COMP 3000 Essay 2 2010 Question 6

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Paper

Effective Data-Race Detection for the Kernel

Paper: http://www.usenix.org/events/osdi10/tech/full_papers/Erickson.pdf

Video: http://homeostasis.scs.carleton.ca/osdi/video/erickson.mp4

Authors: John Erickson, Madanlal Musuvathi, Sebastian Burckhardt, Kirk Olynyk from Microsoft Research

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

[1] Erickson, Musuvathi, Burchhardt, Olynyk , Effective Data-Race Detection for the Kernel, Microsoft Research, 2010.PDF

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