James C. Corbett, Jeffrey Dean, Michael Epstein, Andrew Fikes, Christopher Frost, JJ Furman, Sanjay Ghemawat, Andrey Gubarev, Christopher Heiser, Peter Hochschild ...

Many applications demand availability. Unfortunately, software failures greatly reduce system availability. Previous approaches for surviving software failures suffer from several limitations, ...

NT is a great file and print server. It also makes a good web, mail, and SQL server. But how does it behave when you attach several hundred disks to a single NT node and run a database application ...

The BSD dump utility has been available in various forms for nearly twenty years. In that time, the format has remained fairly constant, and the utility has been ported to platforms ranging from ...

Daniel Lowe Wheeler, Dropbox Inc.

Traditionally, uniprocessors have not been able to saturate the network with the introduction of each new Ethernet bandwidth generation, but exponential gains in uniprocessor performance have always ...

To compare connection parallelism in the same framework as message parallelism, FreeBSD 7 was modified to support two variants of connection-based parallelism (ConnP) that differ in how they serialize ...

A storage server for continuous media is usually based on disk arrays like RAID. However, this kind of architecture does not provide any flexibility and scalability which are essential for storage ...

As network bandwidths continue to increase at an exponential pace, the performance of modern network stacks must keep pace in order to efficiently utilize that bandwidth. In the past, exponential ...

The high cost of IT operations has led to an intense focus on the automation of processes for IT service delivery. We take the heretical position that automation does not necessarily reduce the cost ...

Network performance is increasingly important in all types of modern computer systems. Furthermore, architectural trends are pushing future microprocessors away from uniprocessor designs and toward ...

Figure: High-level view of a DDS: a DDS is a self-managing, cluster-based data repository. All service instances (S) in the cluster see the same consistent image of the DDS; as a result, any WAN ...