The Alta Operating System

March 9, 1999

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The Alta Operating System
Alta
Research Goals
Motivation: Servlet Engine
Motivation
Approach
Fluke Background
Nested Process Model
Mapping an OS into Java
Goals for Alta
Design of Alta
Design of Alta
Design of Alta
Per-process Typespaces
Per-process Typespaces
Design of Alta
Inter-process Sharing
Inter-process Type Checking
Design of Alta
Sharing & Resource Control
User-level Shared Objects
Results & Evaluation
Platform
Micro-benchmarks
Alta vs. Fluke: Structure
Alta vs. Fluke: Performance
Performance Evaluation
Related Work: Java
Related Work: OS
Future Work
Contributions

Patrick Tullmann

<tullmann@cs.utah.edu>

 

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