Multi-tenant cloud, which usually leases resources in the form of virtual machines, has been
commercially available for years. Unfortunately, with the adoption of commodity virtualized …

Virtualization is increasingly being used to address server management and administration
issues like flexible resource allocation, service isolation and workload migration. In a …

This paper presents the open-source COREMU, a scalable and portable parallel emulation
framework that decouples the complexity of parallelizing full-system emulators from building …

Since a virtual machine independently uses its own caching policy, redundant disk
operations exacerbate the I/O virtualization overhead when virtual machines access large …

This paper proposes an approach to scaling UNIX-like operating systems for many cores in
a backward-compatible way, which still enjoys common wisdom in new operating system …

Clouds have become attractive to applications, because of its low cost and on-demand
computing model with the use of virtualization technologies. With the continual increasing …

This paper addresses the problem of hidden Markov model (HMM) topology estimation in
the context of on-line handwriting recognition. HMM have been widely used in applications …

Virtualization has recently gained popularity largely due to its promise in increasing
utilization, improving availability and enhancing security. Very often, the role of computer …

System virtualization technology has arrived on every major server and desktop computing
platform [3, 4, 46, 93]. High quality virtual machine implementations for servers [4, 101] and …

In virtual machine (VM) systems, with the increase in the number of VMs and the demands of
applications, the main memory is becoming a bottleneck of application performance. To …