Containerization is revolutionizing the way that many industries operate, provisioning major
impact to modern computing technologies because it is extra lightweight, highly portable …

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 …

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

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 …

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

5,063,562 A 11, 1991 Barzilai et al. service. The computing system may also be
implemented as 5,095,444 A 3, 1992 Motles a distributed computing system that includes …

This paper presents Capriccio, a scalable thread package for use with high-concurrency
servers. While recent work has advocated event-based systems, we believe that thread …

Message-based communication offers the potential benefits of providing stronger
specification and cleaner separation between components. Compared with shared-memory …

As the performance gap between disks and micropocessors continues to increase, effective
utilization of the file cache becomes increasingly immportant. Application-controlled file …

Specializing programs with respect to run-time invariants is an optimization technique that
has shown to improve the performance of programs substantially. It allows a program to …