rich, client-side web applications, but today's web application developers do not have the end-to-end visibili...
Emre Kiciman, Helen J. Wang
HOTOS
2007
IEEE
14 years 4 months ago
Automatic Mutual Exclusion
We propose a new concurrent programming model, Automatic Mutual Exclusion (AME). In contrast to lock-based programming, and to other programming models built over software transac...
Michael Isard, Andrew Birrell
HOTOS
2007
IEEE
14 years 4 months ago
Compatibility Is Not Transparency: VMM Detection Myths and Realities
Recent work on applications ranging from realistic honeypots to stealthier rootkits has speculated about building transparent VMMs
Tal Garfinkel, Keith Adams, Andrew Warfield, Jason...
HOTOS
2007
IEEE
14 years 4 months ago
HotComments: How to Make Program Comments More Useful?
Program comments have long been used as a common practice for improving inter-programmer communication and code readability, by explicitly specifying programmers' intentions ...
Lin Tan, Ding Yuan, Yuanyuan Zhou
HOTOS
2007
IEEE
14 years 4 months ago
A Web Based Covert File System
We present the idea of a web based covert file system, CovertFS. This file system allows a user to store files covertly on media sharing websites while guaranteeing confidentialit...
Arati Baliga, Joe Kilian, Liviu Iftode
HOTOS
2007
IEEE
14 years 4 months ago
Optimizing Power Consumption in Large Scale Storage Systems
Data centers are the backend for a large number of services that we take for granted today. A significant fraction of the total cost of ownership of these large-scale storage syst...
Lakshmi Ganesh, Hakim Weatherspoon, Mahesh Balakri...