| Week |
Date |
Topic |
Reading and Assignments |
| 1 |
9/3 |
Class Cancelled for Orientation and Imagine UBC |
| 9/5 |
Course Introduction |
First Day Handout
Hand: Are Virtual Machine
Monitors Microkernels Done Right?
Heiser: Are
Virtual-Machine Monitors Microkernels Done Right?
|
| 2 |
9/10 |
The Beginning of Timesharing |
Corbató:
An Experimental Time-Sharing System
Dijkstra: The Structure
of the "THE" Multiprogramming System
|
| 9/12 |
Early Virtual Memory |
Kilburn: One Level Storage System
Daley: Virtual Memory, Processes,
and Sharing in MULTICS
Bensoussan: The Multics Virtual
Memory:Concepts and Design
|
| 3 |
9/17 |
Microkernels |
Rashid: From RIG to Accent
to Mach: The Evolution of a Network Operating System
Leidtke: On micro-kernel
Construction
|
| 9/19 |
Multi-processors Then and Now |
Gamsa: Tornado: Maximizing
Locality and Concurrency
in a Shared Memory Multiprocessor Operating System
Baumann: The Multikernel: A New
OS Architecture for Scalable Multicore Systems
|
| 4 |
9/24 |
Introduction to Virtual Machines |
Assignment 1 due MONDAY September 23
at 5:00 PM
Meyer: A virtual machine
time-sharing system.
Bugnion: Disco: running commodity
operating systems on scalable multiprocessors
|
| 9/26 |
Cool Virtualization Techniques |
Quiz #1: History and Virtual Machines
Please complete paper survey
Waldspurger: Memory
Resource Management in VMware ESX Server
|
| 5 |
10/1 |
Virtual machines on virtual machine on ... |
Ford: Microkernels Meet
Recursive Virtual Machines
Barham: Xen and the Art
of Virtualization
|
| 10/3 |
Moving Isolation Boundaries: Containers |
Resource Containers: A New
Facility for Resource Management in Server Systems
Menage: Adding Generic Process Containers to the Linux Kernel
10/4: Project Proposal and Research Plan Due 5:00 PM
|
| 6 |
10/8 |
Moving Isolation Boundaries Again |
Manco: My VM is Lighter
(and Safer) than your Container
Litton: Light-weight Contexts:
An OS Abstraction for Safety and Performance
|
| 10/10
| Unikernels |
Engler: Exokernel: An Operating
System Architecture for Application-Level Resource
Management
Porter: Rethinking the Library
OS from the Top Down
|
| 7 |
10/15 |
Modern Unikernels |
Kivity: OSv—Optimizing the
Operating System for Virtual Machines
Schatzberg: EbbRT: A
Framework for Building Per-Application Library Operating
Systems
|
| 10/17 |
It's All about the Network |
Mosberger: Making Paths
Explicit in the Scout Operating System
Peter: Arrakis: The Operating
System is the Control Plane
|
| 8 |
10/22 |
Quiz and Component-based Operating Systems |
Quiz #2: OS Architectures
Please complete paper survey #2
Ford: The Flux OSKit: A Substrate
for Kernel and Language Research
|
| 10/24 |
Code Synthesis for Optimization |
Pu: The Synthesis Kernel
Hoiland-Jorgensen: The
eXpress Data Path: Fast Programmable Packet Processing in the
Operating System Kernel
|
| 9 |
10/29 |
OS Verification |
Schedule First Project Status meeting with me
Klein: seL4: Formal
Verification of an OS Kernel
Chen: Using Crash Hoare Logic for
Certifying the FSCQ File System
|
| 10/31 |
More Verification |
Gu: CertiKOS: An Extensible
Architecture for Building Certified Concurrent OS Kernels
Nelson: Hyperkernel: Push-Button
Verification of an OS Kernel
|
| 10 |
11/5 |
File Systems
|
Schedule second project status meeting with me!
Hagmann: Reimplementing the
Cedar File System Using Logging and Group Commit
Rosenblum: The Design and
Implementation of a Log-Structured File System
|
| 11/7 |
Network File Systems |
Sandberg: Design and
Implementation of the Sun Network Filesystem
Howard: Scale and Performance in
a Distributed File System
|
| 11 |
11/12 |
Distributed File Systems |
Anderson: Serverless
Network File Systems
Mickens: Blizzard: Fast,
Cloud-scale Block Storage for Cloud-oblivious Applications |
| 11/14 |
Distributed Systems |
Schroeder: Experience with
Grapevine: The Growth of a Distributed System
Rinard: Enhancing Server
Availability and Security Through Failure-Oblivious
Computing
|
| 12 |
11/19 |
Project Presentations |
Project First Draft Due by SUNDAY, 11/24
9:00 PM |
| 11/21 |
Project Presentations |
|
| 13 |
11/26 |
Wisdom |
Quiz #3: Synthesis, Verification, and File Systems (oh my)
Please complete paper survey
Lampson: Hints for System
Design
Paper Reviews due by 5:00PM November 27!
|
| 11/28 |
Mock Program Committee |
(Last Day of Class) |
|
| 16 |
12/3 |
Exam Period |
|
| 12/5 |
| 17 |
12/13 |
FINAL PROJECTS |
This date is subject to change pending final exam schedule
Final projects due at 5:00 PM |