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2008
IEEE
16 years 15 days ago
SPRAT: Runtime processor selection for energy-aware computing
—A commodity personal computer (PC) can be seen as a hybrid computing system equipped with two different kinds of processors, i.e. CPU and a graphics processing unit (GPU). Since...
Hiroyuki Takizawa, Katsuto Sato, Hiroaki Kobayashi
RTAS
2002
IEEE
15 years 11 months ago
A Measurement-Based Analysis of the Real-Time Performance of Linux
This paper presents an experimental study of the latency behavior of the Linux OS. We identify major sources of latency in the kernel with the goal of providing real-time performa...
Luca Abeni, Ashvin Goel, Charles Krasic, Jim Snow,...
PLDI
1999
ACM
15 years 10 months ago
An Evaluation of Staged Run-Time Optimizations in DyC
Previous selective dynamic compilation systems have demonstrated that dynamic compilation can achieve performance improvements at low cost on small kernels, but they have had diff...
Brian Grant, Matthai Philipose, Markus Mock, Craig...
HOTOS
2007
IEEE
15 years 10 months ago
Microdrivers: A New Architecture for Device Drivers
Commodity operating systems achieve good performance by running device drivers in-kernel. Unfortunately, this architecture offers poor fault isolation. This paper introduces micro...
Vinod Ganapathy, Arini Balakrishnan, Michael M. Sw...
ENTCS
2007
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15 years 6 months ago
Lightweight Static Capabilities
We describe a modular programming style that harnesses modern type systems to verify safety conditions in practical systems. This style has three ingredients: (i) A compact kernel...
Oleg Kiselyov, Chung-chieh Shan