Princeton S* Network Systems

Today, I am going to talk about a system called SSDAlloc, a hybrid RAM/SSD memory manager, that I have been working on over the past year and a half or so, jointly with my adviser Vivek Pai. The post is more of a research report briefing. I’ll first talk about what motivated us to explore this area and then delve into the technical jargon.

I will start with describing what motivated us to use SSD as program memory and then I will describe why using SSD as a swap space is a bad idea. After that, I will describe … Continue Reading

[Today we'll be having a guest post by Anirudh Badam, a PhD student in the larger Network Systems Group at Princeton, related to systems research for developing regions.  The work he'll be talking about was recently named one of Technology Review's Top 10 Emerging Technologies for 2009.  -- Mike]

To provide Internet connectivity in the developing world is a daunting task, with problems pertaining to a high cost of bandwidth, ill-provisioned equipment and power, scarcity of on-site expertise, and adverse environmental conditions. Most common way to offset bandwidth cost/consumption is to deploy high-performance web proxy … Continue Reading