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USENIX
2008
13 years 6 months ago
Improving Scalability and Fault Tolerance in an Application Management Infrastructure
This paper explores the challenges associated with distributed application management in large-scale computing environments. In particular, we investigate several techniques for e...
Nikolay Topilski, Jeannie R. Albrecht, Amin Vahdat
USENIX
2008
13 years 6 months ago
A Comparative Experimental Study of Parallel File Systems for Large-Scale Data Processing
Large-scale scientific and business applications require data processing of ever-increasing amounts of data, fueling a demand for scalable parallel file systems comprising hundred...
Zoe Sebepou, Kostas Magoutis, Manolis Marazakis, A...
USENIX
2008
13 years 6 months ago
A TCP-layer Name Service for TCP Ports
Sérgio Freire, André Zúquete
USENIX
2008
13 years 6 months ago
ConfiDNS: Leveraging Scale and History to Detect Compromise
While cooperative DNS resolver systems, such as CoDNS, have demonstrated improved reliability and performance over standard approaches, their security has been weaker, since any c...
Lindsey Poole, Vivek S. Pai
USENIX
2008
13 years 6 months ago
Perspectives:  Improving SSH-style Host Authentication with Multi-Path Probing
The popularity of "Trust-on-first-use" (Tofu) authentication, used by SSH and HTTPS with self-signed certificates, demonstrates significant demand for host authenticatio...
Dan Wendlandt, David G. Andersen, Adrian Perrig
USENIX
2008
13 years 6 months ago
Vx32: Lightweight User-level Sandboxing on the x86
Code sandboxing is useful for many purposes, but most sandboxing techniques require kernel modifications, do not completely isolate guest code, or incur substantial performance co...
Bryan Ford, Russ Cox
USENIX
2008
13 years 6 months ago
Idle Read After Write - IRAW
Despite a low occurrence rate, silent data corruption represents a growing concern for storage systems designers. Throughout the storage hierarchy, from the file system down to th...
Alma Riska, Erik Riedel
USENIX
2008
13 years 6 months ago
Handling Flash Crowds from Your Garage
The garage innovator creates new web applications which may rocket to popular success
Jeremy Elson, Jon Howell
USENIX
2008
13 years 6 months ago
Diverse Replication for Single-Machine Byzantine-Fault Tolerance
New single-machine environments are emerging from abundant computation available through multiple cores and secure virtualization. In this paper, we describe the research challeng...
Byung-Gon Chun, Petros Maniatis, Scott Shenker