USENIX tries to ensure a consistent style of proceeding. Layout sheets are not required, but authors are required to adhere to the following format parameters. Papers should be done in a readable font ...

Many applications demand availability. Unfortunately, software failures greatly reduce system availability. Previous approaches for surviving software failures suffer from several limitations, ...

As computers permeate all aspects of our lives, a wide range of computer systems must achieve high dependability, including availability, reliability, and security. Unfortunately, few current computer ...

Improper evaluation of systems papers may result in the loss or delay in publication of possibly important research. This paper posits that systems research papers may be evaluated in one or more of ...

James C. Corbett, Jeffrey Dean, Michael Epstein, Andrew Fikes, Christopher Frost, JJ Furman, Sanjay Ghemawat, Andrey Gubarev, Christopher Heiser, Peter Hochschild ...

NT is a great file and print server. It also makes a good web, mail, and SQL server. But how does it behave when you attach several hundred disks to a single NT node and run a database application ...

The BSD dump utility has been available in various forms for nearly twenty years. In that time, the format has remained fairly constant, and the utility has been ported to platforms ranging from ...