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SOSP
2003
ACM
14 years 1 months ago
Improving the reliability of commodity operating systems
Despite decades of research in extensible operating system technology, extensions such as device drivers remain a significant cause of system failures. In Windows XP, for example,...
Michael M. Swift, Brian N. Bershad, Henry M. Levy
ISCA
2012
IEEE
281views Hardware» more  ISCA 2012»
11 years 7 months ago
LOT-ECC: Localized and tiered reliability mechanisms for commodity memory systems
Memory system reliability is a serious and growing concern in modern servers. Existing chipkill-level memory protection mechanisms suffer from several drawbacks. They activate a l...
Aniruddha N. Udipi, Naveen Muralimanohar, Rajeev B...
VEE
2012
ACM
200views Virtualization» more  VEE 2012»
12 years 10 days ago
Block storage virtualization with commodity secure digital cards
Smartphones, tablets and other mobile platforms typically accommodate bulk data storage with low-cost, FAT-formatted Secure Digital cards. When one uses a mobile device to run a f...
Harvey Tuch, Cyprien Laplace, Kenneth C. Barr, Bi ...
SIGMETRICS
2010
ACM
201views Hardware» more  SIGMETRICS 2010»
13 years 9 months ago
Transparent, lightweight application execution replay on commodity multiprocessor operating systems
We present S, the first system to provide transparent, lowoverhead application record-replay and the ability to go live from replayed execution. S i...
Oren Laadan, Nicolas Viennot, Jason Nieh
EUROSYS
2007
ACM
14 years 1 months ago
Dynamic and adaptive updates of non-quiescent subsystems in commodity operating system kernels
Continuously running systems require kernel software updates applied to them without downtime. Facilitating fast reboots, or delaying an update may not be a suitable solution in m...
Kristis Makris, Kyung Dong Ryu