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SOSP
2003
ACM
15 years 6 months ago
Improving the reliability of commodity operating systems
Despite decades of research in extensible operating system technology, extensions such as device drivers remain a significant cause of system failures. In Windows XP, for example,...
Michael M. Swift, Brian N. Bershad, Henry M. Levy
WORDS
2002
IEEE
15 years 2 months ago
Service Differentiation of Communication-bound Processes in a Real-Time Operating System
The majority of today’s Internet-based services are generally not concerned about the level of Quality of Service (QoS) presented to their users. For many such services, however...
Domenico Cotroneo, Massimo Ficco, Mauro Gargiulo, ...
SIGMETRICS
2005
ACM
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15 years 3 months ago
Fair operation of multi-server and multi-queue systems
Multi-server and multi-queue architectures are common mechanisms used in a large variety of applications (call centers, Web services, computer systems). One of the major motivatio...
David Raz, Benjamin Avi-Itzhak, Hanoch Levy
IPPS
1995
IEEE
15 years 1 months ago
Operating system support for concurrent remote task creation
This paper describes improvements to the Mach microkernel’s support for efficient application startup across multiple nodes in a cluster or massively parallel processor. Signifi...
Dejan S. Milojicic, David L. Black, Steven J. Sear...
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EUROSYS
2007
ACM
15 years 6 months ago
Container-based operating system virtualization: a scalable, high-performance alternative to hypervisors
Hypervisors, popularized by Xen and VMware, are quickly becoming commodity. They are appropriate for many usage scenarios, but there are scenarios that require system virtualizatio...
Stephen Soltesz, Herbert Pötzl, Marc E. Fiucz...