CS 736 - Spring 2007 - Paper Discussion

Garth A. Gibson, David F. Nagle, Khalil Amiri, Jeff Butler, Fay W. Chang, Howard Gobioff, Charles Hardin, Erik Riedel, David Rochberg and Jim Zelenka. A cost-effective, high-bandwidth storage architecture . Proceedings of the eighth international conference on Architectural support for programming languages and operating systems, 1998, pp. 92--103

Reviews for this or RAID paper due Tuesday, 4/10.

Posted by Michael Swift at 09:45 AM | Permalink | Comments (2)

David A. Patterson, Garth Gibson, and Randy H. Katz. A Case for Redundant Arrays of Inexpensive Disks (RAID) Proceedings of the 1988 ACM SIGMOD Conference on Management of Data, Chicago IL, June 1988.

Reviews for this or other paper due Tuesday, 4/10.

Posted by Michael Swift at 09:44 AM | Permalink | Comments (9)

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 for this or NFS due Thursday, 3/29.

Posted by Michael Swift at 10:52 AM | Permalink | Comments (6)

Russel Sandberg, David Goldberg, Steve Kleiman, Dan Walsh, and Bob Lyon. Design and Implementation of the Sun Network Filesystem . Proceedings of the Summer 1985 USENIX Conference, Portland OR, June 1985, pp. 119-130.

Reviews for this or AFS due Thursday, 3/29.

Posted by Michael Swift at 10:49 AM | Permalink | Comments (4)

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 Thursday, 3/22

Posted by Michael Swift at 09:35 PM | Permalink | Comments (9)

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 Tuesday, 3/27.

Posted by Michael Swift at 04:00 PM | Permalink | Comments (9)

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.

Reviews due Tuesday, 3/20.

Posted by Michael Swift at 07:17 AM | Permalink | Comments (1)

C. Waldspurger and W. Weihl. Lottery Scheduling: Flexible Proportional-Share Resource Management . Proceedings of the First USENIX Symposium on Operating System Design and Implementation, November 1994.

Reviews due Tuesday, 3/20

Posted by Michael Swift at 07:15 AM | Permalink | Comments (9)

# 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.

Reviews due Tuesday, 3/13.

Posted by Michael Swift at 09:28 AM | Permalink | Comments (11)

Thorsten von Eicken, Anindya Basu, Vineet Buch, Werner Vogels U-Net: A User-Level Network Interface for Parallel and Distributed Computing in Proceedings of the 15th ACM Symposium on Operating Systems Principles, Copper Mountain Resort, Colorado, December 1995, 40-53.

Reviews due Thursday, 3/8

Posted by Michael Swift at 09:30 AM | Permalink | Comments (9)