Drawing inspiration from several previous projects, we present an ownership-record-free software transactional memory (STM) system that combines extremely low overhead with unusua...
Luke Dalessandro, Michael F. Spear, Michael L. Sco...
Users and administrators of large distributed systems are frequently in need of monitoring and management of its various components, data items and resources. Though there exist s...
Md. Ahsan Arefin, Md. Yusuf Sarwar Uddin, Indranil...
: Virtualized data centers enable consolidation of multiple applications and sharing of multiple resources among these applications. However, current virtualization technologies ar...
Pradeep Padala, Kai-Yuan Hou, Kang G. Shin, Xiaoyu...
Ksplice allows system administrators to apply patches to their operating system kernels without rebooting. Unlike previous hot update systems, Ksplice operates at the object code ...
In most modern operating systems, a process is a -protected abstraction for isolating code and data. This protection, however, is selective. Many common mechanisms—dynamic code ...