Right-weight kernels: An off-the-shelf alternative to custom Light-Weight Kernels

Operating Systems Review (ACM)

Volumn 40, Issue 2, 2006, Pages 22-28

  Minnich, Ronald G ^e   Sottile, Matthew J ^a   Choi, Sung Eun ^b   Hendriks, Erik ^c   McKie, Jim ^d  

^a LOS ALAMOS NATIONAL LABORATORY   (United States)

^b CRAY INC   (United States)

^c GOOGLE INC   (United States)

^d LUCENT TECHNOLOGIES   (United States)

^e NONE

Author keywords

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Indexed keywords

CUSTOM LIGHT WEIGHT OPERATING SYSTEMS; HIGH PERFORMANCE COMPUTING; LIGHT-WEIGHT KERNELS;

COMPUTATION THEORY; COMPUTER APPLICATIONS; COMPUTER HARDWARE; COMPUTER SOFTWARE;

COMPUTER OPERATING SYSTEMS;

EID: 33646390725     PISSN: 01635980     EISSN: 01635980     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1145/1131322.1131331     Document Type: Article

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