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Scalability! But at what COST?
Tuesday, May 19, 2015- 9:30am – 10:00am Frank McSherry; Michael Isard; Derek G. Murray We offer a new metric for big data platforms, COST, or the Configuration that Outperforms a Single Thread. The COST of a given platform for a given problem is the hardw ...arnold - December 12, 2021 - 9:06 am
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From Lone Dwarfs to Giant Superclusters: Rethinking Operating System Abstractions for the Cloud
Tuesday, May 19, 2015- 10:00am – 10:30am Nikos Vasilakis, Ben Karel, and Jonathan M. Smith, University of Pennsylvania Unix took a rich smorgasbord of operating system features from its predecessors and pared it down to a small but powerful set of abstrac ...arnold - December 12, 2021 - 9:06 am
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Not Your Parents' Physical Address Space
Tuesday, May 19, 2015- 11:00am – 11:30am Simon Gerber, Gerd Zellweger, Reto Achermann, Kornilios Kourtis, and Timothy Roscoe, ETH Zürich; Dejan Milojicic, HP Labs A physical memory address is no longer the stable concept it was. We demonstrate how modern ...arnold - December 12, 2021 - 9:06 am
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Beyond Processor-centric Operating Systems
paper, we describe the characteristics and consequences of memory-centric architectures and propose ...arnold - December 12, 2021 - 8:31 am
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My OS Ought to Know Me Better: In-app Behavioural Analytics as an OS Service
as we call it, is rarely used today (and if it is used, it remains siloed in one app). This paper ...arnold - December 12, 2021 - 8:31 am
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Amber: Decoupling User Data from Web Applications
Tuesday, May 19, 2015- 2:00pm – 2:30pm Tej Chajed, Jon Gjengset, Jelle van den Hooff, M. Frans Kaashoek, Massachusetts Institute of Technology; James Mickens, Microsoft Research; Robert Morris and Nickolai Zeldovich, Massachusetts Institute of Technology ...arnold - December 12, 2021 - 8:31 am
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Beyond Storage APIs: Provable Semantics for Storage Stacks
Tuesday, May 19, 2015- 2:30pm – 3:00pm Ramnatthan Alagappan, Vijay Chidambaram, Thanumalayan Sankaranarayana Pillai, Andrea C. Arpaci-Dusseau, and Remzi H. Arpaci-Dusseau, University of Wisconsin—Madison Applications are deployed upon deep, diverse storag ...arnold - December 12, 2021 - 8:31 am
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Specifying Crash Safety for Storage Systems
Tuesday, May 19, 2015- 3:00pm – 3:30pm Haogang Chen, Daniel Ziegler, Adam Chlipala, and M. Frans Kaashoek, MIT CSAIL; Eddie Kohler, Harvard University; Nickolai Zeldovich, MIT CSAIL Software that is provably correct has been a long-time goal of computer s ...arnold - December 12, 2021 - 8:31 am
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The Activity Platform
Czerwinski, and Susan Dumais, Microsoft Research In this paper, we advocate “activity” to be a central ...arnold - December 12, 2021 - 8:31 am
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The Most Dangerous Code in the Browser
top-500 Chrome extensions can trivially leak the user’s data from any site. In this paper,we argue for new ...arnold - December 12, 2021 - 8:31 am
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Inferring the Network Latency Requirements of Cloud Tenants
interest in knowing what network latency is good enough for a given application. This paper explores ...arnold - December 12, 2021 - 8:31 am
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Recommendations for Randomness in the Operating System, or How to Keep Evil Children out of Your Pool and Other Random Facts
Wednesday, May 20, 2015- 9:00am – 9:30am Henry Corrigan-Gibbs and Suman Jana, Stanford University Common misconceptions about randomness underlie the design and implementation of randomness sources in popular operating systems. We debunk these fallacies w ...arnold - December 12, 2021 - 8:31 am
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The Case for Less Predictable Operating System Behavior
defenses to insulate themselves from the operating system. This paper explores the potential benefits if ... than harm for system security. This paper describes the architecture of Chameleon, an ongoing project ...arnold - December 12, 2021 - 8:31 am
