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Reincarnating PCs with Portable SoulPads

Abstract: 

The ability to walk up to any computer, personalize it, and use it as one's own has long been a goal of mobile computing research. We present SoulPad, a new approach based on carrying an auto-configuring operating system along with a suspended virtual machine on a small portable device. With this approach, the computer boots from the device and resumes the virtual machine, thus giving the user access to his personal environment, including previously running computations. SoulPad has minimal infrastructure requirements and is therefore applicable to a wide range of conditions, particularly in developing countries. We report our experience implementing SoulPad and using it on a variety of hardware configurations. We address challenges common to systems similar to SoulPad, and show that the SoulPad model has significant potential as a mobility solution.

Ramón Cáceres, IBM T.J. Watson Research Center

Casey Carter, IBM T.J. Watson Research Center

Chandra Narayanaswami, IBM T.J. Watson Research Center

Mandayam Raghunath, IBM T.J. Watson Research Center

BibTeX
@inproceedings {269325,
author = {Ramon Caceres and Casey Carter and Chandra Narayanaswami and Mandayam Raghunath},
title = {Reincarnating PCs with Portable SoulPads},
booktitle = {Third International Conference on Mobile Systems, Applications, and Services (MobiSys2005 )},
year = {2005},
address = {Seattle, WA},
url = {https://www.usenix.org/conference/mobisys2005/reincarnating-pcs-portable-soulpads},
publisher = {{USENIX} Association},
month = jun,
}
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