Bridging the gap between software and hardware techniques for I/O virtualization

Proceedings of the 2008 USENIX Annual Technical Conference, USENIX 2008

Volumn , Issue , 2008, Pages 29-42

  Santos, Jose Renato ^a   Turner, Yoshio ^a   Janakiraman, G ^a   Pratt, Ian ^b  

^a HEWLETT PACKARD LABORATORIES   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CAMBRIDGE   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

VIRTUAL REALITY;

10-GIGABIT ETHERNET; ATTRACTIVE SOLUTIONS; EXECUTION COSTS; EXECUTION ENVIRONMENTS; HIGH-BANDWIDTH LINKS; PERFORMANCE GAPS; PERFORMANCE PROBLEMS; SOFTWARE AND HARDWARES;

VIRTUALIZATION;

EID: 79952386999     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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