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March 24, 2015

TxLinux: Using and Managing Transactional Memory in an Operating System

Christopher J. Rossbach, Owen S. Hofmann, Donald E. Porter, Hany E. Ramadan, Aditya Bhandari, Emmett Witchel. TxLinux: Using and Managing Transactional Memory in an Operating System. in Proc. of the 21st Symposium on Operating Systems Principles (SOSP), Oct. 2007

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Experiences with Processes and Monitors in Mesa

Butler W. Lampson, David D. Redell Experiences with Processes and Monitors in Mesa Communications of the ACM, 23 2, February 1980, pp. 105-117.

Reviews due Tuesday, 3/24

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March 09, 2015

Lottery Scheduling: Flexible Proportional-Share Resource Management

C. Waldspurger and W. Weihl. Lottery Scheduling: Flexible Proportional-Share Resource Management. Proceedings of the First USENIX Symposium on Operating System Design and Implementation, November 1994.

Reviews due Thursday, 3/12.

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Scheduler Activations: Effective Kernel Support for the User-Level management of Parallelism.

Thomas Anderson, Brian Bershad, Edward Lazowska, and Henry Levy. Scheduler Activations: Effective Kernel Support for the User-Level management of Parallelism. ACM Trans. on Computer Systems 10(1), Feburary 1992, pp. 53-79.

Review due Tuesday, 3/10.

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March 01, 2015

U-Net: A User-Level Network Interface for Parallel and Distributed Computing

Thorsten von Eicken, Anindya Basu, Vineet Buch, Werner Vogels U-Net: A User-Level Network Interface for Parallel and Distributed Computing. In Proceedings of the 15th ACM Symposium on Operating Systems Principles, Copper Mountain Resort, Colorado, December 1995, 40-53.

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