Communications of the ACM
Research Archive
The Research archive provides access to all Research articles published in past issues of Communications of the ACM.
May 2022
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Technical Perspective: 'What Is the Ideal Operating System?'
The authors of "Set the Configuration for the Heart of the OS" put a fresh view on the practicability of automatic kernel debloating.
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Technical Perspective: Balancing At All Loads
"Rateless Codes for Near-Perfect Load Balancing in Distributed Matrix-Vector Multiplication" addresses the problem of selecting code rates to optimize system performance by making the codes rateless.
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Rateless Codes for Near-Perfect Load Balancing in Distributed Matrix-Vector Multiplication
We propose a rateless fountain coding strategy and prove that its latency is asymptotically equal to ideal load balancing, and it performs asymptotically zero redundant computations.
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Set the Configuration for the Heart of the OS: On the Practicality of Operating System Kernel Debloating
This paper presents a study on the practicality of operating system kernel debloating, that is, reducing kernel code that is not needed by the target applications.