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USENIX
1993
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An Analysis of File Migration in a UNIX Supercomputing Environment
The supercomputer center at the National Center for Atmospheric Research (NCAR) migrates large numbers of files to and from its mass storage system (MSS) because there is insuf...
Ethan L. Miller, Randy H. Katz
USENIX
1994
14 years 28 days ago
Operating System Support for Distributed Multimedia
Sape J. Mullender, Ian M. Leslie, Derek McAuley
USENIX
1993
14 years 28 days ago
The Design and Implementation of the Inversion File System
This paper describes the design, implementation, and performance of the Inversion file system. Inversion provides a rich set of services to file system users, and manages a larg...
Michael A. Olson
USENIX
1994
14 years 28 days ago
A Quantitative Analysis of Disk Drive Power Management in Portable Computers
With the advent and subsequent popularity of portable computers, power management of system components has become an important issue. Current portable computers implement a number...
Kester Li, Roger Kumpf, Paul Horton, Thomas E. And...
USENIX
1994
14 years 28 days ago
Improving the Write Performance of an NFS Server
The Network File System (NFS) utilizes a stateless protocol between clients and servers; the major advantage of this statelessness is that NFS crash recovery is very easy. However...
Chet Juszczak
USENIX
1994
14 years 28 days ago
TreadMarks: Distributed Shared Memory on Standard Workstations and Operating Systems
TreadMarks is a distributed shared memory DSM system for standard Unix systems such as SunOS and Ultrix. This paper presents a performance evaluation of TreadMarks running on Ultr...
Peter J. Keleher, Alan L. Cox, Sandhya Dwarkadas, ...
USENIX
1994
14 years 28 days ago
File System Design for an NFS File Server Appliance
Dave Hitz, James Lau, Michael A. Malcolm
USENIX
1993
14 years 28 days ago
The BSD Packet Filter: A New Architecture for User-level Packet Capture
Manyversions of Unix provide facilities for user-levelpacket capture, making possible the use of general purpose workstations for network monitoring. Because network monitors run ...
Steven McCanne, Van Jacobson
USENIX
1994
14 years 28 days ago
Experiences with a Survey Tool for Discovering Network Time Protocol Servers
The Network Time Protocol (NTP) is widely used to synchronize computer clocks throughout the Internet. Existing NTP clients and servers form a very large distributed system, and y...
James D. Guyton, Michael F. Schwartz