One way to provide fault isolation among cooperating software modules is to place each in
its own address space. However, for tightly-coupled modules, this solution incurs prohibitive …

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

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 …

Every operating system embodies a collection of design decisions. Many of the decisions
behind today's most popular operating systems have remained unchanged, even as …

Weak Consistency: A Generalized Theory and Optimistic Implementations for Distributed
Transactions Atul Adya Page 1 Weak Consistency: A Generalized Theory and Optimistic …

The authors describe the motivation, design, and performance of Midway, a programming
system for a distributed shared memory multicomputer (DSM) such as an ATM-based …

One of the main challenges in networking today is speeding up the rate of data
transmissions, an issue of increasing importance as the dependence on computer …

The sustained performance of fast processors is critically dependent on cache performance.
Cache performance in turn depends on locality of reference. When an operating system …

The importance of the Translation Lookaside Buffer (TLB) on system performance is well
known. There have been numerous prior efforts addressing TLB design issues for cutting …

During the past decade, the microprocessor has become a key commodity component for
building all kinds of computational systems. During this time frame, large reconfigurable …