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USENIX
2003
13 years 8 months ago
Operating System Support for Virtual Machines
Abstract: A virtual-machine monitor (VMM) is a useful technique for adding functionality below existing operating system and application software. One class of VMMs (called Type II...
Samuel T. King, George W. Dunlap, Peter M. Chen
USENIX
2003
13 years 8 months ago
The Design of the {OpenBSD} Cryptographic Framework
Cryptographic transformations are a fundamental building block in many security applications and protocols. To improve performance, several vendors market hardware accelerator car...
Angelos D. Keromytis, Jason L. Wright, Theo de Raa...
USENIX
2003
13 years 8 months ago
Seneca: remote mirroring done write
Minwen Ji, Alistair C. Veitch, John Wilkes
USENIX
2003
13 years 8 months ago
Design and Implementation of Power-Aware Virtual Memory
Despite constant improvements in fabrication technology, hardware components are consuming more power than ever. With the everincreasing demand for higher performance in highly-in...
Hai Huang, Padmanabhan Pillai, Kang G. Shin
USENIX
2003
13 years 8 months ago
Fast, Scalable Disk Imaging with Frisbee
Both researchers and operators of production systems are frequently faced with the need to manipulate entire disk images. Convenient and fast tools for saving, transferring, and i...
Mike Hibler, Leigh Stoller, Jay Lepreau, Robert Ri...
USENIX
2003
13 years 8 months ago
POSIX Access Control Lists on Linux
This paper discusses file system Access Control Lists as implemented in several UNIX-like operating systems. After recapitulating the concepts of these Access Control Lists that ...
Andreas Grünbacher
USENIX
2003
13 years 8 months ago
Operating System I/O Speculation: How Two Invocations Are Faster Than One
We present an in-kernel disk prefetcher which uses speculative execution to determine what data an application is likely to require in the near future. By placing our design withi...
Keir Faser, Fay Chang
USENIX
2003
13 years 8 months ago
NFS Tricks and Benchmarking Traps
We describe two modifications to the FreeBSD 4.6 NFS server to increase read throughput by improving the read-ahead heuristic to deal with reordered requests and stride access pa...
Daniel Ellard, Margo I. Seltzer
USENIX
2003
13 years 8 months ago
Building a Wireless Community Network in the Netherlands
With the development of low cost hardware for wireless networking based on IEEE 802.11b, wireless networks are an emerging technology. Using these wireless techniques outdoors it ...
Rudi van Drunen, Dirk-Willem van Gulik, Jasper Koo...
USENIX
2003
13 years 8 months ago
The CryptoGraphic Disk Driver
We present the design and implementation of CGD, the CryptoGraphic Disk driver. CGD is a pseudo-device driver that sits below the buffer cache, and provides an encrypted view of a...
Roland C. Dowdeswell, John Ioannidis