| Wk |
Date |
Discussion Topic |
Homework/
Extra Reading |
| 1 |
8/31 |
Mike Dahlin guest lecture.
Review syllabus and HW1. notes
How (and How Not) to Write a Good Systems Paper
(Levin and Redell 1983) |
HW1
|
| 2 |
9/5
|
No meeting: Labor Day.
Medical Devices: The
Therac-25 (Levinson 1993)
|
The Task of
the
Referee
See Dahlin's Advice
|
| 9/7 |
Historical
perspective & OS Design
1) The UNIX
Timesharing System (Ritchie and Thompson 1974) notes 2up
2) The Rise of "Worse is Better"
(Richard Gabriel) |
HW1 in-class quiz
Historical
perspective & OS Design
THE
(Dijkstra 1968)
notes
|
| 3 |
9/12 |
Virtual Memory & Virtual Machines
Disco: Running
Commodity Operating Systems on Scalable Multiprocessors (Bugnion
et al, 1997) notes
2up |
Project: Topic
selection (9/12)
Historical perspective
Protection and the Control of Information Sharing in
Multics (Saltzer 1974)
Multics (Daley
and Dennis) notes
|
| 9/14 |
Virtual
Memory & Virtual Machines
Memory Resource Management
in VMware ESX Server (Waldspurger 2002) notes 2up |
List of 6 papers you can
present
due Friday 9/16. Email list to Witchel.
|
| 4 |
9/19 |
OS Design
1) Exokernel: An
Operating System Architecture for Appliation-Level Resource Management
(Engler et al, 1995) notes 2up
2) End-to-end
Arguments in System Design (Saltzer, Reed, Clark 1984) notes 2up |
Review exokernel paper. Don't review end-to-end paper,
instead apply end-to-end argument to 3
Exokernel design decisions.
Application performance and
Flexibility on Exokernel Systems (Kaashoek et.al.1997) |
| 9/21 |
OS
Design, Synchronization
1) Synthesis kernel (Massalin
and Pu 1989) notes 2up
2) Chapter 6 from
Massalin's Thesis (1992) (remainder of thesis is optional) |
Hamming's
Advice on Research |
| 5 |
9/26 |
Threads and
concurrency
1) Mesa (Lampson
and
Redell 1980)
2) Why Threads Are
a Bad Idea (for most purposes)(Ousterhout 1996) notes Snotes
3) Double checked
locking is broken (Bacon) |
Project: Proposal (9/26)
You only need to review the Lampson paper
Programming with
Threads
(Birrell 1996)
|
| 9/28 |
Scheduling
Scheduler
Activations
(Anderson et al) notes
Snotes |
LESS SW Eng Manual |
| 6 |
10/3 |
Communication
> Remote Procedure
Calls (Birrell and Nelson 1984) notes
Snotes |
Communication > Active
Messages (vonEicken et. al. 1992) notes |
10/5
|
File Systems & Communication
Design and
Implementation of the SUN Network Filesystem (Sandberg et.al.
1985) Snotes |
| 7 |
10/10 |
Communication
Eliminating Receive Livelock
in an Interrupt-driven Kernel (Mogul 1996) Snotes |
|
| 10/12 |
File
Systems
1) A Fast File System
for UNIX notes
2) (Optional) An
Introduction to Disk Drive Modelling (Ruemmler
and Wilkes
1994) Snotes |
| 8 |
10/17 |
Virtual memory
Machine-Independent
Virtual Memory Management for Paged Uniprocessor and Multiprocessor
Architectures (Rashid et al 1987) notes Snotes(ppt)
Snotes(pdf) |
Unix
as an Application Process (Golub 1990) |
| 10/19 |
Virtual Memory & OS Reliability
Mondrix: Memory
Isolation for Linux Using Mondriaan Memory Protection (Witchel et.
al. 2005) |
Improving
Reliability of Modern OSes (Swift et.al. 2003)
Mondrian Memory
Protection (Witchel et.al. 2002) |
| 9 |
10/24 |
No meeting,
SOSP 2005 |
From Dahlin's Advice:
Coping with complexity |
| 10/25 |
Midterm
6-8pm, UTC 1.132 |
| 10/26 |
No meeting, SOSP 2005.
|
| 10 |
10/31 |
File
Systems > Integrity Transaction
Concept (Gray 1981)
notes Snotes |
Project: Checkpoint and design review
(10/31)
From Dahlin's Advice:
The Emperor's Old
Clothes
Linearizability: A Correctness
Condition for Concurrent Objects (Herlihy and Wing 1990) |
| 11/2 |
File Systems >
Integrity
The Design and
Implementation of a Log-Structured File System (Rosenblum
and Ousterhout
1992) LFS notes
Ousterhout's critique
of Seltzer's 1993 paper
Ousterhout's critique
of Seltzer's 1995 paper
Seltzer's response to
Ousterhout's critiques
Ousterhout's response
to Seltzer Snotes |
| 11 |
11/7 |
File Systems
> Integrity
Soft Updates: A
Technique for Eliminating Most Synchronous Writes in the Fast
Filesystem (McKusick and Ganger 1999) Snotes |
|
| 11/9 |
Distributed File
Systems
Scale and
Performance in a Distributed File System (Howard et
al, 1988)
AFS notes Snotes |
| 12 |
11/14 |
Access
Control >
1) Paradigm Regained
2) The Confused Deputy Snotes |
EROS: A Fast Capability
System (Shapiro et. al. 1999) |
| 11/16 |
Security
> Experience and failures
1) Reflections on
Trusting Trust Snotes (ppt, sxi)
2) Fast and secure distributed
read-only file system (Fu et. al. 2002) Snotes |
Separating
key management from file system security (Mazieres et. al. 1999)
Abadi and Needham,
1996
Prudent notes
|
| 13 |
11/21 |
Security > Authentication
1) Authentication in
Distributed Systems TAOS notes Snotes
2) Problems with xbox secure boot
|
1)A Logic of
Authentication BAN notes
2)Implementing an Untrusted Operating
System on Trusted Hardware (Lie 2003) |
| 11/23 |
Security >
System
Setuid Demystified
(Chen et. al. 2002) Snotes |
Why
Cryptosystems
Fail (Ross J. Anderson 1994) |
| 14 |
11/28 |
Multithreaded Debugging
RaceTrack: Efficient
Detection of Data Race Conditions via
Adaptive Tracking (Yu et. al. 2005) Snotes |
Career
and general advice
Virtual Time and Global States of
Distributed Systems (Mattern 1988) |
| 11/30 |
1) Hints for Computer System Design (Lampson 1983) Snotes
2) A Note on the
Confinement Problem (Lampson 1973) Snotes |
Instead of a review for Hints paper, give your
own
hints based on your project experience. |
| 15 |
12/5
|
Project
Presentation |
Project: Report (12/12)
|
| 12/7 |
Project
Presentations |
| 12/8 |
Midterm
5:30-7:30pm GEO 2.102 |