OS Reading Group
The Operating Systems Reading Group has been meeting for many years to
discuss both recent and classic OS research. Faculty and graduate students
contribute equally to discussions in these meetings. Our method for
selecting and discussing papers is somewhat unusual: at each meeting a
random roll of the dice selects a presenter for the current paper. (The
person who chooses the following week's paper is also decided by a random
roll of the dice.)
Clearly this setup requires everyone to have read the paper before the
meeting! However, as systems researchers we have to be pragmatists, so
unprepared folks can "buy out" of presenting by paying a small fine. (The
collected fines are used to buy food and/or beverages for the group.) In
recent years there has been a dearth of buy-outs, leading to great in-depth
discussions!
New members are always welcome, and are granted amnesty from both
presenting and selecting papers for their first few weeks.
The current organizer/keeper of the mailing list
is David Tam. Send him
email if you would like to join us!
Habitual Attendees
Papers discussed in the recent past
Current Papers - Fall 2002
- December 16 -
Memory resource management in VMware ESX Server
- December 9 - No meeting. OSDI.
- December 2 -
Scale and performance in the Denali isolation kernel
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Andrew Whitaker, Marianne Shaw, and Steven D. Gribble, In Proc.
of the Fifth Symposium
on Operating Systems Design and Implementation, 9--11 December 2002.
- November 25 -
Ivy: a read/write peer-to-peer file system
- November 18 -
Pastiche: Making backup cheap and easy
- November 11 -
Optimizing the migration of virtual computers
- November 4 -
An analysis of internet content delivery systems
- October 28 -
Supporting time-sensitive applications on general-purpose operating systems
- October 21 -
An integrated experimental environment for distributed systems and networks
Brian White, Jay Lepreau, Leigh Stoller, Robert Ricci, Shashi
Guruprasad, Mac Newbold, Mike Hibler, Chad Barb, Abhijeet Joglekar, In Proc.
of the Fifth Symposium
on Operating Systems Design and Implementation, 9--11 December 2002.
- October 14 - No meeting. Thanksgiving.
- October 7 -
Defensive programming: using an annotation toolkit to build DoS-resistant software
- September 30 -
Cooperative I/O - A novel I/O semantics for energy-aware applications
- September 23 -
Practical, transparent operating system support for superpages
Juan Navarro, Sitaram Iyer, Peter Druschel, Alan Cox, In Proc. of Fifth Symposium
on Operating Systems Design and Implementation, 9--11 December 2002.
Abstract
- September 16 -
Filesystem performance and scalability in Linux 2.4.17
Ray Bryant, Ruth Forester, John Hawkes,
In Proc. of FREENIX Track: 2002 USENIX Annual Technical Conference,
10--15 June 2002. Abstract
Angela Demke Brown
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