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OSDI
2000
ACM
13 years 6 months ago
Performance-Driven Processor Allocation
In current multiprogrammed multiprocessor systems, to take into account the performance of parallel applications is critical to decide an efficient processor allocation. In this pa...
Julita Corbalán, Xavier Martorell, Jes&uacu...
OSDI
2000
ACM
13 years 6 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 6 months ago
Proactive Recovery in a Byzantine-Fault-Tolerant System
This paper describes an asynchronous state-machine replication system that tolerates Byzantine faults, which can be caused by malicious attacks or software errors. Our system is t...
Miguel Castro, Barbara Liskov
OSDI
2000
ACM
13 years 6 months ago
Taming the Memory Hogs: Using Compiler-Inserted Releases to Manage Physical Memory Intelligently
Out-of-core applications consume physical resources at a rapid rate, causing interactive applications sharing the same machine to exhibit poor response times. This behavior is the...
Angela Demke Brown, Todd C. Mowry
OSDI
2000
ACM
13 years 6 months ago
Latency Management in Storage Systems
Storage Latency Estimation Descriptors, or SLEDs, are an API that allow applications to understand and take advantage of the dynamic state of a storage system. By accessing data i...
Rodney Van Meter, Minxi Gao
OSDI
2000
ACM
13 years 6 months ago
Devil: An IDL for Hardware Programming
Fabrice Mérillon, Laurent Réveill&eg...
OSDI
2000
ACM
13 years 6 months ago
How to Build a Trusted Database System on Untrusted Storage
Some emerging applications require programs to maintain sensitive state on untrusted hosts. This paper presents the architecture and implementation of a trusted database system, T...
Umesh Maheshwari, Radek Vingralek, William Shapiro
OSDI
2000
ACM
13 years 6 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 6 months ago
Processes in KaffeOS: Isolation, Resource Management, and Sharing in Java
Single-language runtime systems, in the form of Java virtual machines, are widely deployed platforms for executing untrusted mobile code. These runtimes provide some of the featur...
Godmar Back, Wilson C. Hsieh, Jay Lepreau
OSDI
2000
ACM
13 years 6 months ago
Interposed Request Routing for Scalable Network Storage
Darrell C. Anderson, Jeffrey S. Chase, Amin Vahdat