VMware ESX Server is a thin software layer designed to multiplex hardware resources
efficiently among virtual machines running unmodified commodity operating systems. This …

As a cache eviction algorithm, FIFO has a lot of attractive properties, such as simplicity,
speed, scalability, and flash-friendliness. The most prominent criticism of FIFO is its low …

Is your memory hierarchy stopping your microprocessor from performing at the high level it
should be? Memory Systems: Cache, DRAM, Disk shows you how to resolve this problem …

Memory disaggregation over RDMA can improve the performance of memory-constrained
applications by replacing disk swapping with remote memory accesses. However, state-of …

Traditional operating systems limit the performance, flexibility, and functionality of
applications by fixing the interface and implementation of operating system abstractions …

In the area of scientific visualization, input data sets are often very large. In visualization of
computational fluid dynamics (CFD) in particular, input data sets today can surpass 100 …

Abstract Jochen Liedtke GMD—German National Research Center for Information
Technology* jochen. liedtke@ gmd. de From a software-technology point of view, the p …

This paper describes the motivation, architecture and performance of SPIN, an extensible
operating system. SPIN provides an extension infrastructure, together with a core set of …

In this paper, we present aggressive, proactive mechanisms that tailor file system resource
management to the needs of l/O-intensive applications. In particular, we show how to use …

In this article we discuss the strategic directions and challenges in the management and use
of storage systems—those components of computer systems responsible for the storage and …