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ACM
13 years 7 months ago
Exploring Failure Transparency and the Limits of Generic Recovery
: We explore the abstraction of failure transparency in which the operating system provides the illusion of failure-free operation. To provide failure transparency, an operating sy...
David E. Lowell, Subhachandra Chandra, Peter M. Ch...
OSDI
2000
ACM
13 years 7 months ago
Towards Higher Disk Head Utilization: Extracting "Free" Bandwidth from Busy Disk Drives
Freeblock scheduling is a new approach to utilizing more of disks' potential media bandwidths. By filling rotational latency periods with useful media transfers, 20{50% of a ...
Christopher R. Lumb, Jiri Schindler, Gregory R. Ga...
OSDI
2000
ACM
13 years 7 months ago
Surplus Fair Scheduling: A Proportional-Share CPU Scheduling Algorithm for Symmetric Multiprocessors
In this paper, we present surplus fair scheduling (SFS), a proportional-share CPU scheduler designed for symmetric multiprocessors. We first show that the infeasibility of certain...
Abhishek Chandra, Micah Adler, Pawan Goyal, Prasha...
OSDI
2000
ACM
13 years 7 months ago
Overcast: Reliable Multicasting with an Overlay Network
Overcast is an application-level multicasting system that can be incrementally deployed using today's Internet infrastructure. These properties stem from Overcast's impl...
John Jannotti, David K. Gifford, Kirk L. Johnson, ...
OSDI
2000
ACM
13 years 7 months ago
Policies for Dynamic Clock Scheduling
Pocket computers are beginning to emerge that provide sufficient processing capability and memory capacity to run traditional desktop applications and operating systems on them. T...
Dirk Grunwald, Philip Levis, Keith I. Farkas, Char...