A. Cox

Publications
Influence

ThreadMarks: Shared Memory Computing on Networks of Workstations

C. Amza, A. Cox, +5 authors W. Zwaenepoel
Computer Science
Computer
1 February 1996

In this paper, we discuss our experience with parallel computing on networks of workstations using the TreadMarks distributed shared memory (DSM) system. Expand

TreadMarks: Distributed Shared Memory on Standard Workstations and Operating Systems

P. Keleher, A. Cox, S. Dwarkadas, W. Zwaenepoel
Computer Science
USENIX Winter
17 January 1994

This paper presents a performance evaluation of TreadMarks running on Ultrix using DECstation5000/240's that are connected by a 100-Mbps switch-based ATM LAN and a 10-Mbps Ethernet. Expand

Lazy release consistency for software distributed shared memory

P. Keleher, A. Cox, W. Zwaenepoel
Computer Science
ISCA '92
1 May 1992

Lazy release consistency is a new algorithm for implementing release consistency that lazily pulls modifications across the interconnect only when necessary. Expand

Specification and implementation of dynamic Web site benchmarks

C. Amza, A. Chanda, +6 authors J. Marguerite
Computer Science
IEEE International Workshop on Workload…
2002

We propose three benchmarks for evaluating the performance of dynamic content Web sites with dynamic content. Expand

The Hadoop distributed filesystem: Balancing portability and performance

Jeffrey Shafer, S. Rixner, A. Cox
Computer Science
IEEE International Symposium on Performance…
28 March 2010

Hadoop is a popular open-source implementation of MapReduce for the analysis of large datasets. Expand

Maestro: A System for Scalable OpenFlow Control

Zheng Cai, A. Cox, T. Ng
Computer Science
4 December 2010

Maestro is the first OpenFlow controller system that exploits parallelism to achieve near linear performance scalability on multi-core processors. Expand

Scheduling I/O in virtual machine monitors

D. Ongaro, A. Cox, S. Rixner
Computer Science
VEE '08
5 March 2008

This paper explores the relationship between domain scheduling in avirtual machine monitor (VMM) and I/O performance using multiple guest domains concurrently running different types of applications. Expand

Optimizing network virtualization in Xen

A. Menon, A. Cox, W. Zwaenepoel
Computer Science
30 May 2006

In this paper, we propose and evaluate three techniques for optimizing network performance in the Xen virtualized environment. Expand

Translation caching: skip, don't walk (the page table)

Thomas W. Barr, A. Cox, S. Rixner
Computer Science
ISCA
19 June 2010

This paper explores the design space of MMU caches that accelerate virtual-to-physical address translation in processor architectures, such as x86-64, that use a radix tree page table. Expand

Adaptive cache coherency for detecting migratory shared data

A. Cox, R. Fowler
Computer Science
ISCA '93
1 May 1993

We describe a family of adaptive cache coherency protocols that dynamically identify migratory shared data in order to reduce the cost of moving them. Expand

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