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Copy-on-write

Copy-On-Write is a memory management optimization technique in virtual memory systems where shared memory pages are duplicated only when a process attempts to modify them, thereby deferring costly copying operations until necessary.

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2017–2026

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File system design for an NFS file server appliance

Dave Hitz, James Y. Lau, Michael A. Malcolm · 1994 · 472 citations

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Optimizing the migration of virtual computers

Constantine Sapuntzakis, Ramesh Chandra, Ben Pfaff et al. · ACM SIGOPS Operating Systems Review · 2002 · 411 citations

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The performance of consistent checkpointing

E. N. Mootaz Elnozahy, David B. Johnson, Willy Zwaenepoel · 2003 · 355 citations

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Kiln

Jishen Zhao, Sheng Li, Doe Hyun Yoon et al. · 2013 · 238 citations

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Difference engine

Diwaker Gupta, Sangmin Lee, Michael Vrable et al. · Communications of the ACM · 2010 · 232 citations

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Authors

205

  1. KR
    Kaveh Razavi

    Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam, Netherlands

    3 publications · 292 citations

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  2. BP
    Ben Pfaff

    Stanford University, United States

    2 publications · 567 citations

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  3. JC
    Jim Chow

    Stanford University, United States

    2 publications · 567 citations

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  4. MR
    Mendel Rosenblum

    Stanford University, United States

    2 publications · 567 citations

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  5. XZ
    Xu Zhang

    Xi'an University of Technology, China

    2 publications · 100 citations

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Institutions

64

  1. IBM (United States)

    Armonk, United States

    3 h-index

    5 publications

    317 citations

  2. Hewlett-Packard (United States)

    Palo Alto, United States

    3 h-index

    3 publications

    285 citations

  3. Huazhong University of Science and Technology

    Wuhan, China

    3 h-index

    6 publications

    114 citations

  4. Williams (United States)

    Tulsa, United States

    2 h-index

    6 publications

    300 citations

  5. Stony Brook University

    Stony Brook, United States

    2 h-index

    12 publications

    763 citations

  6. The University of Texas at Arlington

    Arlington, United States

    2 h-index

    2 publications

    44 citations

  7. Stanford University

    Stanford, United States

    2 h-index

    12 publications

    3.4K citations

  8. Virginia Tech

    Blacksburg, United States

    2 h-index

    6 publications

    326 citations

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Venues

  1. IEEE Transactions on Parallel and Distributed Systems

    TPDS · 3 publications · 135 citations

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  2. IEEE Transactions on Computers

    2 publications · 25 citations

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  3. ACM Transactions on Storage

    TOS · 2 publications · 86 citations

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  4. Proceedings of the VLDB Endowment

    PVLDB · 2 publications · 87 citations

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  5. ACM SIGPLAN Notices

    1 publications · 10 citations

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