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October 30, 2008

The Design and Implementation of a Log-Structured File System

Mendel Rosenblum and John K. Ousterhout. The Design and Implementation of a Log-Structured File System. ACM Trans. on Computer Systems 10(1), February 1992, pp. 26-52.

Reviews due Thursday, 11/6

A Fast File System for UNIX

Marshall K. McKusick, William N. Joy, Samuel J. Leffler, and Robert S. Fabry. A Fast File System for UNIX. ACM Trans. on Computer Systems 2(3), August 1984, pp. 181-197.

Reviews due Tuesday, 11/4.

Lightweight Remote Procedure Call

Brian N. Bershad, Thomas E. Anderson, Edward D. Lazowska, and Henry M. Levy. Lightweight Remote Procedure Call. ACM Trans. on Computer Systems 8(1), February 1990, pp.37-55.

Review due Thursday, 10/30.

October 14, 2008

Implementing Remote Procedure Calls

Andrew D. Birrell and Bruce Jay Nelson. Implementing Remote Procedure Calls in ACM Trans. on Computer Systems 2(1), February 1984, pp. 39-59.

Reviews due Tuesday, 10/28

Memory Resource Management in VMware ESX Server

Carl Waldspurger. Memory Resource Management in VMware ESX Server in Proceedings of the 5th Symposium on Operating Systems Design and Implementation, 2002.

Reviews due Thursday, 10/16

Scheduler Activations: Effective Kernel Support for the User-Level management of Parallelism

Thomas Anderson, Brian Bershad, Edward Lazowska, and Henry Levy. Scheduler Activations: Effective Kernel Support for the User-Level management of Parallelism. ACM Trans. on Computer Systems 10(1), Feburary 1992, pp. 53-79.

Review due for this or Resource Containers on Tuesday, 10/14.

Resource Containers: A New Facility for Resource Management in Server Systems

Banga, G., Druschel, P,. Mogul, J. Resource Containers: A New Facility for Resource Management in Server Systems. Proceedings of the Third Symposium on Operating System Design and Implementation (OSDI-III), New Orleans, LA, February, 1999, pages 45-58.

Review due for this or Scheduler Activations on Tuesday, 10/14