Due Monday, Apr-30, 12:00 pm: Read Memory Resource Management in VMware ESX Server.
Due Wednesday, Apr-25, 12:00 pm: Read Reinventing Scheduling for Multicore Systems (a short paper). Also begin reading On Micro-kernel Construction, from its beginning through (and including) Section 4. We will move onto Section 5 and beyond later.
Due Friday, Apr-20, 12:00 pm: Read Debugging Operating Systems with Time-Traveling Virtual Machines.
Due Monday, Apr-16, 12:00 pm: Read Treating Bugs as Allergies -- A Safe Method to Survive Software Failures.
Due Wednesday, Apr-11, 12:00 pm: Read Enhanced Server Availability and Security Through Failure-Oblivious Computing.
Due Wednesday, Apr-04, 12:00 pm: Read The Google File System.
Due Wednesday, Mar-28, 12:00 pm: Read The Design and Implementation of a Log-Structured File System and A Case for Redundant Arrays of Inexpensive Disks.
Due Friday, Mar-16, 12:00 pm: Read Stabalizer: Enforcing Predictable and Analyzable Performance.
Due Wednesday, Mar-14, 12:00 pm: Read Performance of Multithreaded Chip Multiprocessors and Implications for Operating System Design.
Due Friday, Mar-02, 12:00 pm: First, read Scaling to the End of Silicon with EDGE Architectures. Second, begin reading, for a later discussion, LIRS: An Efficient Low Inter-reference Recency Set Replacement Policy to Improve Buffer Cache Performance.
Due Friday, Feb-24, 12:00 pm: Read CRAMM: Virtual Memory Support for Garbage-Collected Applications. Yes, I'm one of the authors; live with it.
Due Friday, Feb-17, 12:00 pm: Read Trace Driven Memory Simulation: A Survey.
Due Wednesday, Feb-15, 12:00 pm: Read Archipeligo: Trading Address Space for Reliability and Security.
Due Friday, Feb-03, 12:00 pm: Read A Locality Improving Dynamic Memory Allocator, available once again via the ACM.
Due Monday, Jan-30, 12:00 pm: Read The Memory Fragmentation Problem: Solved?. Note again that the ACM is the source for this paper, so have an account or be on campus to access this paper.
Due Wednesday, Jan-25, 12:00 pm: Read Producing Wrong Data Without Doing Anything Obviously Wrong!. Notice that you must be on campus (or have an ACM account) to download this paper.
Due Monday, Jan-23, 12:00 pm: Read the Course Information in its entirety.