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Lax: Driver Interfaces for Approximate Sensor Device Access
Wednesday, May 20, 2015- 10:00am – 10:30am Phillip Stanley-Marbell and Martin Rinard, Massachusetts Institute of Technology Embedded sensor platforms can dissipate most of their energy in accessing sensor integrated circuits such as gyroscopes. But the al ...arnold - December 12, 2021 - 8:29 am
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ASPIRE: Iterative Specification Synthesis for Security
Wednesday, May 20, 2015- 11:00am – 11:30am Kevin Zijie Chen, Warren He, and Devdatta Akhawe, University of California, Berkeley; Vijay D'Silva; Prateek Mittal, Princeton University; Dawn Song, University of California, Berkeley How to perform a sys ...arnold - December 12, 2021 - 8:29 am
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Practical Always-on Taint Tracking on Mobile Devices
hardware-assisted techniques. This paper makes the case for an always-on taint tracking system for mobile devices ...arnold - December 12, 2021 - 8:29 am
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Rubik: Unlocking the Power of Locality and End-point Flexibility in Cloud Scale Load Balancing
In this paper, using traffic traces from a production DC, we show that prior load balancer designs ...michele - December 12, 2021 - 2:13 am
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Mercury: Hybrid Centralized and Distributed Scheduling in Large Shared Clusters
Konstantinos Karanasos, Sriram Rao, Carlo Curino, Chris Douglas, Kishore Chaliparambil, Giovanni Matteo Fumarola, Solom Heddaya, Raghu Ramakrishnan, and Sarvesh Sakalanaga, Microsoft Corporation Datacenter-scale computing for analytics workloads is incre ...michele - December 12, 2021 - 2:13 am
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FloSIS: A Highly Scalable Network Flow Capture System for Fast Retrieval and Storage Efficiency
make it too slow to retrieve relevant flows. In this paper, we present FloSIS, a highly scalable, ...michele - December 12, 2021 - 2:13 am
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Accurate Latency-based Congestion Feedback for Datacenters
Changhyun Lee and Chunjong Park, Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology (KAIST); Keon Jang, Intel Labs; Sue Moon and Dongsu Han, Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology (KAIST) The nature of congestion feedback largely governs ...michele - December 12, 2021 - 2:13 am
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Bolt: Faster Reconfiguration in Operating Systems
Sankaralingam Panneerselvam, Michael M. Swift, and Nam Sung Kim, University of Wisconsin—Madison Dynamic resource scaling enables provisioning extra resources during peak loads and saving energy by reclaiming those resources during off-peak times. Scalin ...michele - December 12, 2021 - 2:13 am
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Bistro: Scheduling Data-Parallel Jobs Against Live Production Systems
inefficient and error-prone chore of creating and maintaining copies of data. This paper describes Facebook’s ...michele - December 12, 2021 - 2:13 am
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Establishing a Base of Trust with Performance Counters for Enterprise Workloads
Andrzej Nowak, CERN openlab and École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne (EPFL); Ahmad Yasin, Intel; Avi Mendelson, Technion—Israel Institute of Technology; Willy Zwaenepoel, École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne (EPFL) Understanding the performance o ...michele - December 12, 2021 - 2:13 am
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Memory-Centric Data Storage for Mobile Systems
paper proposes MobiFS, a memory-centric design for smartphone data storage. This design no longer ...michele - December 12, 2021 - 2:44 am
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WearDrive: Fast and Energy-Efficient Storage for Wearables
Nightingale, Microsoft Research Awarded Best Paper! Size and weight constraints on wearables limit their ... operations. This paper presents WearDrive, a fast storage system for wearables based on battery-backed RAM and ...michele - December 12, 2021 - 2:44 am