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EUROSYS
2006
ACM
14 years 8 months ago
Thorough static analysis of device drivers
Bugs in kernel-level device drivers cause 85% of the system crashes in the Windows XP operating system [44]. One of the sources of these errors is the complexity of the Windows dr...
Thomas Ball, Ella Bounimova, Byron Cook, Vladimir ...
EUROSYS
2007
ACM
14 years 8 months ago
Antiquity: exploiting a secure log for wide-area distributed storage
Antiquity is a wide-area distributed storage system designed to provide a simple storage service for applications like file systems and back-up. The design assumes that all serve...
Hakim Weatherspoon, Patrick R. Eaton, Byung-Gon Ch...
EUROSYS
2007
ACM
14 years 8 months ago
Container-based operating system virtualization: a scalable, high-performance alternative to hypervisors
Hypervisors, popularized by Xen and VMware, are quickly becoming commodity. They are appropriate for many usage scenarios, but there are scenarios that require system virtualizatio...
Stephen Soltesz, Herbert Pötzl, Marc E. Fiucz...
EUROSYS
2007
ACM
14 years 8 months ago
Comparing the performance of web server architectures
In this paper, we extensively tune and then compare the performance of web servers based on three different server architectures. The µserver utilizes an event-driven architectur...
David Pariag, Tim Brecht, Ashif S. Harji, Peter A....
EUROSYS
2007
ACM
14 years 8 months ago
Melange: creating a "functional" internet
Most implementations of critical Internet protocols are written in type-unsafe languages such as C or C++ and are regularly vulnerable to serious security and reliability problems...
Anil Madhavapeddy, Alex Ho, Tim Deegan, David Scot...
EUROSYS
2007
ACM
14 years 8 months ago
Removing the memory limitations of sensor networks with flash-based virtual memory
Virtual memory has been successfully used in different domains to extend the amount of memory available to applications. We have adapted this mechanism to sensor networks, where,...
Andreas Lachenmann, Pedro José Marró...
EUROSYS
2007
ACM
14 years 8 months ago
Dryad: distributed data-parallel programs from sequential building blocks
Dryad is a general-purpose distributed execution engine for coarse-grain data-parallel applications. A Dryad application combines computational “vertices” with communication ...
Michael Isard, Mihai Budiu, Yuan Yu, Andrew Birrel...
EUROSYS
2007
ACM
14 years 8 months ago
STMBench7: a benchmark for software transactional memory
Software transactional memory (STM) is a promising technique for controlling concurrency in modern multi-processor architectures. STM aims to be more scalable than explicit coarse...
Rachid Guerraoui, Michal Kapalka, Jan Vitek
EUROSYS
2007
ACM
14 years 8 months ago
Tashkent+: memory-aware load balancing and update filtering in replicated databases
We present a memory-aware load balancing (MALB) technique to dispatch transactions to replicas in a replicated database. Our MALB algorithm exploits knowledge of the working sets ...
Sameh Elnikety, Steven G. Dropsho, Willy Zwaenepoe...