COMP 3000 Essay 2 2010

Directions

You are to write a document that explains the key ideas of your assigned paper. Your articles should have the following format:

• Paper: the paper's title, authors, and their affiliations. Include a link to the paper and any particularly helpful supplementary information.
• Background Concepts:
• Research problem:
• Contribution:
• Critique:

Papers

1. An Analysis of Linux Scalability to Many Cores
2. Trust and Protection in the Illinois Browser Operating System
3. FlexSC: Flexible System Call Scheduling with Exception-Less System Calls
4. Accountable Virtual Machines
5. Bypassing Races in Live Applications with Execution Filters
6. Effective Data-Race Detection for the Kernel
7. Ad Hoc Synchronization Considered Harmful
8. TaintDroid: An Information-Flow Tracking System for Realtime Privacy Monitoring on Smartphones
9. The Turtles Project: Design and Implementation of Nested Virtualization
10. mClock: Handling Throughput Variability for Hypervisor IO Scheduling
11. Virtualize Everything but Time