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...
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...
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...
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 ...
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...