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HOTOS
2003
IEEE
14 years 4 months ago
Why Events Are a Bad Idea (for High-Concurrency Servers)
Event-based programming has been highly touted in recent years as the best way to write highly concurrent applications. Having worked on several of these systems, we now believe t...
J. Robert von Behren, Jeremy Condit, Eric A. Brewe...
HOTOS
2003
IEEE
14 years 4 months ago
Magpie: Online Modelling and Performance-aware Systems
Understanding the performance of distributed systems requires correlation of thousands of interactions between numerous components — a task best left to a computer. Today’s sy...
Paul Barham, Rebecca Isaacs, Richard Mortier, Dush...
HOTOS
2003
IEEE
14 years 4 months ago
The Phoenix Recovery System: Rebuilding from the Ashes of an Internet Catastrophe
Flavio Paiva Junqueira, Ranjita Bhagwan, Keith Mar...
HOTOS
2003
IEEE
14 years 4 months ago
Flexible OS Support and Applications for Trusted Computing
Trusted computing (e.g. TCPA and Microsoft’s NextGeneration Secure Computing Base) has been one of the most talked about and least understood technologies in the computing commu...
Tal Garfinkel, Mendel Rosenblum, Dan Boneh
HOTOS
2003
IEEE
14 years 4 months ago
Scheduling and Simulation: How to Upgrade Distributed Systems
Upgrading the software of long-lived distributed systems is difficult. It is not possible to upgrade all the nodes in a system at once, since some nodes may be down and halting t...
Sameer Ajmani, Barbara Liskov, Liuba Shrira
HOTOS
2003
IEEE
14 years 4 months ago
Development Tools for Distributed Applications
The emergence of the global Internet has dramatically broadened and changed the computing landscape. In particular, much of the value in contemporary computing systems derives fro...
Mukesh Agrawal, Srinivasan Seshan
HOTOS
2003
IEEE
14 years 4 months ago
Cosy: Develop in User-Land, Run in Kernel-Mode
User applications that move a lot of data across the user-kernel boundary suffer from a serious performance penalty. We provide a framework, Compound System Calls (CoSy), to enhan...
Amit Purohit, Charles P. Wright, Joseph Spadavecch...
CLUSTER
2003
IEEE
14 years 4 months ago
A Performance Comparison of Linux and a Lightweight Kernel
In this paper, we compare running the Linux operating system on the compute nodes of ASCI Red hardware to running a specialized, highly-optimized lightweight kernel (LWK) operatin...
Ron Brightwell, Rolf Riesen, Keith D. Underwood, T...
NOSSDAV
2004
Springer
14 years 4 months ago
AMPS: a flexible, scalable proxy testbed for implementing streaming services
— We present the design, implementation, and performance evaluation of AMPS — a flexible, scalable proxy testbed that supports a wide and extensible set of next-generation pro...
Xiaolan (Ellen) Zhang, Michael K. Bradshaw, Yang G...