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CLUSTER
2003
IEEE
13 years 10 months ago
2003
IEEE
In this paper, we compare running the Linux operating system on the compute nodes of ASCI Red hardware to running a specialized, highly-optimized lightweight kernel (LWK) operatin...
FAST
2009
13 years 2 months ago
2009
Transactions offer a powerful data-access method used in many databases today trough a specialized query API. User applications, however, use a different fileaccess API (POSIX) wh...
COMSWARE
2006
IEEE
13 years 8 months ago
2006
IEEE
The performance of the protocol stack implementation of an operating system can greatly impact the performance of networked applications that run on it. In this paper, we present a...
NOSSDAV
2001
Springer
13 years 9 months ago
2001
Springer
Operating system enhancements to support real-time and multimedia applications often include specializations and extensions of kernel functionality, as with the kernel HTTP daemon...
CCS
2009
ACM
13 years 11 months ago
2009
ACM
Kernel rootkits have posed serious security threats due to their stealthy manner. To hide their presence and activities, many rootkits hijack control flows by modifying control d...