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...
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...
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...
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...
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...