CS 5600: Computer Systems (Spring 2016)

Instructor: Kapil Arya

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News

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Monday, Apr 11, 2016 Reading assignment:

• Xen and the Art of Virtualization
• Cellular Disco: resource management using virtual clusters on shared-memory multiprocessors
• Memory Resource Management in VMware ESX Server

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Monday, March 21, 2016

HW4 is now online.

Reading assignment:

• A Fast File System for UNIX
• The Design and Implementation of a Log-Structured File System

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Thursday, March 17, 2016

Projects page is now online.

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Wednesday, Feb 16, 2016

Homework 3 (due 2/29/2016) is now out!

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Friday, Feb 11, 2016

Required readings:

• Solution of a Problem in Concurrent Programming Control
• Fuss, Futexes and Furwocks: Fast Userlevel Locking in Linux

Optional readings:

• How to read a paper
• Experience with Processes and Monitors in Mesa
• Futexes are tricky

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Wednesday, Jan 27, 2016

Homework 2 (due 2/8/2016) is now out!

Reading assignment has also been posted on the Syllabus page.

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Monday, Jan 11, 2016

Homework 1 (due 1/20/2016) is now out!

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Wednesday, Jan 6, 2016

Reading assignment and quiz:

The UNIX Time-Sharing System All students should come to class having already read and understood the original description of UNIX in the paper:

http://www.cs.berkeley.edu/~brewer/cs262/unix.pdf

There will be a quiz on the first day of class, based on this reading assignment.

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Wednesday, Jan 6, 2016

Homework 0 (due 1/11/2016) is now out!

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Tuesday, November 17, 2015

Course webpage up.