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USENIX
2008
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Protection Strategies for Direct Access to Virtualized I/O Devices
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...
Paul Willmann, Scott Rixner, Alan L. Cox
USENIX
2008
15 years 9 months ago
Prefetching with Adaptive Cache Culling for Striped Disk Arrays
Conventional prefetching schemes regard prediction accuracy as important because useless data prefetched by a faulty prediction may pollute the cache. If prefetching requires cons...
Sung Hoon Baek, Kyu Ho Park
WSC
2007
15 years 9 months ago
Metamodeling for cycle time-throughput-product mix surfaces using progressive model fitting
A simulation-based methodology is proposed to map the mean of steady-state cycle time as a function of throughput and product mix for manufacturing systems. Nonlinear regression m...
Feng Yang, Jingang Liu, Mustafa Tongarlak, Bruce E...
USENIX
2008
15 years 9 months ago
Design Tradeoffs for SSD Performance
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 ...
Nitin Agrawal, Vijayan Prabhakaran, Ted Wobber, Jo...
USENIX
2008
15 years 9 months ago
FlexVol: Flexible, Efficient File Volume Virtualization in WAFL
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 ...
John K. Edwards, Daniel Ellard, Craig Everhart, Ro...