Virtualization is increasingly being used to address server management and administration issues like flexible resource allocation, service isolation and workload migration. In a...
Stephen T. Jones, Andrea C. Arpaci-Dusseau, Remzi ...
Many critical IT infrastructures require non-disruptive operations. However, the operating systems thereon are far from perfect that patches and upgrades are frequently applied, i...
Haibo Chen, Rong Chen, Fengzhe Zhang, Binyu Zang, ...
This paper proposes a novel method of achieving fast networking in hosted virtual machine (VM) environments. This method, called socket-outsourcing, replaces the socket layer in a...
“Inhabited Television” combines multiuser virtual environments with television, so that online audience-members can participate in TV shows staged in a virtual world. It is pr...
Chris Greenhalgh, John Bowers, Graham Walker, John...
From an ecological but also from an economical and in the meantime a technical view the fast ongoing increase of power consumption in today’s data centers is no longer feasible....