EbbRT: a framework for building per-application library operating systems

Efficient use of high speed hardware requires operating system components be customized to the application work- load. Our general purpose operating systems are ill-suited for this task. We present EbbRT, a framework for constructing per-application library operating systems for cloud applications. The primary objective of EbbRT is to enable high-performance in a tractable and maintainable fashion. This paper describes the design and implementation of EbbRT, and evaluates its ability to improve the performance of common cloud applications. The evaluation of the EbbRT prototype demonstrates memcached, run within a VM, can outperform memcached run on an unvirtualized Linux. The prototype evaluation also demonstrates an 14% performance improvement of a V8 JavaScript engine benchmark, and a node.js webserver that achieves a 50% reduction in 99th percentile latency compared to it run on Linux

Challenges Using Linux as a Real-Time Operating System

Human-in-the-loop (HITL) simulation groups at NASA and the Air Force Research Lab have been using Linux as a real-time operating system (RTOS) for over a decade. More recently, SpaceX has revealed that it is using Linux as an RTOS for its Falcon launch vehicles and Dragon capsules. As Linux makes its way from ground facilities to flight critical systems, it is necessary to recognize that the real-time capabilities in Linux are cobbled onto a kernel architecture designed for general purpose computing. The Linux kernel contain numerous design decisions that favor throughput over determinism and latency. These decisions often require workarounds in the application or customization of the kernel to restore a high probability that Linux will achieve deadlines

Debian: A Linux based operating system for all purposes

Debian is a Linux based operating system suitable for all types of computing purposes.Debian: A Linux based operating system for all purposes. it has not received much attention from the user community due to the lack of promotion. Ubuntu Linux derived from Debian project received much acceptance from all range of users. But Debian Linux opens up more space for customization and innovation for experts and users. It follows a strict release schedule and ensures a stable distribution of Linux. The paper is a general introduction to the package

Hard real-time performances in multiprocessor-embedded systems using ASMP-Linux

Multiprocessor systems, especially those based on multicore or multithreaded processors, and new operating system architectures can satisfy the ever increasing computational requirements of embedded systems.ASMP-LINUX is a modified, high responsiveness, open-source hard real-time operating system for multiprocessorsystems capable of providing high real-time performance while maintaining the code simple and not impacting on theperformances of the rest of the system. Moreover, ASMP-LINUX does not require code changing or application recompiling/relinking.In order to assess the performances of ASMP-LINUX, benchmarks have been performed on several hardware platformsand configurations

Micro-CernVM: Slashing the Cost of Building and Deploying Virtual Machines

The traditional virtual machine building and and deployment process is centered around the virtual machine hard disk image. The packages comprising the VM operating system are carefully selected, hard disk images are built for a variety of different hypervisors, and images have to be distributed and decompressed in order to instantiate a virtual machine. Within the HEP community, the CernVM File System has been established in order to decouple the distribution from the experiment software from the building and distribution of the VM hard disk images. We show how to get rid of such pre-built hard disk images altogether. Due to the high requirements on POSIX compliance imposed by HEP application software, CernVM-FS can also be used to host and boot a Linux operating system. This allows the use of a tiny bootable CD image that comprises only a Linux kernel while the rest of the operating system is provided on demand by CernVM-FS. This approach speeds up the initial instantiation time and reduces virtual machine image sizes by an order of magnitude. Furthermore, security updates can be distributed instantaneously through CernVM-FS. By leveraging the fact that CernVM-FS is a versioning file system, a historic analysis environment can be easily re-spawned by selecting the corresponding CernVM-FS file system snapshot.Comment: Conference paper at the 2013 Computing in High Energy Physics (CHEP) Conference, Amsterda

Advanced filtering operation in the Linux operating system

Tato práce je zaměřená na problematiku filtrace síťového provozu a zabezpečení sítě v prostředí operačního systému Linux. Přibližuje postup sestavení jednoduchého paketového firewallu využitím nástroje netfilter a ověřuje jeho efektivitu. Dále prověřuje možnosti identifikace uživatelů v peer-to-peer sítích pomocí L7-filtru. Obsahuje návrh systému, který detekuje provoz v nejpoužívanějších P2P sítích. Funkce tohoto systému je prověřena simulací příslušného P2P provozu v lokální síti.This thesis is oriented on the subject of advanced filtering operations and network security under Linux operating system. It explains the procedure of creating a simple packet filtering firewall using the netfilter framework and verifies its efectivity. It further examines the options of user identification in peer-to-peer networks using L7-filtering. It contains design of a system that detects traffic in the most used P2P networks. This system’s function is attested by simulating a P2P traffic inside the local network.

Preparing a scientific manuscript in Linux: Today's possibilities and limitations

<p>Abstract</p> <p>Background</p> <p>Increasing number of scientists are enthusiastic about using free, open source software for their research purposes. Authors' specific goal was to examine whether a Linux-based operating system with open source software packages would allow to prepare a submission-ready scientific manuscript without the need to use the proprietary software.</p> <p>Findings</p> <p>Preparation and editing of scientific manuscripts is possible using Linux and open source software. This letter to the editor describes key steps for preparation of a publication-ready scientific manuscript in a Linux-based operating system, as well as discusses the necessary software components. This manuscript was created using Linux and open source programs for Linux.</p