USENIX
2008
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2008
This paper describes Mortar, a distributed stream processing platform for building very large queries across federated systems (enterprises, grids, datacenters, testbeds). Nodes i...
USENIX
2008
13 years 6 months ago
2008
Recent popularity of interactive AJAX-based Web 2.0 applications has given rise to a new breed of security threats: JavaScript worms. In this paper we propose Spectator, the first...
USENIX
2008
13 years 6 months ago
2008
Commodity virtual machine monitors forbid direct access to I/O devices by untrusted guest operating systems in order to provide protection and sharing. However, both I/O memory ma...
USENIX
2008
13 years 6 months ago
2008
Conventional prefetching schemes regard prediction accuracy as important because useless data prefetched by a faulty prediction may pollute the cache. If prefetching requires cons...
USENIX
2008
13 years 6 months ago
2008
Solid-state disks (SSDs) have the potential to revolutionize the storage system landscape. However, there is little published work about their internal organization or the design ...
USENIX
2008
13 years 6 months ago
2008
zation is a well-known method of abstracting physical resources and of separating the manipulation and use of logical resources from their underlying implementation. We have used ...
USENIX
2008
13 years 6 months ago
2008
Continuous memory leaks severely hurt program performance and software availability for garbage-collected programs. This paper presents a safe method, called LeakSurvivor, to tole...
USENIX
2008
13 years 6 months ago
2008
Through clean-slate implementation of two storage optimizations--track-aligned extents and track-aligned RAIDs--this paper shows the values of independent validations. The experie...
USENIX
2008
13 years 6 months ago
2008
This paper presents dsync, a file transfer system that can dynamically adapt to a wide variety of environments. While many transfer systems work well in their specialized context,...
USENIX
2008
13 years 6 months ago
2008
Striping is a technique that distributes file content over multiple storage servers and thereby enables parallel access. In order to be able to provide a consistent view across fi...