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APCSAC
2006
IEEE
13 years 11 months ago
Reorganizing UNIX for Reliability
In this paper, we discuss the architecture of a modular UNIX-compatible operating system, MINIX 3, that provides reliability beyond that of most other systems. With nearly the ent...
Jorrit N. Herder, Herbert Bos, Ben Gras, Philip Ho...
CCGRID
2007
IEEE
13 years 11 months ago
Integrated Data Reorganization and Disk Mapping for Reducing Disk Energy Consumption
Increasing power consumption of high-performance systems leads to reliability, survivability, and cooling related problems. Motivated by this observation, several recent efforts f...
Seung Woo Son, Mahmut T. Kandemir
TC
2011
12 years 12 months ago
Maximizing Spare Utilization by Virtually Reorganizing Faulty Cache Lines
—Aggressive technology scaling to 45nm and below introduces serious reliability challenges to the design of microprocessors. Since a large fraction of chip area is devoted to on-...
Amin Ansari, Shantanu Gupta, Shuguang Feng, Scott ...
SIGOPSE
1990
ACM
13 years 9 months ago
A replicated Unix file system
u s e s t h e p r i m a r y c o p y r e p l i c a t i o nAbstract technique [1, 26, 27]. In this method, client calls are directed to a single primary server, which communicatesThi...
Barbara Liskov, Robert Gruber, Paul Johnson, Liuba...
LCTRTS
2011
Springer
12 years 7 months ago
An approach to improving the structure of error-handling code in the linux kernel
nguage does not provide any abstractions for exception handling or other forms of error handling, leaving programmers to devise their own conventions for detecting and handling er...
Suman Saha, Julia L. Lawall, Gilles Muller