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OSDI
15 years 6 months ago
1994 ACM 
Mobile computers such as notebooks, subnotebooks, and palmtops require low weight, low power consumption, and good interactive performance. These requirements impose many challeng...
153
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OSDI
15 years 6 months ago
1994 ACM 
We describe the lockingarchitecture of a new operating system, HURRICANE, designed for large scale shared-memory multiprocessors. Many papers already describe kernel lockingtechni...
149
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OSDI
15 years 6 months ago
1994 ACM 
A fine-grain parallel program is one in which processes are typically small, ranging from a few to a few hundred instructions. Fine-grain parallelism arises naturally in many situ...
146
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OSDI
15 years 6 months ago
1994 ACM
The energy usage of computer systems is becoming more important, especially for battery operated systems. Displays, disks, and cpus, in that order, use the most energy. Reducing t...
145
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OSDI
15 years 6 months ago
1994 ACM 
Operating system research has endeavored to develop micro-kernels that provide modularity, reliability and security improvements over conventional monolithic kernels. However, the...
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