Difference engine: Harnessing memory redundancy in virtual machines

Communications of the ACM

Volumn 53, Issue 10, 2010, Pages 85-93

  Gupta, Diwaker ^a   Lee, Sangmin ^a   Vrable, Michael ^a   Savage, Stefan ^a   Snoeren, Alex C ^a   Varghese, George ^a   Voelker, Geoffrey M ^a   Vahdat, Amin ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CAPITAL OUTLAY; COMMODITY OPERATING SYSTEMS; CONTENT-BASED; DIFFERENCE ENGINES; HARDWARE RESOURCES; HIGHER-DEGREE; MAIN MEMORY; MEMORY COMPRESSION; MEMORY FOOTPRINT; MEMORY REDUNDANCY; MIGRATION POLICY; OPERATING SYSTEMS; PAGE SHARING; POPULAR PLATFORM; STATISTICAL MULTIPLEXING; VIRTUAL MACHINE MONITORS; VIRTUAL MACHINES;

COMPUTER SIMULATION; MULTIPLEXING; STANDARDIZATION;

COMPUTER OPERATING SYSTEMS;

EID: 77957958461     PISSN: 00010782     EISSN: 15577317     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1145/1831407.1831429     Document Type: Article

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