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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
— 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...