Architectural considerations for a new generation of protocols
SIGCOMM '90 Proceedings of the ACM symposium on Communications architectures & protocols
The X-Kernel: An Architecture for Implementing Network Protocols
IEEE Transactions on Software Engineering
A dynamic network architecture
ACM Transactions on Computer Systems (TOCS)
Active messages: a mechanism for integrated communication and computation
ISCA '92 Proceedings of the 19th annual international symposium on Computer architecture
Fbufs: a high-bandwidth cross-domain transfer facility
SOSP '93 Proceedings of the fourteenth ACM symposium on Operating systems principles
Increasing network throughput by integrating protocol layers
IEEE/ACM Transactions on Networking (TON)
Experiences with a high-speed network adaptor: a software perspective
SIGCOMM '94 Proceedings of the conference on Communications architectures, protocols and applications
User-space protocols deliver high performance to applications on a low-cost Gb/s LAN
SIGCOMM '94 Proceedings of the conference on Communications architectures, protocols and applications
Optimistic active messages: a mechanism for scheduling communication with computation
PPOPP '95 Proceedings of the fifth ACM SIGPLAN symposium on Principles and practice of parallel programming
U-Net: a user-level network interface for parallel and distributed computing
SOSP '95 Proceedings of the fifteenth ACM symposium on Operating systems principles
Exokernel: an operating system architecture for application-level resource management
SOSP '95 Proceedings of the fifteenth ACM symposium on Operating systems principles
Extensibility safety and performance in the SPIN operating system
SOSP '95 Proceedings of the fifteenth ACM symposium on Operating systems principles
SMART: a processor scheduler for multimedia applications
SOSP '95 Proceedings of the fifteenth ACM symposium on Operating systems principles
Making paths explicit in the Scout operating system
OSDI '96 Proceedings of the second USENIX symposium on Operating systems design and implementation
Dealing with disaster: surviving misbehaved kernel extensions
OSDI '96 Proceedings of the second USENIX symposium on Operating systems design and implementation
Lazy receiver processing (LRP): a network subsystem architecture for server systems
OSDI '96 Proceedings of the second USENIX symposium on Operating systems design and implementation
Effects of buffering semantics on I/O performance
OSDI '96 Proceedings of the second USENIX symposium on Operating systems design and implementation
ASHs: Application-specific handlers for high-performance messaging
Conference proceedings on Applications, technologies, architectures, and protocols for computer communications
DPF: fast, flexible message demultiplexing using dynamic code generation
Conference proceedings on Applications, technologies, architectures, and protocols for computer communications
Computer networks (3rd ed.)
Application performance and flexibility on exokernel systems
Proceedings of the sixteenth ACM symposium on Operating systems principles
Router plugins: a software architecture for next generation routers
Proceedings of the ACM SIGCOMM '98 conference on Applications, technologies, architectures, and protocols for computer communication
C and tcc: a language and compiler for dynamic code generation
ACM Transactions on Programming Languages and Systems (TOPLAS)
Proceedings of the seventeenth ACM symposium on Operating systems principles
IO-Lite: a unified I/O buffering and caching system
ACM Transactions on Computer Systems (TOCS)
Soft timers: efficient microsecond software timer support for network processing
ACM Transactions on Computer Systems (TOCS)
Lightweight kernel/user communication for real-time and multimedia applications
NOSSDAV '01 Proceedings of the 11th international workshop on Network and operating systems support for digital audio and video
The operating system kernel as a secure programmable machine
EW 6 Proceedings of the 6th workshop on ACM SIGOPS European workshop: Matching operating systems to application needs
Fast and flexible application-level networking on exokernel systems
ACM Transactions on Computer Systems (TOCS)
Chromium: a stream-processing framework for interactive rendering on clusters
Proceedings of the 29th annual conference on Computer graphics and interactive techniques
Active Storage for Large-Scale Data Mining and Multimedia
VLDB '98 Proceedings of the 24rd International Conference on Very Large Data Bases
A Study of the Relative Costs of Network Security Protocols
Proceedings of the FREENIX Track: 2002 USENIX Annual Technical Conference
Protocol Implementation in a Vertically Structured Operating System
LCN '97 Proceedings of the 22nd Annual IEEE Conference on Local Computer Networks
Taming the IXP network processor
PLDI '03 Proceedings of the ACM SIGPLAN 2003 conference on Programming language design and implementation
Exterminate all operating system abstractions
HOTOS '95 Proceedings of the Fifth Workshop on Hot Topics in Operating Systems (HotOS-V)
Efficient Layering for High Speed Communication: Fast Messages 2.x
HPDC '98 Proceedings of the 7th IEEE International Symposium on High Performance Distributed Computing
Media Processing Applications on the Imagine Stream Processor
ICCD '02 Proceedings of the 2002 IEEE International Conference on Computer Design: VLSI in Computers and Processors (ICCD'02)
A Stream Processor Development Platform
ICCD '02 Proceedings of the 2002 IEEE International Conference on Computer Design: VLSI in Computers and Processors (ICCD'02)
High-performance application-specific networking
High-performance application-specific networking
The exokernel operating system architecture
The exokernel operating system architecture
A bandwidth-efficient architecture for a streaming media processor
A bandwidth-efficient architecture for a streaming media processor
Improving DES coprocessor throughput for short operations
SSYM'01 Proceedings of the 10th conference on USENIX Security Symposium - Volume 10
Dynamic function placement for data-intensive cluster computing
ATEC '00 Proceedings of the annual conference on USENIX Annual Technical Conference
Scalable kernel performance for internet servers under realistic loads
ATEC '98 Proceedings of the annual conference on USENIX Annual Technical Conference
High-performance local area communication with fast sockets
ATEC '97 Proceedings of the annual conference on USENIX Annual Technical Conference
Integrated CPU and network-I/O QoS management in an endsystem
Computer Communications
The design and implementation of an operating system to support distributed multimedia applications
IEEE Journal on Selected Areas in Communications
Evaluation of compound system calls in the Linux kernel
ACM SIGOPS Operating Systems Review
HotOS'13 Proceedings of the 14th USENIX conference on Hot Topics in Operating Systems
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The design of modern operating systems is based around the concept of memory as a cache for data that flows between applications, storage, and I/O devices. With the increasing disparity between I/O bandwidth and CPU performance, this architecture exposes the processor and memory subsystems as the bottlenecks to system performance. Furthermore, this design does not easily lend itself to exploitation of new capabilities in peripheral devices, such as programmable network cards or special-purpose hardware accelerators, capable of card-to-card data transfers.We propose a new operating system architecture that removes the memory and CPU from the data path. The role of the operating system becomes that of data-flow management, while applications operate purely at the signaling level. This design parallels the evolution of modern network routers, and has the potential to enable high-performance I/O for end-systems, as well as fully exploit recent trends in programmability of peripheral (I/O) devices.