Note - Asaf Bartov's talk about software for the Ben Yehuda project ( http://benyehuda.org) was postponed by two weeks. ------- This Monday, June 7th at 18:30, Haifux will gather to hear Orna Agmon Ben-Yehuda discuss Gupta et al.'s paper (and work) on Difference Engine.
Abstract Difference Engine is an extension to Xen, which is an open-source hypervisor. The paper, titled "Difference Engine: Harnessing Memory Redundancy in Virtual Machines", by Diwaker Gupta, Sangmin Lee,Michael Vrable, Stefan Savage, Alex C. Snoeren, George Varghese, Geoffrey M. Voelker, and Amin Vahdat, won a best paper award in OSDI'08. I will not present the conference talk (which is just a taste, and for which slides are unavailable) but the full paper, including my comments on it. The paper is at: http://www.usenix.org/events/osdi08/tech/full_papers/gupta/gupta.pdf. The mp3 of the talk given in the conference is at: http://www.usenix.org/media/events/osdi08/tech/mp3s/gupta.mp3. ============================== Future talks include: 21/06/10 The Ben Yehuda Project Software - Asaf Bartov 05/07/10 GarlicSim: An experimental tool for computer simulations - Ram Rachum ...GAPS for YOU to fill... 13/09/10 Secure File Systems: Orr Dunkelman (The gap between the lectures is intended for YOU to lecture about something interesting!) =================================== We meet in Taub building, room 6. For instructions see: http://www.haifux.org/where.html Attendance is free, and you are all invited! -- Orna Agmon Ben-Yehuda. http://ladypine.org -- Orna Agmon Ben-Yehuda. http://ladypine.org
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