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OSDI
1996
ACM
14 years 29 days ago
Automatic Compiler-Inserted I/O Prefetching for Out-of-Core Applications
Current operating systems offer poor performance when a numeric application's working set does not fit in main memory. As a result, programmers who wish to solve "out-of...
Todd C. Mowry, Angela K. Demke, Orran Krieger
OSDI
1996
ACM
14 years 29 days ago
Making Paths Explicit in the Scout Operating System
This paper makes a case for paths as an explicit abstraction in operating system design. Paths provide a unifying infrastructure for several OS mechanisms that have been introduce...
David Mosberger, Larry L. Peterson
OSDI
1996
ACM
14 years 29 days ago
An Implementation of the Hamlyn Sender-Managed Interface Architecture
Gregory D. Buzzard, David Jacobson, Milon Mackey, ...
OSDI
1994
ACM
14 years 29 days ago
Scheduling for Reduced CPU Energy
The energy usage of computer systems is becoming more important, especially for battery operated systems. Displays, disks, and cpus, in that order, use the most energy. Reducing t...
Mark Weiser, Brent B. Welch, Alan J. Demers, Scott...
OSDI
1994
ACM
14 years 29 days ago
HiPEC: High Performance External Virtual Memory Caching
Traditional operating systems use a xed LRU-like page replacement policy and centralized frame pool that cannot properly serve all types of memory access patterns of various appli...
Chao-Hsien Lee, Meng Chang Chen, Ruei-Chuan Chang
OSDI
1994
ACM
14 years 29 days ago
Lottery Scheduling: Flexible Proportional-Share Resource Management
This paper presents lottery scheduling, a novel randomized resource allocation mechanism. Lottery scheduling provides efficient, responsive control over the relative execution rat...
Carl A. Waldspurger, William E. Weihl
OSDI
1994
ACM
14 years 29 days ago
Experiences with Locking in a NUMA Multiprocessor Operating System Kernel
We describe the lockingarchitecture of a new operating system, HURRICANE, designed for large scale shared-memory multiprocessors. Many papers already describe kernel lockingtechni...
Ronald C. Unrau, Orran Krieger, Benjamin Gamsa, Mi...
OSDI
1994
ACM
14 years 29 days ago
Metadata Update Performance in File Systems
Structural changes, such as file creation and block allocation, have consistently been identified as file system performance problems in many user environments. We compare several...
Gregory R. Ganger, Yale N. Patt
OSDI
1994
ACM
14 years 29 days ago
Distributed Filaments: Efficient Fine-Grain Parallelism on a Cluster of Workstations
A fine-grain parallel program is one in which processes are typically small, ranging from a few to a few hundred instructions. Fine-grain parallelism arises naturally in many situ...
Vincent W. Freeh, David K. Lowenthal, Gregory R. A...