Operating Systems Reading Group

When: Winter 2019, every Wednesday at 13:00
Where: Online over Skype

Each week we will assign a moderator that will be responsible for moderating the discussion. You do not need to prepare slides, your responsibility is to direct the flow of the discussion. It is everyone’s responsibility to have read the papers prior to coming to the group.

Winter 2021 Papers

Papers
CrossFS: A Cross-layered Direct-Access File System
Parakernel, Demikernel, and Nullkernel (from HotOS 2019)
Benchmarking, Analysis, and Optimization of Serverless Function Snapshots
Pocket: Elastic Ephemeral Storage for Serverless Analytics
Redleaf: Isolation and Communication in a Safe Operating System
Theseus: an Experiment in OS Structure and State Management
Photons: Lambdas on a Diet
Fault-tolerant and Transactional Stateful Serverless Workflows

Past Papers

Papers
SAND: Towards High-Performance Serverless Computing
Serverless in the Wild
Serverless Computing: One Step Forward, Two Steps Back
Cloudburst: Stateful Functions-as-a-Service
Firecracker: Lightweight Virtualization for Serverless Applications
A Comprehensive Analysis of Superpage Management Mechanisms and Policies
Cyclone: A Safe Dialect of C
Experiences from a Decade of TinyOS Development
The directory-based cache coherence protocol for the DASH multiprocessor
Strata: High-Performance Scalable Storage on Virtualized Non-Volatile Memory
Control Flow Integrity
Hacking Blind
IX
Arachne
L4
Exokernel
Arrakis
Dark Silicon and the End of Multicore Scaling
Stride Scheduling
BVT Scheduling
Petal and Frangipani
Replication in the Harp Filesystem
Practical Byzantine Fault Tolerance
Viewstamped Replication
HP AutoRAID
Hyperupcalls
Clock PRO
Adaptive Replacement Cache
Fast File System
Write Anywhere File Layout
Log File System
Ori File System
Scalable Communiativity Rule
Design Evolution of the EROS Single-Level Store
Slab Allocator & Magazines and Vmem

Distributed Systems Reading Group

When: Winter 2019, every Wednesday at 3:00 PM
Where: DC2310

Each week we will assign a moderator that will be responsible for moderating the discussion. You do not need to prepare slides, your responsibility is to direct the flow of the discussion. It is everyone’s responsibility to have read the papers prior to coming to the group.

Winter 2019 Papers

Date Paper Moderator
2/20/19 Using Paxos to Build a Scalable, Consistent, and Highly Available Datastore
2/27/19 Harp Oscar
3/6/19 JetFile Ryan
3/13/19 Bayou Ibrahim
3/20/19 SUNDR Hao

Multicore Systems Reading Group

When: Winter 2019, every Friday at 4:00 PM
Where: DC2310

Each week we will assign a moderator that will be responsible for moderating the discussion. You do not need to prepare slides, your responsibility is to direct the flow of the discussion. It is everyone’s responsibility to have read the papers prior to coming to the group.

Winter 2019 Papers

Date Paper Moderator
3/8/19 Flat Combining NUMA Locks
3/1/19
2/22/19 Lock Cohorting: A General Technique for Designing NUMA Locks
2/15/19 SNZI: Scalable Non-zero Indicators