Current operating systems offer poor performance when a numeric application's working set does not fit in main memory. As a result, programmers who wish to solve "out-of...
This paper describes a novel approach to providingmodular and extensible operating system functionality and encapsulated environments based on a synthesis of microkernel and virtu...
Bryan Ford, Mike Hibler, Jay Lepreau, Patrick Tull...
Traditional processor scheduling mechanisms in operating systems are fairly rigid, often supportingonly one fixed scheduling policy, or, at most, a few "scheduling classes&qu...
Emerging high speed networks will carry tra c for services such as video-on-demand and video teleconferencing that require resource reservation along the path on which the tra c i...
TreadMarks is a distributed shared memory DSM system for standard Unix systems such as SunOS and Ultrix. This paper presents a performance evaluation of TreadMarks running on Ultr...
Peter J. Keleher, Alan L. Cox, Sandhya Dwarkadas, ...