This page is organized by the weeks of the quarter in which lectures were given and papers assigned. The weeks are in inverse order, on the assumption that you will most often be looking for the most recent week.
Lecture 15: Measuring Operating System Performance (6 up)
ARPANET crash of 1980; partition of 1986 [distributed in class]
Sources of Failure in the Public Switched Telephone Network, by D. Richard Kuhn, in IEEE Computer, Vol. 30, No. 4 (April, 1997), p. 31-36.
Lecture 11: Distributed Shared Memory (6 up)
Towards Transparent and Efficient Software DSM, by Scales and Gharachorloo, in Proceedings of the 16th Symposium on Operating Systems Principles, 1997.
Cashmere-2L: Software Coherent Shared Memory on a Clustered Remote-Write Network, by Stets et al, in Proceedings of the 16th Symposium on Operating Systems Principles, 1997.
Lecture 9: Novel Directions in File Systems (6 up)
Perspectives on Optimistically Replicated Peer-to-Peer Filing, by T. W. Page, R. G. Guy, J. S. Heidemann, D. Ratner, P. Reiher, A. Goel, G. H. Kuenning, and G. J. Popek, in Software practice and Experience, v. 28, n.2, February, 1998.
A Pageable Memory Based Filesystem, by Marshall McKusick, Michael Karels, and Keith Bostic, in Proceedings of the 1990 Summer Usenix Conference.
A Flash-Memory Based File System, by Atsuo Kawaguchi, Shingo Nishioka, and Hiroshi Motoda, in Proceedings of the 1995 Winter Usenix Conference.
File-system development with stackable layers, by John Heidemann and Gerald Popek, in ACM Transactions on Computer Systems, 12(1):58-89, 1994.
Lecture 8: File Systems Performance (6 up)
Lecture 7: Theoretical Foundations of Distributed Systems (part II) (6 up)
UNIX disk access patterns, by Chris Ruemmler and John Wilkes, in Proceedings of the Winter '93 USENIX Conference, 405-420, January, 1993.
A Fast File System for UNIX, by Michael K. McKusick, W. N. Joy, S. J. Leffler, and R. S. Fabry, in ACM Transactions on Computer Systems, 2(3):181-197, August 1984.
A Log-Structured File System for UNIX, by Seltzer, M., Bostic, K., McKusick., M., Staelin, C., in Proceedings of the 1993 Winter Usenix Conference.
A Case for Redundant Arrays of Inexpensive Disks (RAID), by David A. Patterson and Garth Gibson and Randy H. Katz, in ACM SIGMOD Conference Proceedings, 109-116, 1988.
The Zebra Striped Network File System, by John H. Hartman, John K. Ousterhout, in ACM Transactions on Computer Systems, 13(3): 274-310, 1995.
Serverless Network File Systems, by T. Anderson, M. Dahlin, J. Neefe, D. Patterson, D. Roselli, and R. Wang, in Proceedings of the 15th Symposium on Operating Systems Principles, 1995.
Frangipani: A Scalable Distributed File System, by Chandramohan A. Thekkath, Timothy Mann, and Edward K. Lee, in Proceedings of the 16th Symposium on Operating Systems Principles, 1997.
Lecture 5: Distributed Systems Architectures (6 up)
Lecture 4: Synchronization & Deadlocks (6 up)
Lecture 3: OS Ext. & 64-Bit systems (6 up)
Anonymous RPC: Low-Latency Protection in a 64-Bit Address Space, by Curtis Yarvin, Richard Bukowski, and Thomas Anderson, in USENIX Conference Proceedings, Summer 1993.
The Expected Lifetime of "Single-Address-Space" Operating Systems, by David Kotz and Preston Chow, Dartmouth College Technical Report PCS-TR93-198 (revised 1996).
Lecture 2: OS Extensibility (3 up) (6 up)
Lecture 1: OS Architectures (3 up) (6 up)
Singhal, Chapter 1: Operating System Overview.
Tanenbaum, Chapter 7: Amoeba Case Study [SEL Reserve]
Tanenbaum, Chapter 8: Mach Case Study [SEL Reserve]
Stallings, Chapter 2: Windows NT [SEL Reserve]
Why Aren't Operating Systems Getting Faster as Fast as Hardware?, by John Ousterhout, in USENIX Conference Proceedings, Summer 1990.
The Interaction of Architecture and Operating System Design, by Thomas Anderson, Hank Levy, Brian Bershad, and Ed Lazowska, in Fourth International Conference on Architectural Support for Programming Languages and Operating Systems, 1991.
Plan 9 from Bell Labs, by Rob Pike, Dave Presotto, Sean Dorward, Bob Flandrena, Ken Thompson, Howard Trickey, and Phil Winterbottom, in Plan 9, Volume 2: The Documents.
Extensibility, Safety and Performance in the SPIN Operating System,, by Brian Bershad, Stefan Savage, Przemyslaw Pardyak, Emin Gun Sirer, David Becker, March Fiuczynski, Craig Chambers, Susan Eggers, in Proceedings of the 15th Symposium on Operating Systems Principles, 1995.
Exokernel: An Operating System Architecture for Application-Level Resource Management, by Dawson Engler, Frans Kaashoek, and James O'Toole, in Proceedings of the 15th Symposium on Operating Systems Principles, 1995.
Microkernels Meet Recursive Virtual Machines, by Bryan Ford, Mike Hibler, Jay Lepreau, Patrick Tullman, Godmar Back, and Stephen Clawson, in Proceedings of the Second USENIX Symposium on Operating Systems Design and Implementation, 1996.
SLIC: An Extensibility System for Commodity Operating Systems, by
Douglas Ghormley, David Petrou, Steven Rodrigues, and
Thomas Anderson,
in Proceedings of the USENIX 1998 Annual Technical Conference.
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A Comparison of OS Extension Technologies, by Christopher Small and Margo Seltzer, in Proceedings of the USENIX 1996 Annual Technical Conference.
The Impact of Archtectural Trends on Operating System Performance, by Mendel Rosenblum, Edouard Bugnion, Stephen Herrod, Emmett Witchel, and Anoop Gupta, in Proceedings of the 15th Symposium on Operating Systems Principles, 1995.
On u-Kernel Construction, by Jochen Liedtke, in Proceedings of the 15th Symposium on Operating Systems Principles, 1995.
Porting UNIX to Windows NT, by David Korn, in Proceedings of the USENIX 1997 Annual Technical Conference.
Flexibility in Object-Oriented Operating Systems: A Review, by Vinny Cahill, Technical Report TCD-CS-96-05, Trinity College Dublin, 1996.
Application Performance and Flexibility on Exokernel Systems, by Frans Kaashoek, Dawson Engler, Gregory Ganger, Hector Briceno, Russell Hunt, David Mazieres, Thomas Pinckney, Robert Grimm, John Jannotti, and Kenneth Mackenzie, in Proceedings of the 16th Symposium on Operating Systems Principles, 1997.
The Flux OSKit: A Substrate for Kernel and Language Research, by Bryan Ford, Godmar Black, Greg Benson, Jay Lepreau, Albert Lin, and Olin Shivers, in Proceedings of the 16th Symposium on Operating Systems Principles, 1997.
Opal: A Single Address Space System for 64-bit Architectures, by Jeff Chase, Hank Levy, Miche Baker-Harvey, and Ed Lazowska, in Proceedings of the IEEE Workshop on Workstation Operating Systems, 1992.
Architectural Support for Single Address Space Operating Systems, by Jeff Chase, Hank Levy, Miche Baker-Harvey, and Ed Lazowska, in Proceedings of the IEEE Workshop on Workstation Operating Systems, 1992.