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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

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Research problem

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Contribution

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Critique

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References

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-'''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
-'''Affiliations:''' 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]
-'''Paper:''' [http://www.usenix.org/events/osdi10/tech/full_papers/Boyd-Wickizer.pdf An Analysis of Linux Scalability to Many Cores]
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