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November 25, 2008

Improving the Reliability of Commodity Operating Systems

Michael M. Swift, Brian N. Bershad, and Henry M. Levy. Improving the Reliability of Commodity Operating Systems. in Proceedings of the 19th ACM Symposium on Operating Systems Principles, Oct. 2003.

Reviews due Tuesday, 12/2.

Posted by Michael Swift at 10:58 AM | | Comments (17)

November 14, 2008

Why Do Computers Stop and What Can Be Done About It

Jim Gray. Why Do Computers Stop and What Can Be Done About It?. Tandem Tech Report TR-85.7, June 1985.

Reviews due Thursday, 11/20.

Posted by Michael Swift at 03:55 PM | | Comments (20)

The Google File System

Sanjay Ghemawat, Howard Gobioff, and Shun-Tak Leung. The Google File System. in 19th ACM Symposium on Operating Systems Principles, Lake George, NY, October, 2003.

Reviews due Tuesday, 11/18.

Posted by Michael Swift at 03:55 PM | | Comments (19)

November 10, 2008

Scale and Performance in a Distributed File System

John H. Howard, Michael L. Kazar, Sherri G. Menees, David A. Nichols, M. Stayanayanan, Robert N. Sidebotham, and Michael J. West. Scale and Performance in a Distributed File System. ACM Trans. on Computer Systems 6(1), February 1988, pp. 51-81.

Reviews due Thursday, 11/13.

Posted by Michael Swift at 08:53 PM | | Comments (14)

The Zettabyte File System

The Zettabyte File System.

Reviews due Tuesday, 11/11.

Posted by Michael Swift at 08:50 PM | | Comments (16)