Server Operating Systems (1996)
| Venue: | In SIGOPS European Workshop |
| Citations: | 53 - 15 self |
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@INPROCEEDINGS{Kaashoek96serveroperating,
author = {M. Frans Kaashoek and Dawson R. Engler and Gregory R. Ganger and Deborah A. Wallach},
title = {Server Operating Systems},
booktitle = {In SIGOPS European Workshop},
year = {1996},
pages = {141--148}
}
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Abstract
We introduce server operating systems, which are sets of abstractions and runtime support for specialized, highperformance server applications. We have designed and are implementing a prototype server OS with support for aggressive specialization, direct device-to-device access, an event-driven organization, and dynamic compiler-assisted ILP. Using this server OS, we have constructed an HTTP server that outperforms servers running on a conventional OS by more than an order of magnitude and that can safely timeshare the hardware platform with other applications. 1 Introduction Servers, the foundations of the client/server model of computing, are rapidly becoming more critical. If we are to realize the promise of global information access, widely distributed computing and even high-performance local area computing, system implementors must construct a variety of server applications (whether centralized or not) that can support large numbers of active clients. Ideally, the development an...
