Operating Systems

The Looming Network Wall in Data-Intensive Computing

by Spyros Blanas on Jan 18, 2018 | Tags: Databases, Datacenters, Distributed Systems, Memory, Networking, Operating Systems

Fast, RDMA-capable networks present a “network wall” for data-intensive applications in a data center. Software developers are facing two unpalatable choices: either communicate using messages and re-implement features of TCP/IP in their application, or...

Leave your OS at home: the rise of library operating systems

by Mark Silberstein on Sep 14, 2017 | Tags: Architecture, Operating Systems, Virtualization

The efficiency of Operating Systems (OSes) has always been in the spotlight of systems researchers, ever since the seminal Dijkstra’s THE multiprogramming system in early 60s. But the reason for this obsession is not entirely obvious. While the OS is commonly...

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The Looming Network Wall in Data-Intensive Computing

Leave your OS at home: the rise of library operating systems

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