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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. | 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. | ||
:<span id="Foot2><sup>2</sup>J. Kuskin, D. Ofelt, M. Heinrich, J. Heinlein, R. Simoni, K. Gharachorloo, J. Chapin, D. Nakahira, J. Baxter, M. Horowitz, A. Gupta, M. Rosenblum, and J. Hennessy. The Stanford FLASH multiprocessor. In Proc. of the 21st ISCA, pages 302–313,1994.</span> | |||
:<span id="Foot3"><sup>3</sup>P. E. McKenney, D. Sarma, A. Arcangeli, A. Kleen, O. Krieger, and R. Russell. Read-copy-update. In Proceedings of the Linux Symposium 2002, pages 338-367, Ottawa Ontario, June 2002</span> | |||
: <span id="Foot4"><sup>4</sup>C. Yan, Y. Chen, and S. Yuanchun. OSMark: A benchmark suite for understanding parallel scalability of operating systems on large scale multi-cores. In 2009 2nd International Conference on Computer Science and Information Technology, pages 313–317, 2009</span> | |||
Revision as of 17:34, 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
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.
- 2J. Kuskin, D. Ofelt, M. Heinrich, J. Heinlein, R. Simoni, K. Gharachorloo, J. Chapin, D. Nakahira, J. Baxter, M. Horowitz, A. Gupta, M. Rosenblum, and J. Hennessy. The Stanford FLASH multiprocessor. In Proc. of the 21st ISCA, pages 302–313,1994.
- 3P. E. McKenney, D. Sarma, A. Arcangeli, A. Kleen, O. Krieger, and R. Russell. Read-copy-update. In Proceedings of the Linux Symposium 2002, pages 338-367, Ottawa Ontario, June 2002
- 4C. Yan, Y. Chen, and S. Yuanchun. OSMark: A benchmark suite for understanding parallel scalability of operating systems on large scale multi-cores. In 2009 2nd International Conference on Computer Science and Information Technology, pages 313–317, 2009