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2010
ACM
16 years 3 months ago
Barricade: Defending Systems Against Operator Mistakes
In this paper, we propose a management framework for protecting large computer systems against operator mistakes. By detecting and confining mistakes to isolated portions of the ...
Fabio Oliveira, Andrew Tjang, Ricardo Bianchini, R...
EUROSYS
2010
ACM
16 years 3 months ago
Delay Scheduling: A Simple Technique for Achieving Locality and Fairness in Cluster Scheduling
As organizations start to use data-intensive cluster computing systems like Hadoop and Dryad for more applications, there is a growing need to share clusters between users. Howeve...
Matei Zaharia, Dhruba Borthakur, Joydeep Sen Sarma...
EUROSYS
2009
ACM
16 years 3 months ago
Improving the responsiveness of internet services with automatic cache placement
The backends of today’s Internet services rely heavily on caching at various layers both to provide faster service to common requests and to reduce load on back-end components. ...
Alexander Rasmussen, Emre Kiciman, V. Benjamin Liv...
EUROSYS
2008
ACM
16 years 3 months ago
30 seconds is not enough!: a study of operating system timer usage
The basic system timer facilities used by applications and OS kernels for scheduling timeouts and periodic activities have remained largely unchanged for decades, while hardware a...
Simon Peter, Andrew Baumann, Timothy Roscoe, Paul ...
EUROSYS
2008
ACM
16 years 3 months ago
Parallax: virtual disks for virtual machines
Parallax is a distributed storage system that uses virtualization to provide storage facilities specifically for virtual environments. The system employs a novel architecture in ...
Dutch T. Meyer, Gitika Aggarwal, Brendan Cully, Ge...