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USENIX
1993
13 years 6 months ago
Measurement, Analysis, and Improvement of UDP/IP Throughput for the DECstation 5000
Networking software is a growing bottleneck in modern workstations, particularly for high throughput applications such as networked digital video. We measure various components of...
Jonathan Kay, Joseph Pasquale
USENIX
1993
13 years 6 months ago
HighLight: Using a Log-structured File System for Tertiary Storage Management
Robotic storage devices offer huge storage capacity at a low cost per byte, but with large access times. Integrating these devices into the storage hierarchy presents a challenge ...
John T. Kohl, Carl Staelin, Michael Stonebraker
USENIX
1993
13 years 6 months ago
Essence: A Resource Discovery System Based on Semantic File Indexing
Discovering different types of file resources (such as documentation, programs, and images) in the vast amount of data contained within network file systems is useful for both u...
Darren R. Hardy, Michael F. Schwartz
USENIX
1993
13 years 6 months ago
Es: A shell with higher-order functions
Paul Haahr, Byron Rakitzis
USENIX
1993
13 years 6 months ago
AudioFile: A Network-Transparent System for Distributed Audio Applications
AudioFile is a portable, device-independent, network-transparent system for computer audio systems. to the X Window System, it provides an abstract audio device interface with a s...
Jim Gettys, Thoms M. Levergood, Andrew C. Payne, L...
USENIX
1993
13 years 6 months ago
Linking Shared Segments
As an alternative to communication via messages or files, shared memory has the potential to be simpler, faster, and less wasteful of space. Unfortunately, the mechanisms availab...
W. E. Garrett, Michael L. Scott, Ricardo Bianchini...
USENIX
1993
13 years 6 months ago
Exploiting In-Kernel Data Paths to Improve I/O Throughput and CPU Availability
We present the motivation, design, implementation, and performance evaluation of a UNIX kernel mechanism capable of establishing fast in-kernel data pathways between I/O objects. ...
Kevin R. Fall, Joseph Pasquale
USENIX
1993
13 years 6 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....