SIGOPS
2008
13 years 11 months ago
2008
Self-managing storage systems have recently received attention from the research community due to their promised ability of continuously adapting to best reflect high-level system...
SIGOPS
2008
13 years 11 months ago
2008
There can be no doubt that a great many technologies have been added to Linux TM over the past ten years. What is less well-known is that it is often necessary to introduce a larg...
SIGOPS
2008
13 years 11 months ago
2008
During the last three years, we have been experimenting with the use of the Uppaal model checker in an introductory course on operating systems for first-year Computer Science stu...
SIGOPS
2008
13 years 11 months ago
2008
Object based storage devices (OSDs) elevate the level of abstraction presented to clients, thereby permitting them to offer methods for managing, sharing, and securing information...
SIGOPS
2008
13 years 11 months ago
2008
In Linux, applications like su and login currently run as root in order to access authentication information and set or alter the identity of the process. In such cases, if the ap...
SIGOPS
2008
13 years 11 months ago
2008
Many scientific applications use parallel I/O to meet the low latency and high bandwidth I/O requirement. Among many available parallel I/O operations, collective I/O is one of th...
SIGOPS
2008
13 years 11 months ago
2008
Virtual private servers and application checkpoint and restart are two advanced operating system features which place different but related requirements on the way kernel-provided...
SIGOPS
2008
13 years 11 months ago
2008
The availability of Simultaneous Multithreading (SMT) in commodity processors such as the Pentium 4 (P4) has raised interest among OS researchers. While earlier simulation studies...
SIGOPS
2008
13 years 11 months ago
2008
SIGOPS
2008
13 years 11 months ago
2008
Virtualization technology is becoming increasingly common in datacenters, since it allows for collocation of multiple workloads, consisting of operating systems, middleware and ap...