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SOSP
2009
ACM
14 years 8 months ago
Helios: heterogeneous multiprocessing with satellite kernels
Helios is an operating system designed to simplify the task of writing, deploying, and tuning applications for heterogeneous platforms. Helios introduces satellite kernels, which ...
Edmund B. Nightingale, Orion Hodson, Ross McIlroy,...
SOSP
2009
ACM
14 years 8 months ago
Automatically patching errors in deployed software
We present ClearView, a system for automatically patching errors in deployed software. ClearView works on stripped Windows x86 binaries without any need for source code, debugging...
Jeff H. Perkins, Sunghun Kim, Samuel Larsen, Saman...
SOSP
2009
ACM
14 years 8 months ago
Upright cluster services
The UpRight library seeks to make Byzantine fault tolerance (BFT) a simple and viable alternative to crash fault tolerance for a range of cluster services. We demonstrate UpRight ...
Allen Clement, Manos Kapritsos, Sangmin Lee, Yang ...
SOSP
2009
ACM
14 years 8 months ago
PRES: probabilistic replay with execution sketching on multiprocessors
Bug reproduction is critically important for diagnosing a production-run failure. Unfortunately, reproducing a concurrency bug on multi-processors (e.g., multi-core) is challengin...
Soyeon Park, Yuanyuan Zhou, Weiwei Xiong, Zuoning ...
SOSP
2009
ACM
14 years 8 months ago
Improving application security with data flow assertions
RESIN is a new language runtime that helps prevent security vulnerabilities, by allowing programmers to specify application-level data flow assertions. RESIN provides policy obje...
Alexander Yip, Xi Wang, Nickolai Zeldovich, M. Fra...
SOSP
2009
ACM
14 years 8 months ago
Debugging in the (very) large: ten years of implementation and experience
Windows Error Reporting (WER) is a distributed system that automates the processing of error reports coming from an installed base of a billion machines. WER has collected billion...
Kirk Glerum, Kinshuman Kinshumann, Steve Greenberg...
SOSP
2009
ACM
14 years 8 months ago
Modular data storage with Anvil
Databases have achieved orders-of-magnitude performance improvements by changing the layout of stored data – for instance, by arranging data in columns or compressing it before ...
Mike Mammarella, Shant Hovsepian, Eddie Kohler
SOSP
2009
ACM
14 years 8 months ago
Fabric: a platform for secure distributed computation and storage
Fabric is a new system and language for building secure distributed information systems. It is a decentralized system that allows heterogeneous network nodes to securely share bot...
Jed Liu, Michael D. George, K. Vikram, Xin Qi, Luc...
SOSP
2009
ACM
14 years 8 months ago
Quincy: fair scheduling for distributed computing clusters
This paper addresses the problem of scheduling concurrent jobs on clusters where application data is stored on the computing nodes. This setting, in which scheduling computations ...
Michael Isard, Vijayan Prabhakaran, Jon Currey, Ud...