Cyber-physical systems consist of computers that sense and control a rapidly changing physical environment. Examples of such systems include autonomous transportation (self-driving cars), traffic ...

File systems have been around for as long as computers have been invented. Over the past 40 years, what used to be a little invention on a thinking machine has grown into an enormous industry with ...

It's the day after Independence Day in the US, and much of our staff is just returning to their preferred work machines. If this was 1997 instead of 2018, that would mean booting up BeOS for some. The ...

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In the Linux environment, the file system acts as a backbone, orchestrating the systematic storage and retrieval of data. It is a hierarchical structure that outlines how data is organized, stored, ...

Last month we began discussing typical file systems, starting first with local and shared file systems, then moving into the network file system. The network file system (also known as a proxy file ...

A fundamental of file systems since their inception has been their locking mechanisms. These exist so that different users and applications working on the same file (or region of a file) ...

The purpose of the Systems Preliminary Exam is to give students an opportunity to demonstrate their ability to analyze, evaluate, and present a pre-existing body of specific research in the area of ...