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SIGOPS
2008
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Project Kittyhawk: building a global-scale computer: Blue Gene/P as a generic computing platform
This paper describes Project Kittyhawk, an undertaking at IBM Research to explore the construction of a nextgeneration platform capable of hosting many simultaneous web-scale work...
Jonathan Appavoo, Volkmar Uhlig, Amos Waterland
SIGCSE
2008
ACM
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Using iPodLinux in an introductory OS course
This paper describes a proof of concept for introducing iPods and iPodLinux into a one-semester introductory undergraduate operating systems course. iPodLinux is a version of the ...
Barry Lawson, Lewis Barnett
GEOINFORMATICA
2006
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Decreasing Computational Time of Urban Cellular Automata Through Model Portability
This paper investigates how portability of a model between different computer operating systems can lead to increased efficiency in code execution. The portability problem is not a...
Charles Dietzel, Keith C. Clarke
CORR
2010
Springer
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Security Mitigations for Return-Oriented Programming Attacks
With the discovery of new exploit techniques, new protection mechanisms are needed as well. Mitigations like DEP (Data Execution Prevention) or ASLR (Address Space Layout Randomiz...
Piotr Bania
SIGCOMM
2010
ACM
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The case for active device drivers
We revisit the device-driver architecture supported by the majority of operating systems, where a driver is a passive object that does not have its own thread of control and is on...
Leonid Ryzhyk, Yanjin Zhu, Gernot Heiser
USENIX
1990
13 years 4 months ago
Why Aren't Operating Systems Getting Faster As Fast as Hardware?
This paper evaluates several hardware platforms and operating systems using a set of benchmarks that stress kernel entry/exit, file systems, and other things related to operating ...
John K. Ousterhout
USENIX
1993
13 years 5 months ago
The Nachos Instructional Operating System
In teaching operating systems at an undergraduate level, we believe that it is important to provide a project that is realistic enough to show how real operating systems work, yet...
Wayne A. Christopher, Steven J. Procter, Thomas E....
OSDI
1996
ACM
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Automatic Compiler-Inserted I/O Prefetching for Out-of-Core Applications
Current operating systems offer poor performance when a numeric application's working set does not fit in main memory. As a result, programmers who wish to solve "out-of...
Todd C. Mowry, Angela K. Demke, Orran Krieger
OSDI
1994
ACM
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A Caching Model of Operating System Kernel Functionality
Operating system research has endeavored to develop micro-kernels that provide modularity, reliability and security improvements over conventional monolithic kernels. However, the...
David R. Cheriton, Kenneth J. Duda
SOSP
1997
ACM
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The Flux OSKit: A Substrate for Kernel and Language Research
Implementing new operating systems is tedious, costly, and often impractical except for large projects. The Flux OSKit addresses this problem in a novel way by providing clean, we...
Bryan Ford, Godmar Back, Greg Benson, Jay Lepreau,...