| Date | Readings |
Part 1: Basics and Classics
|
| Tu 8/30 |
The UNIX
Time-Sharing System
Dennis M. Richie and Ken Thompson
(New electronic version) |
| Th 9/1 |
Entrance Exam |
| Tu 9/6
|
A
History
and Evaluation of System R
Donald D. Chamberlin, Morton A. Astrahan, Michael W.
Blasgen, James N. Gray, W. Frank King, Bruce G. Lindsay, Raymond
Lorie, James W. Mehl, Thomas G. Price, Franco Putzolu, Patricia
Griffiths
Selinger, Mario Schkolnick, Donald R. Slutz, Irving L. Traiger,
Bradford
W. Wade and Robert A. Yost
Anatomy of a Database System, Sections 1-3
Hellerstein & Stonebraker (in textbook). No summary required
Optional Reading: The Design and Implementation of Ingres
Michael Stonebraker, Eugene Wong, Peter Kreps and Gerald Held.
|
Th 9/9
|
Concurrency
Control and Recovery, M. Franklin, in "The Computer Science and
Engineering Handbook", 1997. Read only sections 1 through 3.1.1
(although we will cover all of
it eventually). No summary required.
Optional: Pages 159-173 of Gray and
Reuter's Transaction Processing: Concepts and Techniques,
Morgan-Kaufmann, 1993. Available outside 685 Soda.
|
|
|
| Tu 9/13
|
Machine-Independent
Virtual Memory Management for Paged Uniprocessor
and Multiprocessor Architectures
Rashid, Tavanian, Young, Golub, Baron, Black, Bolosky and Chew
|
| Th 9/15 |
Virtual Memory Primitives for User Programs
Appel and Li
Lightweight
Recoverable Virtual Memory
M. Satyanarayanan, Henry H. Mashburn, Puneet Kumar, David C. Steere,
and James J. Kistler
|
| Tu 9/20
| The
Multics Virtual Memory: Concepts and Design
Bensoussan, Clingen and Daley
|
| Th 9/22 |
|
| Tu 9/27 |
Xen and the Art of Virtualization
P. Barham, B. Dragovic, K Fraser, S. Hand, T. Harris, A. Ho, R. Neugebauer, I. Pratt and A. Warfield.
Are Virtual Machine Monitors Microkernels Done Right? S. Hand, A. Warfield, K. Fraser, E. Kotsovinos, D. Magenheimer.
(likely but tentative: Steve Hand guest lecture).
|
Part 3: Persistent Storage
|
| Th 9/29 |
Principles of Transaction-Oriented Database Recovery Computing
Surveys 15(4): 287-317 (1983). In textbook, read Sections 1 and 2.
Theo Haerder & Andreas Reuter
The
Design of the POSTGRES Storage Manager
M. Stonebraker |
| Tu 10/4
|
A Fast File
System for UNIX
McKusick, Joy, Leffler and Fabry
The
Design and Implementation of a
Log-Structured File System
Rosenblum and Ousterhout (229K) |
| Th 10/6 |
ARIES: A
Transaction Recovery Method
Supporting Fine-Granularity Locking and Partial Rollbacks Using
Write-ahead Logging, 2-up
version
C. Mohan et al. (in Red Book) |
| Tu 10/11 |
Logging and recovery wrapup. |
| Th 10/13 |
The
HP AutoRAID Hierarchical Storage System [My temporary local
copy, 2-up
version]
Wilkes, Golding, Staelin and Sullivan |
Part 4: Locking and Consistency
|
| Tu 10/18 |
Experience
with Processes
and Monitors in Mesa
Butler Lampson and David Redell
|
| Th 10/20 |
Granularity of Locks and Degrees of Consistency in a
Shared Database
Gray et al. (Section I-II, pp. 173-193 in red book, copies
outside 685)
Optional reading:
Generalized Isolation Levels
Atul Adya, Barbara Liskov, Patrick O'Neil. |
| Tu 10/25 |
On
Optimistic Methods for Concurrency
Control
Kung and Robinson
Concurrency
Control
Performance Modeling: Alternatives and Implications
Agrawal et al. |
|
|
Th 10/27
|
Query
Evaluation Techniques for Large Databases , Intro and Section
1 ONLY -- no summary required
Goetz Graefe
Join
Processing in Database
Systems with Large Main Memories[in Red Book]
L. D. Shapiro |
| Tu 11/1 |
Access
Path Selection in a
Relational Database Management System [all new version!] [in
Red Book]
Selinger, Astrahan, Chamberlain, Lorie & Price
The Volcano Optimizer Generator: Extensibility and Efficient Search Graefe and McKenna.
Optional reading:
Grammar-like Functional Rules for Representing Query Optimization Alternatives. G. Lohman [in Red Book]
|
| Th 11/3 |
Encapsulation
of Parallelism in the
Volcano Query Processing System
Goetz Graefe
Eddies:
Continuously Adaptive Query Processing
Joseph M. Hellerstein and Ron Avnur |
| Tu 11/8 |
The
Click Modular Router
Kohler, Morris, Chen, Jannotti and Kaashoek
|
Part 6: Threads and Scheduling
|
| Th 11/10 |
Cooperative Task Management without Manual Stack Management.
Adya, Howell, Theimer, Bolosky, and Douceur.
Capriccio: Scalable Threads for Internet Services.
von Behren,
Condit, Zhou, Necula, and Brewer.
Optional reading: On the Duality of Operating System Structures.
Lauer and Needham.
Optional reading: John Ousterhout's 1996 slides on "Why threads are a bad idea"
|
| Tu 11/15 |
Lottery Scheduling: Flexible Proportional-Share Resource Management
Waldspurger and Wiehl |
| Th 11/17 |
First class user-level threads.
B. D. Marsh, M. L. Scott, T. J. LeBlanc, and
E. P. Markatos.
Scheduler
Activations
Anderson, Bershad, Lazowska and Levy
Optional reading:
The Structuring of Systems Using Upcalls.
Clark
|
|
|
Tu 11/22 |
Congestion
Avoidance
and Control [PDF]
Van Jacobson
TCP
Congestion Control with a Misbehaving Receiver
Savage, Cardwell, Wetherall and T. Anderson |
| Th 11/24 |
Thanksgiving holiday. |
Tu 11/29
|
Layered multiplexing considered harmful
D. Tennenhouse
Architectural Considerations for a New Generation of Protocols"
Clark and Tennenhouse
|
| Thu 12/1 |
Active Messages: A Mechanism for Integrated Communication and Control
von Eicken, Culler, Goldstein, and Schauser
U-Net: A User-Level Network Interface for Parallel and Distributed
Computing
If you have problems with the postscript: PDF
from the ACM
Basu, Buch, Vogels, and von Eicken
|
|
|
| Tu 12/6 |
Implementing
Declarative Overlays. Loo et al.
|
| Th 12/8 |
Final Lecture
Hints
for Computer System Design
Butler Lampson. [No summary required]
What Next? A Dozen Information-Technology Research Goals. Jim Gray. [No summary required] |
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