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USENIX
2004
15 years 8 months ago
Dynamic Instrumentation of Production Systems
This paper presents DTrace, a new facility for dynamic instrumentation of production systems. DTrace features the ability to dynamically instrument both user-level and kernel-leve...
Bryan Cantrill, Michael W. Shapiro, Adam H. Levent...
OSDI
1994
ACM
15 years 8 months ago
A Caching Model of Operating System Kernel Functionality
Operating system research has endeavored to develop micro-kernels that provide modularity, reliability and security improvements over conventional monolithic kernels. However, the...
David R. Cheriton, Kenneth J. Duda
FTDB
2007
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15 years 6 months ago
Architecture of a Database System
Database Management Systems (DBMSs) are a ubiquitous and critical component of modern computing, and the result of decades of research and development in both academia and industr...
Joseph M. Hellerstein, Michael Stonebraker, James ...
ICCS
2007
Springer
16 years 1 months ago
Middleware in Modern High Performance Computing System Architectures
A recent trend in modern high performance computing (HPC) system architectures employs “lean” compute nodes running a lightweight operating system (OS). Certain parts of the OS...
Christian Engelmann, Hong Ong, Stephen L. Scott
MSS
2000
IEEE
124views Hardware» more  MSS 2000»
15 years 11 months ago
Towards Mass Storage Systems with Object Granularity
Many applications, that need mass storage, manipulate data sets with KB – MB size objects. In contrast, mass storage devices work most efficiently for the storage and transfer ...
Koen Holtman, Peter van der Stok, Ian Willers