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OSDI
2008
ACM
14 years 11 months ago
Binary Translation Using Peephole Superoptimizers
We present a new scheme for performing binary translation that produces code comparable to or better than existing binary translators with much less engineering effort. Instead of...
Sorav Bansal, Alex Aiken
OSDI
2008
ACM
14 years 11 months ago
Quanto: Tracking Energy in Networked Embedded Systems
We present Quanto, a network-wide time and energy profiler for embedded network devices. By combining well-defined interfaces for hardware power states, fast high-resolution energ...
Rodrigo Fonseca, Prabal Dutta, Philip Levis, Ion S...
OSDI
2008
ACM
14 years 11 months ago
Avoiding File System Micromanagement with Range Writes
We introduce range writes, a simple but powerful change to the disk interface that removes the need for file system micromanagement of block placement. By allowing a file system t...
Ashok Anand, Sayandeep Sen, Andrew Krioukov, Flore...
OSDI
2008
ACM
14 years 11 months ago
Improving MapReduce Performance in Heterogeneous Environments
MapReduce is emerging as an important programming model for large-scale data-parallel applications such as web indexing, data mining, and scientific simulation. Hadoop is an open-...
Matei Zaharia, Andy Konwinski, Anthony D. Joseph, ...
OSDI
2008
ACM
14 years 11 months ago
Everest: Scaling Down Peak Loads Through I/O Off-Loading
Bursts in data center workloads are a real problem for storage subsystems. Data volumes can experience peak I/O request rates that are over an order of magnitude higher than avera...
Dushyanth Narayanan, Austin Donnelly, Eno Thereska...
OSDI
2008
ACM
14 years 11 months ago
Corey: An Operating System for Many Cores
Multiprocessor application performance can be limited by the operating system when the application uses the operating system frequently and the operating system services use data ...
Aleksey Pesterev, Haibo Chen, Lex Stein, M. Frans ...
OSDI
2008
ACM
14 years 11 months ago
Lightweight, High-Resolution Monitoring for Troubleshooting Production Systems
Production systems are commonly plagued by intermittent problems that are difficult to diagnose. This paper describes a new diagnostic tool, called Chopstix, that continuously col...
Sapan Bhatia, Abhishek Kumar, Marc E. Fiuczynski, ...
OSDI
2008
ACM
14 years 11 months ago
FlightPath: Obedience vs. Choice in Cooperative Services
: We present FlightPath, a novel peer-to-peer streaming application that provides a highly reliable data stream to a dynamic set of peers. We demonstrate that FlightPath reduces ji...
Harry C. Li, Allen Clement, Mirco Marchetti, Manos...
OSDI
2008
ACM
14 years 11 months ago
Gadara: Dynamic Deadlock Avoidance for Multithreaded Programs
Deadlock is an increasingly pressing concern as the multicore revolution forces parallel programming upon the average programmer. Existing approaches to deadlock impose onerous bu...
Manjunath Kudlur, Scott A. Mahlke, Stéphane...
OSDI
2008
ACM
14 years 11 months ago
Empirical Analysis on Energy Efficiency of Flash-based SSDs
This paper analyzes the power consumption patterns and the energy efficiency of flash-based SSDs using microbenchmarks for raw I/Os as well as macrobenchmarks with two different f...
Euiseong Seo, Seon-Yeong Park, Bhuvan Urgaonkar