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SIGMETRICS
2003
ACM
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15 years 6 months ago
Effects of clock resolution on the scheduling of interactive and soft real-time processes
It is commonly agreed that scheduling mechanisms in general purpose operating systems do not provide adequate support for modern interactive applications, notably multimedia appli...
Yoav Etsion, Dan Tsafrir, Dror G. Feitelson
OSDI
2008
ACM
16 years 1 months ago
Difference Engine: Harnessing Memory Redundancy in Virtual Machines
Virtual machine monitors (VMMs) are a popular platform for Internet hosting centers and cloud-based compute services. By multiplexing hardware resources among virtual machines (VM...
Diwaker Gupta, Sangmin Lee, Michael Vrable, Stefan...
MICRO
2009
IEEE
168views Hardware» more  MICRO 2009»
15 years 8 months ago
Ordering decoupled metadata accesses in multiprocessors
Hardware support for dynamic analysis can minimize the performance overhead of useful applications such as security checks, debugging, and profiling. To eliminate implementation ...
Hari Kannan
ISCA
1999
IEEE
104views Hardware» more  ISCA 1999»
15 years 5 months ago
Is SC + ILP=RC?
Sequential consistency (SC) is the simplest programming interface for shared-memory systems but imposes program order among all memory operations, possibly precluding high perform...
Chris Gniady, Babak Falsafi, T. N. Vijaykumar
ICPP
2007
IEEE
15 years 7 months ago
Mercury: Combining Performance with Dependability Using Self-virtualization
There has recently been increasing interests in using system virtualization to improve the dependability of HPC cluster systems. However, it is not cost-free and may come with som...
Haibo Chen, Rong Chen, Fengzhe Zhang, Binyu Zang, ...