As the performance gap between disks and micropocessors continues to increase, effective
utilization of the file cache becomes increasingly immportant. Application-controlled file …

Application domains such as multimedia, databases, and parallel computing, require
operating system services with high performance and high functionality. Existing operating …

We consider how to improve the performance of le caching by allowing user-level control
over le cache replacement decisions. We use two-level cache management: the kernel …

Parallel Virtual Machine (PVM) is a widely-used software system that allows a
heterogeneous set of parallel and serial UNIX-based computers to be programmed as a …

Kea is a new operating system kernel which has been designed for maximum flexibility and
performance in the areas of kernel and application extensibility and dynamic …

Traditional operating systems use a xed LRU-like page replacement policy and centralized
frame pool that cannot properly serve all types of memory access patterns of various …

Manufacturing process variations lead to circuit timing variability and a corresponding timing
yield loss. Traditional corner analysis consists of checking all process corners (combinations …

We present a framework that allows applications to build and customize VM services on the
LA microkernel. While the LA microkernel's abstractions are quite powerful, using these …

We describe the locking architecture of a new operating system, HURRICANE, designed for
large scale shared-memory multiprocessors. Many papers already describe kernel locking …

In recent years, a number of architectural and operating system trends have become
evident. In architecture, semiconductor advances have allowed processor SPECmarks to …