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CLUSTER
2006
IEEE
15 years 6 months ago
Kernel-Level Measurement for Integrated Parallel Performance Views: the KTAU Project
The effect of the operating system on application performance is an increasingly important consideration in high performance computing. OS kernel measurement is key to understandi...
Aroon Nataraj, Allen D. Malony, Sameer Shende, Ala...
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SIGSOFT
2007
ACM
16 years 1 months ago
A framework for characterization and analysis of software system scalability
The term scalability appears frequently in computing literature, but it is a term that is poorly defined and poorly understood. The lack of a clear, consistent and systematic trea...
Leticia Duboc, David S. Rosenblum, Tony Wicks
ACSAC
2010
IEEE
14 years 10 months ago
Analyzing and improving Linux kernel memory protection: a model checking approach
Code injection continues to pose a serious threat to computer systems. Among existing solutions, W X is a notable approach to prevent the execution of injected code. In this paper...
Siarhei Liakh, Michael C. Grace, Xuxian Jiang
HOTOS
2003
IEEE
15 years 5 months ago
Cosy: Develop in User-Land, Run in Kernel-Mode
User applications that move a lot of data across the user-kernel boundary suffer from a serious performance penalty. We provide a framework, Compound System Calls (CoSy), to enhan...
Amit Purohit, Charles P. Wright, Joseph Spadavecch...
OSDI
1996
ACM
15 years 1 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...