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  OS Reading Group: Schedule

  • The Design and Implemetation of Zap:A System for Migrating Computing Environments Steven Osman, Dinesh Subhraveti, Gong Su and Jason Nieh, OSDI 2002 [PDF]
  • Preliminary Vanderpool Virtual Machine Extensions Specification Intel documentation [PDF]
  • Live Migration of Virtual Machines Christoper Clark, Keir Fraser, Steven Hand, Jacob Gorm Hansen, Eric Jul, Christian Limpach, Ian Pratt, Andrew Warfield, NSDI 2005 [PDF]
  • A Portable Kernel Abstraction For Low-Overhead Ephemeral Mapping Management Khaled Elmeleegy, Anupam Chanda, and Alan L. Cox, Usenix ATC 2005 [PDF]
  • Providing Dynamic Update in an Operating System Andrew Baumann, Gernot Heiser, Jonathan Appavoo, Dilma DaSilva, Orran Krieger, Robert W. Wisniewski, Usenix ATC 2005 [PDF]
  • Boxwood: Abstractions as the Foundation for Storage Infrastructure John MacCormick, Nick Murphy, Marc Najork, Chandramohan A. Thekkath, and Lidong Zhou OSDI 2004 [PDF]
  • Itanium -- A System Implementor's Tale Charles Gray, Matthew Chapman, Peter Chubb, David Mosberger-Tang, and Gernot Heiser, Usenix ATC 2005 [PDF]
  • Slinky -- Static Linking Reloaded Christian Collberg, John H. Hartman, Sridivya Babu, and Sharath K. Udupa, USENIX 2005 ATC [PDF]
  • Using Magpie for request extractions and workload modelling Paul Barham, Austin Donnelly, Rebecca Isaacs, and Richard Mortier, OSDI 2004 [PDF]
  • A Virtual Machine Introspection Based Architecture for Intrusion Detection Tal Garfinkel and Mendel Rosenblum, NDSS 2003 [PDF]
  • Are Virtual Machine Monitors Microkernels Done Right? Steven Hand, Andrew Warfield, Keir Fraser, Evangelos Kotsovinos, Dan Magenheimer, HotOS 2005 [PDF]
  • Aggressive Prefetching: An Idea Whose Time Has Come Athanasios E. Papathanasiou and Michael L. Scott, HotOS 2005 [PDF]
  • Broad New OS Research: Challenges and Opportunities Galen Hunt, James Larus, David Tarditi, and Ted Wobber, HotOS 2005 [PDF]
  • Stupid File Systems Are Better Lex Stein, HotOS 2005 [PDF]
  • The performance impact of kernel prefetching on buffer cache replacement algorithms
    Ali R. Butt, Chris Gniady, Y. Charlie Hu SIGMETRICS 2005 [PDF]
  • Building a Reactive Immune System for Software Services
    Stelios Sidiroglou, Michael E. Locasto, Stephen W. Boyd and Angelos D. Keromytis USENIX ATC 2005 [PDF]
  • Hibernator: Helping Disk Arrays Sleep through the Winter
    Qingbo Zhu, Zhifeng Chen, Lin Tan, Yuanyuan Zhou, Kimberly Keeton and John Wilkes
    SOSP '05 [PDF]
  • John Wilkes SIGMOD Interview
    SIGMOD RECORD (Sept. 2005)[PDF]
  • Connections: Using Context to Enhance File Search
    Craig Soules and Greg Ganger, SOSP 2005 [PDF]
  • Labels and Event Processes in the Asbestos Operating System
    Petros Efstathopoulos et al., SOSP 2005 [PDF]
  • Speculative Execution in a Distributed File System
    Edmund B. Nightingale, Peter M. Chen, and Jason Flinn SOSP 2005 [PDF]
  • FS2: Dynamic Data Replication in Free Disk Space for Improving Disk Performance and Energy Consumption
    Hai Huang, Wanda Hung, and Kang G. Shin SOSP 2005 [PDF]
  • Detecting Past and Present Intrusions through Vulnerability-Specific Predicates
    Ashlesha Joshi, Samuel T. King, George W. Dunlap, and Peter Chen
  • Idletime Scheduling with Preemption Intervals Lars Eggert and Joseph D. Touch
    SOSP 2005 [PDF]
  • Rx: Treating Bugs As Allergies--A Safe Method to Survive Software Failures Feng Qin, Joseph Tucek, Jagadeesan Sundaresan, and Yuanyuan Zhou
    SOSP 2005 [PDF] SOSP 2005 [PDF]
  • An Overview of the Singularity Project Galen Hunt, et al.
    Microsoft TR [PDF]
  • BAR Fault Tolerance for Cooperative Services Amitanand Aiyer, et al.
    SOSP 2005 [PDF]
  • Vigilante: End-to-End Containment of Internet Worms Manuel Costa, et al.
    SOSP 2005 [PDF]
  • Ursa Minor: Versatile Cluster-based Storage Michael Abd-El-Malek, et al.
    FAST 2005 [PDF]
  • On Multidimensional Data and Modern Disks Steven W. Schosser, et al.
    FAST 2005 [PDF]
  • Evaluation of Multi-level Buffer Cache Collaboration for Storage Systems Zhifeng Chen et al.
    SIGMETRICS 2005 [PDF]
  • Error Propagation Profiling of Operating Systems Andreas Johansson and Nerrag Suri
    DSN 2005 [PDF]
Old VM Group Papers
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