Extensible Systems

• Spring (Sun) 
• "Extensible File Systems in Spring" Y. Khalidi and M. Nelson SOSP 1993
• Microstorage Architecture (Cornell)
• Implementing File Systems and Object Databases in a Microstorage Architecture
• Ficus/Stackable Layers (UCLA) Publications by the Ficus Project
• Stackable Layers: an Architecture for File System Development.
• File-system development with stackable layers.
• Performance of Cache Coherence in Stackable Filing.
• "HFS: A performance-oriented flexible file system based on building-block components" O. Krieger and M. Stumm TOCS v15 n3 August 1997 pp 286--321.
• ACFS (Application-controlled file system) (Princeton)
• Implementation and Performance of Integrated Application-Controlled Caching, Pre fetching and Disk Scheduling P. Cao, E. Felten, A. Karlin, K. Li, TOCS, Nov 1996.
• Symphony Recent Publications
• Virginia project?
• IBM project?
• persistant object stores
• Thor (MIT/Liskov)?

• Exokernel MIT Exokernel Operating System
• Application Performance and Flexibility on Exokernel System SOSP97.
• Exokernel: An Operating System Architecture for Application-Level Resource Management
• Application-Controlled Storage Management
• Micokernels, spin, ...

• Ensemble (Cornell)
• Scout (Arizona)

• Logical Disk (MIT) The Logical Disk

• The Logical Disk: A New Approach to Improving File Systems
• Atomic Recovery Units: Failure Atomicity for Logical Disks
• AutoRAID (HP)
• Petal
• Network attached storage

• Cache infrastructure for modular OS
• ACFS
• Rio

Scalable File Systems

• xFS xFS
• NASD (Gibson/CMU)
• Petal (DEC SRC)
• Edward K. Lee and Chandramohan Thekkath. Petal: Distributed virtual disks. In Proceedings of the Seventh International Conference on Architectural Support for Programming Languages and Operating Systems, ASPLOS-VII, pages 84-92. ACM, October 1996
• Frangipani SOSP97
• Microsoft SF Research Scalable Databases
• Scalable Servers page
• Jim Gray's home page
• Digital Research on scalable servers and storage
• WRL
• Tiger (Microsoft)
• VAXClusters(in particular -- the lock manager)
• Parallel File Systems
• Kotz -- collective I/O interface
• Swarm(Arizona)
• Scalable I/O
• Apollo Domain File System

Multimedia/Real-time file systems

• Symphony
• ...

Fault Tolerance

• LFT
• Lightweight Fault-tolerance for Highly Cooperative Distributed Applications
• Rio and Vista: Low-overhead persistant writes and transactions (Chen - michigan)
• D. Lowell and P. Chen "Free Transactions with RioVista" SOSP97
• W. Ng and P. Chen "Integrating Reliable Memory In Databases" VLDB 97
• P. Chen and W. Ng and S. Chandra and C. Aycock and G. Rajamani and D. Lowell The Rio File Cache: Surviving Operating System Crashes ASPLOS96
• "Recovery in the Calypso File System" M. Devarakonda and B. Kish and A. Mohindra TOCS Aug 1996 v14 n3.
• "The Recovery Box" M. Baker
• Mobile objects may be related? e.g. Emerald and surely bunches of newer stuff

Fast Networks

• Servernet (Tandem)

• ServerNet Interconnect Technology
• Breakthrough Technology for the Coming Generation of Applications
• Myrinet
• Active networks (Berkeley)
• Fast networks (Illinois)
• Unet (Cornel)
• SCI

Software Engineering

• CAR Hoare "The Emperor's Old Clothes" CACM v24 n2 Feb 1981
• McGuire Writing Solid Code
• Dahlin LESS Software Engineering Manual