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=An Analysis of Linux Scalability to Many Cores= | =An Analysis of Linux Scalability to Many Cores= | ||
'''Authors:''' Silas Boyd-Wickizer, Austin T. Clements, Yandong Mao, Aleksey Pesterev, M. Frans Kaashoek, Robert Morris and Nickolai Zeldovich. | '''Authors:''' Silas Boyd-Wickizer, Austin T. Clements, Yandong Mao, Aleksey Pesterev, M. Frans Kaashoek, Robert Morris and Nickolai Zeldovich. | ||
'''Affiliates:'''MIT CSAIL | '''Affiliates:'''MIT CSAIL | ||
'''Link to Paper:''' [http://www.usenix.org/events/osdi10/tech/full_papers/Boyd-Wickizer.pdf An Analysis of Linux Scalability to Many Cores] | '''Link to Paper:''' [http://www.usenix.org/events/osdi10/tech/full_papers/Boyd-Wickizer.pdf An Analysis of Linux Scalability to Many Cores] | ||
Revision as of 17:11, 2 December 2010
An Analysis of Linux Scalability to Many Cores
Authors: Silas Boyd-Wickizer, Austin T. Clements, Yandong Mao, Aleksey Pesterev, M. Frans Kaashoek, Robert Morris and Nickolai Zeldovich.
Affiliates:MIT CSAIL
Link to Paper: An Analysis of Linux Scalability to Many Cores
Background Concepts
Explain briefly the background concepts and ideas that your fellow classmates will need to know first in order to understand your assigned paper.
Research problem
What is the research problem being addressed by the paper? How does this problem relate to past related work?
Contribution
What are the research contribution(s) of this work? Specifically, what are the key research results, and what do they mean? (What was implemented? Why is it any better than what came before?)
Critique
What is good and not-so-good about this paper? You may discuss both the style and content; be sure to ground your discussion with specific references. Simple assertions that something is good or bad is not enough - you must explain why.
References
You will almost certainly have to refer to other resources; please cite these resources in the style of citation of the papers assigned (inlined numbered references). Place your bibliographic entries in this section.