Caches are notorious for their unpredictability. It is difficult or even impossible to predict if a memory access results in a definite cache hit or miss. This unpredictability i...
Understanding large software systems is difficult. Traditionally, automated tools are used to assist program understanding. However, the representations constructed by these tool...
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 ...
The growing number of information security breaches in electronic and computing systems calls for new design paradigms that consider security as a primary design objective. This i...
In this paper we present the Cataclysm server platform for handling extreme overloads in hosted Internet applications. The primary contribution of our work is to develop a low ove...