USENIX
2008
14 years 1 months ago
2008
Electric energy consumed in data centers is rapidly growing. Power-aware IT, recently called `green IT', is widely recognized as a significant challenge. Disk storage is a no...
USENIX
2008
14 years 1 months ago
2008
Foundation is a preservation system for users' personal, digital artifacts. Foundation preserves all of a user's data and its dependencies--fonts, programs, plugins, ker...
USENIX
2008
14 years 1 months ago
2008
We introduce the Free Factory, a platform for deploying data-intensive web services using small clusters of commodity hardware and free software. Independently administered virtua...
USENIX
2008
14 years 1 months ago
2008
We present a novel method for diagnosing configuration management errors. Our proposed approach deduces the state of a buggy computer by running predicates that test system correc...
USENIX
2008
14 years 1 months ago
2008
We propose a real real-time memory management system called Compact-fit that offers both time and space predictability. Compact-fit is a compacting memory management system for al...
USENIX
2008
14 years 1 months ago
2008
A common approach to benchmarking a server is to measure its behavior under load from a workload generator. Often a set of such experiments is required-perhaps with different serv...
USENIX
2008
14 years 1 months ago
2008
: The paravirtualized I/O driver domain model, used in Xen, provides several advantages including device driver isolation in a safe execution environment, support for guest VM tran...
USENIX
2008
14 years 1 months ago
2008
As Internet services become ubiquitous, the selection and management of diverse server platforms now affects the bottom line of almost every firm in every industry. Ideally, such ...