DATE: Thursday , May 8, 2003
TIME: Noon - 1 pm
PLACE: Hamerschlag Hall D-210
SPEAKER:
Craig Soules
Carnegie Mellon University
TITLE:
System Support for Online Reconfiguration
ABSTRACT:
Online reconfiguration provides a way to extend and replace active operating
system components. This provides administrators, developers, applications,
and the system itself with a way to update code, adapt to changing workloads,
pinpoint performance problems, and perform a variety of other tasks while
the system is running. With generic support for interposition and hot-swapping,
a system allows active components to be wrapped with additional functionality
or replaced with different implementations that have the same interfaces.
This talk describes support for online reconfiguration in the K42 operating
system and our initial experiences using it.
BIO:
Craig Soules is a 3rd year graduate student in Computer Science who did
this work in conjunction with the K42 research group at IBM. During his
time working with the K42 group, he has become a true believer in both
micro-kernels and application extentions. This talk
will (hopefully) be in fulfillment of his speaking requirement.
SDI / LCS Seminar Questions?
Karen Lindenfelser, 86716, or visit www.pdl.cmu.edu/SDI/