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2007
ACM
14 years 1 months ago
Secure virtual architecture: a safe execution environment for commodity operating systems
This paper describes an efficient and robust approach to provide a safe execution environment for an entire operating system, such as Linux, and all its applications. The approach...
John Criswell, Andrew Lenharth, Dinakar Dhurjati, ...
SOSP
2007
ACM
14 years 1 months ago
Zyzzyva: speculative byzantine fault tolerance
We present Zyzzyva, a protocol that uses speculation to reduce the cost and simplify the design of Byzantine fault tolerant state machine replication. In Zyzzyva, replicas respond...
Ramakrishna Kotla, Lorenzo Alvisi, Michael Dahlin,...
SOSP
2007
ACM
14 years 1 months ago
Improving file system reliability with I/O shepherding
We introduce a new reliability infrastructure for file systems called I/O shepherding. I/O shepherding allows a file system developer to craft nuanced reliability policies to de...
Haryadi S. Gunawi, Vijayan Prabhakaran, Swetha Kri...
SOSP
2007
ACM
14 years 1 months ago
TxLinux: using and managing hardware transactional memory in an operating system
TxLinux is a variant of Linux that is the first operating system to use hardware transactional memory (HTM) as a synchronization primitive, and the first to manage HTM in the sc...
Christopher J. Rossbach, Owen S. Hofmann, Donald E...
SOSP
2007
ACM
14 years 1 months ago
Sinfonia: a new paradigm for building scalable distributed systems
We propose a new paradigm for building scalable distributed systems. Our approach does not require dealing with message-passing protocols—a major complication in existing distri...
Marcos Kawazoe Aguilera, Arif Merchant, Mehul A. S...