COMP 3000 Assignment 2: Difference between revisions

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For each of the following papers, write a brief summary (one paragraph) explaining why the paper is (or might be) interesting. If you can't understand what the paper is about, explain what you do and don't understand.

Note that all of the following papers were presented at OSDI 2010. There are video presentations available. Feel free to refer to these or other supplementary materials.

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-==Preliminary Questions (assignment is not final!)==
+For each of the following papers, write a brief summary (one paragraph) explaining why the paper is (or might be) interesting.  If you can't understand what the paper is about, explain what you do and don't understand.
+Note that all of the following papers were presented at [http://www.usenix.org/events/osdi10/tech/  OSDI 2010].  There are video presentations available.  Feel free to refer to these or other supplementary materials.
+# [http://www.usenix.org/events/osdi10/tech/full_papers/Boyd-Wickizer.pdf An Analysis of Linux Scalability to Many Cores]
+#[http://www.usenix.org/events/osdi10/tech/full_papers/Tang.pdf Trust and Protection in the Illinois Browser Operating System]
+#[http://www.usenix.org/events/osdi10/tech/full_papers/Soares.pdf FlexSC: Flexible System Call Scheduling with Exception-Less System Calls]
+#[http://www.usenix.org/events/osdi10/tech/full_papers/Haeberlen.pdf Accountable Virtual Machines]
+#[http://www.usenix.org/events/osdi10/tech/full_papers/Wu.pdf Bypassing Races in Live Applications with Execution Filters]
+#[http://www.usenix.org/events/osdi10/tech/full_papers/Erickson.pdf Effective Data-Race Detection for the Kernel]
+#[http://www.usenix.org/events/osdi10/tech/full_papers/Xiong.pdf Ad Hoc Synchronization Considered Harmful]
+#[http://www.usenix.org/events/osdi10/tech/full_papers/Enck.pdf TaintDroid: An Information-Flow Tracking System for Realtime Privacy Monitoring on Smartphones]
+#[http://www.usenix.org/events/osdi10/tech/full_papers/Ben-Yehuda.pdf The Turtles Project: Design and Implementation of Nested Virtualization]
+#[http://www.usenix.org/events/osdi10/tech/full_papers/Gulati.pdf mClock: Handling Throughput Variability for Hypervisor IO Scheduling]
+#[http://www.usenix.org/events/osdi10/tech/full_papers/Broomhead.pdf Virtualize Everything but Time]