: Virtualized data centers enable consolidation of multiple applications and sharing of multiple resources among these applications. However, current virtualization technologies ar...
Pradeep Padala, Kai-Yuan Hou, Kang G. Shin, Xiaoyu...
Some web sites provide interactive extensions using browser scripts, often without inspecting the scripts to verify that they are benign and bug-free. Others handle users’ con...
Alexander Yip, Neha Narula, Maxwell N. Krohn, Robe...
This paper develops analytical models to predict the throughput and the response time of a replicated database using measurements of the workload on a standalone database. These m...
Sameh Elnikety, Steven G. Dropsho, Emmanuel Cecche...
Social networks are popular platforms for interaction, communication and collaboration between friends. Researchers have recently proposed an emerging class of applications that l...
Christo Wilson, Bryce Boe, Alessandra Sala, Krishn...
Recently, flash-based solid-state drives (SSDs) have become standard options for laptop and desktop storage, but their impact on enterprise server storage has not been studied. P...
Dushyanth Narayanan, Eno Thereska, Austin Donnelly...
Device drivers are notorious for being a major source of failure in operating systems. In analysing a sample of real defects in Linux drivers, we found that a large proportion (39...
Leonid Ryzhyk, Peter Chubb, Ihor Kuz, Gernot Heise...
Program source is an intermediate representation of software; it lies between a developer’s intention and the hardware’s execution. Despite advances in languages and developme...
Geoffrey Lefebvre, Brendan Cully, Michael J. Feele...
Many of today’s web sites contain substantial amounts of client-side code, and consequently, they act more like programs than simple documents. This creates robustness and perfo...
Managing the power consumption of computing platforms is a complicated problem thanks to a multitude of hardware configuration options and characteristics. Much of the academic r...
David C. Snowdon, Etienne Le Sueur, Stefan M. Pett...