This paper describes the new security architecture that has been implemented as part of
JDK1. 2, the forthcoming Java Development Kit. In going beyond the sandbox security …

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

Internet hosting centers serve multiple service sites from a common hardware base. This
paper presents the design and implementation of an architecture for resource management …

Memory disaggregation promises transparent elasticity, high resource utilization and
hardware heterogeneity in data centers by physically separating memory and compute into …

Virtual machines (VMs) have recently emerged as the basis for allocating resources in
enterprise settings and hosting centers. One benefit of VMs in these environments is the …

Despite decades of research in extensible operating system technology, extensions such as
device drivers remain a significant cause of system failures. In Windows XP, for example …

Storage-class memory technologies such as phase-change memory and memristors present
a radically different interface to storage than existing block devices. As a result, they provide …

The ideal distributed file system would provide all its users with coherent, shared access to
the same set of files, yet would be arbitrarily scalable to provide more storage space and …

Advances in network and processor technology have greatly changed the communication
and computational power of local-area workstation clusters. However, operating systems still …

Inside Java (TM) 2 Platform Security, the definitive and comprehensive guide to the Java
security platform, has been thoroughly updated to reflect key additions and revisions to Java …