CS 736 - Spring 2007 - Paper Discussion

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.

Reviews due Tuesday, 3/6

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

Reviews due Thursday, 3/1.

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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, 2/22.

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Michael Young, Avadis Tevanian, Jr., Richard Rashid, David Golub, Jeffrey Eppinger, Jonathan Chew, William Bolosky, David Black, and Robert Baron. The Duality of Memory and Communication in the Implementation of a Multiprocessor Operating System. In 11th Symp. on Operating Systems Principles, pages 63--76, 1987.

Reviews for this or working set paper due Tuesday, 2/20.

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Peter J. Denning. The working set model for program behavior. In Communications of the ACM 11(5), May 1968.Pages 323 - 333.

Review for this or Mach memory paper due Tuesday, 2/20

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Dawson R. Engler and M. Frans Kaashoek. Exterminate All Operating System Abstractions. Fifth Workshop on Hot Topics in Operating Systems (HotOS-V), Orcas Island, Washington, May, 1995

Review due Thursday, 2/15.

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Jeffrey Chase, Henry Levy, Michael Feeley, and Edward Lazowska. Sharing and Protection in a Single Address Space Operating System. ACM Trans. on Computer Systems, November 1994.

Reviews due Tuesday, 2/13.

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B. Bershad, S. Savage, P. Pardyak, E. Sirer, M. Fiuczynski, D. Becker, C. Chambers, and S. Eggers. Extensibility, Safety and Performance in the SPIN Operating System. Proc. of the 15th ACM. Symp. on Operating Systems Principles, December 1995.

Reviews due Thursday, 2/8.

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David D. Redell, Yogen K. Dalal, Thomas R. Horsley, Hugh C. Lauer, William C. Lynch, Paul R. McJones, Hal G. Murray, and Stephen C. Purcell. Pilot: An Operating System for a Personal Computer . Communications of the ACM 23(2), February 1980, pp. 81-92.

Reviews due Tuesday, 2/6.

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