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USENIX
1994
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An Overview of the NetWare Operating System
The NetWare operating system is designed specifically to provide service to clients over a computer network. This design has resulted in a system that differs in several respects ...
Drew Major, Greg Minshall, Kyle Powell
USENIX
1994
14 years 5 days ago
Large Granularity Cache Coherence for Intermittent Connectivity
To function in mobile computing environments, distributed file systems must cope with networks that are slow, intermittent, or both. Intermittence vitiates the effectiveness of ca...
Lily B. Mummert, Mahadev Satyanarayanan
USENIX
1994
14 years 5 days ago
Operating System Support for Distributed Multimedia
Sape J. Mullender, Ian M. Leslie, Derek McAuley
USENIX
1994
14 years 5 days ago
A Quantitative Analysis of Disk Drive Power Management in Portable Computers
With the advent and subsequent popularity of portable computers, power management of system components has become an important issue. Current portable computers implement a number...
Kester Li, Roger Kumpf, Paul Horton, Thomas E. And...
USENIX
1994
14 years 5 days ago
Improving the Write Performance of an NFS Server
The Network File System (NFS) utilizes a stateless protocol between clients and servers; the major advantage of this statelessness is that NFS crash recovery is very easy. However...
Chet Juszczak
USENIX
1994
14 years 5 days ago
TreadMarks: Distributed Shared Memory on Standard Workstations and Operating Systems
TreadMarks is a distributed shared memory DSM system for standard Unix systems such as SunOS and Ultrix. This paper presents a performance evaluation of TreadMarks running on Ultr...
Peter J. Keleher, Alan L. Cox, Sandhya Dwarkadas, ...
USENIX
1994
14 years 5 days ago
File System Design for an NFS File Server Appliance
Dave Hitz, James Lau, Michael A. Malcolm
USENIX
1994
14 years 5 days ago
Experiences with a Survey Tool for Discovering Network Time Protocol Servers
The Network Time Protocol (NTP) is widely used to synchronize computer clocks throughout the Internet. Existing NTP clients and servers form a very large distributed system, and y...
James D. Guyton, Michael F. Schwartz
USENIX
1994
14 years 5 days ago
Reducing File System Latency using a Predictive Approach
Despite impressive advances in file system throughput resulting from technologies such as high-bandwidth networks and disk arrays, file system latency has not improved and in many...
Jim Griffioen, Randy Appleton