CS 644

Advanced Operating Systems

Fall 2007 - 3 credits

General Information

Instructor

Jeanna Matthews

Office: Science Center 389

Phone: 268-6288

E-mail: jnm@clarkson.edu

Homepage: http://www.clarkson.edu/~jnm

Times

Class Times: MWF 1-2 (MW 12:45-2), COSI lab

Office Hours: TBA

Papers

I expect to discuss 1-2 papers per class period. The papers for each class will be listed in the syllabus below. A reaction is due in hard copy at the beginning of each class. The reaction should contain a summary of the paper and an answer to the following three questions: 1) What is the primary lesson you took away from this paper? 2) What do you think would be the most interesting way to extend this work? 3)If you had to list a criticism of this paper, what would it be?

Paper List

Objectives

Expose students to current and classical operating systems literature

Give students an understanding of what it means to do research in computer science and specifically operating systems

Teach students to critcially evaluate research papers

Tackle some challenging projects and write paper suitable for publication

Outcomes

Students will learn to read and critique research papers

Students will summarize and lead a discussion of research papers

Students will be familiar with classic operating systems literature

Students will know where to look for and where to publish operating system papers

Students will make substantial contributions to a large operating systems project that can be submitted for publication

Exams

There will be a final exam in this class.

Attendance

Participation in class discussions is an essential part of this class so attendance is required and the papers must be read prior to the class period.

Late Work

This is a small class and I expect to solicit group input when setting deadlines. Once set, I expect everyone to meet the deadlines.

Tentative Grading Scheme

30% Class Discussion/Paper Reaction Portfolio
5% Paper presentations
35% Class Project
30% Final Exam

Tentative Syllabus

Date	Lecture Topic	Other Notes
Mon 8/27	Introduction, Course Logistics, What is Research SOSP07 program SIGOPS Hall of Fame
Weds 8/29	An Evaluation of the Ninth SOSP Submissions Efficient Reading of Papers in Science and Technology
Mon 9/3	CLASSICS:OS STRUCTURE The "THE" , Nucleus	What does "THE" stand for? Technische Hoogeschool Eindhoven
Weds 9/5	CLASSICS:OTHER OS Protection and the Control of Information in Multics , Plan 9 from Bell Labs	Introduction and Overview of Multics , UNIX
Mon 9/10	Plan9 Discussion, FFS
Weds 9/12	LFS
Mon 9/17	GFS
Weds 9/19	SOSP07 Storage I/O Shepherding
Mon 9/24	Generalized File System Dependencies
Weds 9/26	SOSP07 Energy Integrating Concurrency Control and Energy Management in Device Drivers
Mon 10/1	NO CLASS: FALL RECESS
Weds 10/3	VirtualPower: Coordinated Power Management in Virtualized Enterprise Systems
Mon 10/8	SOSP 2007 Software Robustness Bouncer: Securing Software By Blocking Bad Input Triage: Diagnosing Production Run Failures at the User's Site
Wed 10/10	iComments: Bugs or Bad Comments>
Mon 10/15	SOSP07 System Maintenance Staged Deployment in Mirage, an Integrated Software Upgrade Testing and Distribution System
Weds 10/17	AutoBash: Improving Configuration Management with Operating System Causality Analysis
Mon 10/22	SOSP07 Operating System Security
Weds 10/24	Information Flow for Standard OS Abstractions SecVisor
Mon 10/29	SecVisor; Project Status
Weds 10/31	Project status
Mon 11/5	Quick report on Secure Virtual Architecture SOSP 07 Distributed Systems: Dynamo Project status (figure analysis continued)
Wed 11/7	Dynamo
Mon 11/12	Sinfonia
Wed 11/14	PeerReview
Mon 11/19	Plan 9 ( not from Bell labs)
Wed 11/21	NO CLASS: THANKSGIVING
Mon 11/26	PeerReview
Wed 11/28	Zyzzava
Mon 12/3	TxLinux
Wed 12/5	CLASSICS Butler Lampson's Turing Award Leture: Principles for Computer System Design 10 years earlier: Hints for Computer System Design
Mon 12/10	FINALS WEEK, ITL, 8-11 AM
Fri 12/14