Advanced OS Reading Group

Advanced Operating Systems Reading Group
(Summer 2002)

Overview

A bunch of us get together every monday afternoon and read some interesting papers related to OS and Networks. If you wanna participate just check the schedule and drop in.

Schedule

Date	Paper(s)	Time	Location	Discussion Leader
08/12	Lottery Scheduling	5pm-6pm	CSL Library
08/05	Abstracts from OSDI '94	5pm-6pm	CSL Library
07/29	No Class
07/22	Log-structured file system	5pm-6pm	CSL Library
07/15	The ABCDs of Paxos	5pm-6pm	CSL Library
07/08	The Network Time Protocol	5pm-6pm	CSL Library
07/01	Computer security in real world	5pm-6pm	Flux eating area
06/24	More distributed data stores	5pm-6pm	CSL Library
06/17	Andrew File System	5pm-6pm	CSL Library
06/10	Plan 9 from Bell Labs	5pm-6pm	CSL Library
06/03	Continuations for thread management	5pm-6pm	CSL Library
05/20	LRP	6pm-7pm	CSL Library

Paper Pool

Lottery Scheduling: Flexible Proportional-Share Resource Management. Carl A. Waldspurger and William E. Weihl. Proceedings of the First Symposium on Operating Systems Design and Implementation (OSDI '94), pages 1-11, Monterey, California, November 1994.[online]
OSDI 1994
The design and implementation of a log-structured file system. M. Rosenblum and J. Ousterhout. Proceedings of the 13th Symposium on Operating System Principles, pages 1--15, October 1991.[citeseer]
Internet Time Synchronization: The Network Time Protocol. David L. Mills.[ online]
The ABCDs of Paxos. Butler W. Lampson.[ online]
Computer security in Real World, Butler Lampson.[citeseer]
More distributed data stores

Khazana: A Flexible Wide Area Data Store, Sai Susarla and John Carter, OSDI 2002 submission.[ online]

Disconnected Operation in the Coda File System, Kistler, J.J., Satyanarayanan, M. ACM Transactions on Computer Systems, Feb. 1992, Vol. 10, No. 1, pp. 3-25.[pdf]

Andrew File System

An Overview of the Andrew File System, John Howard. Usenix 1988 Winter Conference Proceedings, pg 23-26. (Available from flux library)

Synchronization and Caching Issues in the Andrew File System , Michael Leon Kazar. Usenix 1988 Winter Conference Proceedings, pg 27-36. (Available from flux library)

Plan 9 from Bell Labs [ online]
Using Continuations to Implement Thread Management and Communication in Operating Systems, Draves, R.P., Bershad, B.N., Rashid, R.F. and Dean, R.W., Proceedings of the Thirteenth ACM Symposium on Operating System Principles, pp. 122-136, December 1991.[ citeseer ]
Lazy Receiver Processing (LRP): A New Architecture for Server Systems, P. Druschel and G. Banga. In Proceedings of the Second Symposium on Operating Systems Design and Implementation (OSDI'96), October 1996.[ pdf]

Previous Meetings

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