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2011
ACM
14 years 3 months ago
SRM-buffer: an OS buffer management technique to prevent last level cache from thrashing in multicores
Buffer caches in operating systems keep active file blocks in memory to reduce disk accesses. Related studies have been focused on how to minimize buffer misses and the caused pe...
Xiaoning Ding, Kaibo Wang, Xiaodong Zhang
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2011
ACM
14 years 3 months ago
Increasing performance in byzantine fault-tolerant systems with on-demand replica consistency
Traditional agreement-based Byzantine fault-tolerant (BFT) systems process all requests on all replicas to ensure consistency. In addition to the overhead for BFT protocol and sta...
Tobias Distler, Rüdiger Kapitza
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2011
ACM
14 years 3 months ago
Scarlett: coping with skewed content popularity in mapreduce clusters
To improve data availability and resilience MapReduce frameworks use file systems that replicate data uniformly. However, analysis of job logs from a large production cluster show...
Ganesh Ananthanarayanan, Sameer Agarwal, Srikanth ...
100
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EUROSYS
2011
ACM
14 years 3 months ago
Energy management in mobile devices with the cinder operating system
We argue that controlling energy allocation is an increasingly useful and important feature for operating systems, especially on mobile devices. We present two new low-level ions ...
Arjun Roy, Stephen M. Rumble, Ryan Stutsman, Phili...
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2011
ACM
14 years 3 months ago
Database engines on multicores, why parallelize when you can distribute?
Multicore computers pose a substantial challenge to infrastructure software such as operating systems or databases. Such software typically evolves slower than the underlying hard...
Tudor-Ioan Salomie, Ionut Emanuel Subasu, Jana Gic...