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ICDCS
1998
IEEE
15 years 7 months ago
Low-Overhead Protocols for Fault-Tolerant File Sharing
In this paper, we quantify the adverse effect of file sharing on the performance of reliable distributed applications. We demonstrate that file sharing incurs significant overhead...
Lorenzo Alvisi, Sriram Rao, Harrick M. Vin
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HIPS
1997
IEEE
15 years 7 months ago
Complexity and Performance in Parallel Programming Languages
Several parallel programming languages, libraries and environments have been developed to ease the task of writing programs for multiprocessors. Proponents of each approach often ...
Steven P. Vanderwiel, Daphna Nathanson, David J. L...
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SIGCOMM
1997
ACM
15 years 7 months ago
A Framework for Robust Measurement-Based Admission Control
— Measurement-based admission control (MBAC) is an attractive mechanism to concurrently offer quality of service (QoS) to users, without requiring a priori traffic specificatio...
Matthias Grossglauser, David N. C. Tse
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ECOOP
2006
Springer
15 years 7 months ago
The Runtime Structure of Object Ownership
Object-oriented programs often require large heaps to run properly or meet performance goals. They use high-overhead collections, bulky data models, and large caches. Discovering t...
Nick Mitchell
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OSDI
1996
ACM
15 years 4 months ago
Dealing with Disaster: Surviving Misbehaved Kernel Extensions
Today's extensible operating systems allow applications to modify kernel behavior by providing mechanisms for application code to run in the kernel address space. The advanta...
Margo I. Seltzer, Yasuhiro Endo, Christopher Small...