Modern transactional response-time sensitive applications have run into practical limits on the size of garbage collected heaps. The heap can only grow until GC pauses exceed the ...
Desktop distributed computing allows companies to exploit the idle cycles on pervasive desktop PC systems to increase the available computing power by orders of magnitude (10x - 1...
Instrumentation is commonly used to track application behavior: to collect program profiles; to monitor component health and performance; to aid in component testing; and more. P...
Marina Biberstein, Vugranam C. Sreedhar, Bilha Men...
The Progressive Deployment System (PDS) is a virtual execution environment and infrastructure designed specifically for deploying software, or “assets”, on demand while enabli...
Bowen Alpern, Joshua S. Auerbach, Vasanth Bala, Th...
Virtual Machine (VM) environments (e.g., VMware and Xen) are experiencing a resurgence of interest for diverse uses including server consolidation and shared hosting. An applicati...
Aravind Menon, Jose Renato Santos, Yoshio Turner, ...
Virtual execution environments have become increasingly useful in system implementation, with dynamic translation techniques being an important component for performance-critical ...