Singularity is a research project in Microsoft Research that started with the question: what
would a software platform look like if it was designed from scratch with the primary goal of …

General-purpose operating systems provide inadequate support for resource management
in large-scale servers. Applications lack sufficient control over scheduling and management …

The goal of the Rialto project at Microsoft Research is to build a system architecture
supporting coexisting independent real-time (and non-real-time) programs. Unlike traditional …

Quality of service (QoS) has been receiving wide attention in many research communities
including networking, multimedia systems, real-time systems and distributed systems. In …

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 …

Internet centers host services for e-banks, e-auctions and other clients. Hosting centers then
must allocate servers among clients to maximize revenue. The limited number of servers …

The functional consolidation induced by the cost reduction trends in embedded systems can
force tasks of different criticality (eg ABS Brakes with DVD) to share a processor and …

Real-time middleware services must guarantee predictable performance under specified
load and failure conditions, and ensure graceful degradation when these conditions are …

Workstations and personal computers are increasingly being used for applications with real-
time characteristics such as speech understanding and synthesis, media computations and …

In network (eg, Web) servers, it is often desirable to isolate the performance of different
classes of requests from each other. That is, one seeks to achieve that a certain minimal …