Seminar on hot topics in operating systems

Like in previous terms there will be another seminar on recent cool papers. The papers we will read are the papers that will appear in the upcoming 15th Symposium on Operating System Principles. The seminar is completely informal and does not earn you any credits.

The structure of the seminar is simple. We will meet once per week for an hour and discuss one paper. One of you will prepare a 20 minute presentation on one of the papers; after that we will debate the merits of the paper. You can choose which paper you would like to present.

The time and place is Wednesday at 4p in Room 204.

The schedule as of 10/9/95 is:

9/6 Serverless Network file systems (Frans)
9/13 Unet (Miguel Castro)
9/20 Exploiting weak connectivity for mobile file access (Mark Day)
9/27 Hypervisor-based fault-tolerance (Barbara Liskov)
10/4 The impact of architectural trends on operating system performance (Donald Yeung)
10/11 Managing update conflicts in a weakly connected replicated file system (Umesh)
10/18 The HP AutoRAID Hierarchical Storage System (Liuba Shrira)
10/18 The measured performance of personal computer operating systems (Brad Chen will present this paper in the POCS seminar)
10/25 Logged Virtual Memory (Atul) (canceled)
11/1 Extensibility, safety and performance in the SPIN operating system (Matt Frank)
11/8 Logged Virtual Memory (Atul) (The highly available scalable ITV system paper is unavailable)
11/15 Object and native code thread mobility among heterogenous computers
11/22 Hive: a fault containment for shared-memory multiprocessors (Max Poletto)
11/29 Implementing Global Memory Management in a workstation cluster (Ken Mackenzie)
12/6 SOSP
12/13 The HP AutoRAID Hierarchical Storage System (Liuba Shrira)
12/20 Informed Prefetching and Caching (Emmett Witchel)