USENIX
2008
14 years 2 months ago
2008
We present a novel method for diagnosing configuration management errors. Our proposed approach deduces the state of a buggy computer by running predicates that test system correc...
USENIX
2008
14 years 2 months ago
2008
We propose a real real-time memory management system called Compact-fit that offers both time and space predictability. Compact-fit is a compacting memory management system for al...
USENIX
2008
14 years 2 months ago
2008
A common approach to benchmarking a server is to measure its behavior under load from a workload generator. Often a set of such experiments is required-perhaps with different serv...
USENIX
2008
14 years 2 months ago
2008
: The paravirtualized I/O driver domain model, used in Xen, provides several advantages including device driver isolation in a safe execution environment, support for guest VM tran...
USENIX
2008
14 years 2 months ago
2008
As Internet services become ubiquitous, the selection and management of diverse server platforms now affects the bottom line of almost every firm in every industry. Ideally, such ...
OSDI
2008
ACM
14 years 2 months ago
2008
ACM
DryadLINQ is a system and a set of language extensions that enable a new programming model for large scale distributed computing. It generalizes previous execution environments su...
USENIX
2007
14 years 2 months ago
2007
Spyware is a class of malicious code that is surreptitiously installed on victims’ machines. Once active, it silently monitors the behavior of users, records their web surfing ...
USENIX
2007
14 years 2 months ago
2007
—People increasingly put more than one OSes into their computers and devices like mobile phones. Multi-boot and virtualization are two common technologies for this purpose. In th...
USENIX
2007
14 years 2 months ago
2007
Current disk prefetch policies in major operating systems track access patterns at the level of the file abstraction. While this is useful for exploiting application-level access...
USENIX
2007
14 years 2 months ago
2007
Most computer defense systems crash the process that they protect as part of their response to an attack. Although recent research explores the feasibility of selfhealing to autom...