684 research outputs found
A Generic Checkpoint-Restart Mechanism for Virtual Machines
It is common today to deploy complex software inside a virtual machine (VM).
Snapshots provide rapid deployment, migration between hosts, dependability
(fault tolerance), and security (insulating a guest VM from the host). Yet, for
each virtual machine, the code for snapshots is laboriously developed on a
per-VM basis. This work demonstrates a generic checkpoint-restart mechanism for
virtual machines. The mechanism is based on a plugin on top of an unmodified
user-space checkpoint-restart package, DMTCP. Checkpoint-restart is
demonstrated for three virtual machines: Lguest, user-space QEMU, and KVM/QEMU.
The plugins for Lguest and KVM/QEMU require just 200 lines of code. The Lguest
kernel driver API is augmented by 40 lines of code. DMTCP checkpoints
user-space QEMU without any new code. KVM/QEMU, user-space QEMU, and DMTCP need
no modification. The design benefits from other DMTCP features and plugins.
Experiments demonstrate checkpoint and restart in 0.2 seconds using forked
checkpointing, mmap-based fast-restart, and incremental Btrfs-based snapshots
Fairly Allocating Goods in Parallel
We initiate the study of parallel algorithms for fairly allocating
indivisible goods among agents with additive preferences. We give fast parallel
algorithms for various fundamental problems, such as finding a Pareto Optimal
and EF1 allocation under restricted additive valuations, finding an EF1
allocation for up to three agents, and finding an envy-free allocation with
subsidies. On the flip side, we show that fast parallel algorithms are unlikely
to exist (formally, -hard) for the problem of computing Round-Robin EF1
allocations
Analytical Stellar Models of Neutron Stars in Teleparallel Gravity
In this paper, we developed three analytical models and obtained a new class
of solutions describing compact stellar structures using the theory of
teleparallel gravity. We consider the general anisotropic nature of stellar
configurations and solve teleparallel gravity equations. In order to thoroughly
analyze the various parameters of the stars, we developed three models by
choosing various physically acceptable forms of metric potential
and radial pressure . We also analyze the impact of teleparallel
gravity's parameters and on the description of the
stellar structures. We calculated model parameters such that models describing
various observed neutron stars obey all physical conditions to be potentially
stable and causal. By analyzing the impact of various parameters of
teleparallel gravity on the description of anisotropic stellar structures, we
found that three models developed in this paper can describe anisotropic
neutron stars ranging from low density to high density. Finally, we obtain a
quadratic Equation of State for each model describing various neutron stars,
which can be utilized to find compositions of the stellar structures. It is
very useful to find models that can exhibit quadratic EOS, since material
compositions of real neutron stars and strange stars are found to exhibit
quadratic EOS by various authors. Non linear model gives high
deviation of EOS from quadratic behaviour, thus, in this paper we work with
linear function by using diagonal tetrad to model realistic compact
stars.Comment: made equations more readable and implemented some changes suggested
by reviewer
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