Supercomputing applications usually involve the repeated parallel application of discretized differential operators. Difficulties arise with higher-order discretizations their com...
Thomas J. Ashby, Anthony D. Kennedy, Stephen M. Wa...
Capsicum is a lightweight operating system capability and sandbox framework planned for inclusion in FreeBSD 9. Capsicum extends, rather than replaces, UNIX APIs, providing new ke...
Robert N. M. Watson, Jonathan Anderson, Ben Laurie...
The development of efficient parallel out-of-core applications is often tedious, because of the need to explicitly manage the movement of data between files and data structures ...
A conventional file system provides the user with generic structure and semantics for accessing files. The default scheme is sufficient for many applications. However, many applic...
Paul W. Schermerhorn, Robert J. Minerick, Peter W....
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...