Presentations will be graded based on apparent understanding of the material in the paper, presentation style, and entertainment value. All students will be expected to make paper presentations. To avoid being assigned a paper that you do not want to present, you should volunteer early for your paper selection. If a paper has not yet been assigned a student presenter and you would like to volunteer to present it, just send email to the instructor to sign up. Some useful references on research, writing, and giving a talk are Collected Advice on Research and Writing and How to Give a Talk. For an entertaining talk on the general academic research enterprise, take a look at How to Have a Bad Career in Academia by Dave Patterson.

In creating your presentations, you are free to use any additional material beyond the content of the paper. For instance, you can reference other papers that may discuss similar work. However, the presentation should represent your own viewpoint, and you should clearly cite any other work you use for your presentations. Failure to make proper citations will adversely affect your presentation grade.

The class will be held in the CS Conference Room which provides an LCD projector that can be attached to a local PC or a student's laptop for presentations. We strongly encourage you to use the presentation equipment available there. You may also use other presentation media, but you will be responsible for providing your own A/V equipment.

September 8 - First day of class

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• Alan Jay Smith, "The Task of the Referee", IEEE Computer, Vol. 23, No. 4, April 1990, pp. 65-71.

• Oren Laadan, Dan Phung, and Jason Nieh, ""Transparent Checkpoint-Restart of Distributed Applications on Commodity Clusters", Proceedings of the 2005 IEEE International Conference on Cluster Computing (Cluster 2005), Boston, MA, September 27-30, 2005.
• Shaya Potter and Jason Nieh, "WebPod: Persistent Web Browsing Sessions with Pocketable Storage Devices", Proceedings of the Fourteenth International World Wide Web Conference (WWW 2005), Chiba, Japan, May 10-14, 2005, pp. 603-612.

• Paul Barham, Boris Dragovic, Keir Fraser, Steven Hand, Tim Harris, Alex Ho, Rolf Neugebauer, Ian Pratt, and Andrew Warfield, "Xen and the Art of Virtualization", Proceedings of the Ninetieth ACM Symposium on Operating Systems Principles (SOSP 2003), Bolton Landing, NY, October 19-22, 2003, pp. 164-177.
• Mendel Rosenblum and Tal Garfinkel, "Virtual Machine Monitors: Current Technology and Future Trends", Computer, vol. 38, no. 5, May 2005, pp. 39-47.

• Ramesh Chandra, Nickolai Zeldovich, Constantine Sapuntzakis, and Monica S. Lam, "The Collective: A Cache-Based System Management Architecture", Proceedings of the Second USENIX/ACM Symposium on Networked Systems Design and Implementation (NSDI 2005), Boston, MA, May 2-4, 2005.
• Alex Sherman, Phil Lisiecki, Andy Berkheimer, and Joel Wein, "ACMS: Akamai Configuration Management System", Proceedings of the Second USENIX/ACM Symposium on Networked Systems Design and Implementation (NSDI 2005), Boston, MA, May 2-4, 2005.

• Edmund B. Nightingale, Peter Chen, and Jason Flinn, "Speculative Execution in a Distributed File System", Proceedings of the Twentieth ACM Symposium on Operating Systems Principles (SOSP 2005), Brighton, United Kingdom, October 23-26, 2005.
• Vijayan Prabhakaran, Nitin Agrawal, Lakshmi N. Bairavasundaram, Haryadi S. Gunawi, Andrea C. Arpaci-Dusseau, and Remzi H. Arpaci-Dusseau, "IRON File Systems", Proceedings of the Twentieth ACM Symposium on Operating Systems Principles (SOSP 2005), Brighton, United Kingdom, October 23-26, 2005.

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• Ricardo Baratto, Leo Kim, and Jason Nieh, "THINC: A Virtual Display Architecture for Thin-Client Computing", Proceedings of the Twentieth ACM Symposium on Operating Systems Principles (SOSP 2005), Brighton, United Kingdom, October 23-26, 2005.

• Carl A. Waldspurger, "Memory Resource Management in VMware ESX Server", Proceedings of the Fifth Symposium on Operating Systems Design and Implementation, Boston, Massachusetts, December 9-11, 2002.
• Bogdan Caprita, Wong Chun Chan, Jason Nieh, Clifford Stein, and Haoqiang Zheng, "Group Ratio Round-Robin: O(1) Proportional Share Scheduling for Uniprocessor and Multiprocessor Systems", Proceedings of the 2005 USENIX Annual Technical Conference, Anaheim, CA, April 10-15, 2005, pp. 337-352.

• Butler W. Lampson, "Hints for Computer System Design", Operating Systems Review, Vol. 15, No. 5, October 1983, pp. 33-48.
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• George Candea, Shinichi Kawamoto, Yuichi Fujiki, Greg Friedman, and Armando Fox, "Microreboot - A Technique for Cheap Recovery", Proceedings of the Sixth Symposium on Operating Systems Design and Implementation (OSDI), San Francisco, California, December 6-8, 2004.
• Martin Rinard, Cristian Cadar, Daniel Dumitran, Daniel M. Roy, Tudor Leu, and William S. Beebee, Jr., "Enhancing Server Availability and Security Through Failure-Oblivious Computing", Proceedings of the Sixth Symposium on Operating Systems Design and Implementation (OSDI), San Francisco, California, December 6-8, 2004.

• Sanjay Ghemawat, Howard Gobioff, and Shun-Tak Leung, "The Google File System", Proceedings of the 19th ACM Symposium on Operating Systems Principles, Bolton Landing, New York, October 19-22, 2003.
• Jeffrey Dean and Sanjay Ghemawat, "MapReduce: Simplified Data Processing on Large Clusters", Proceedings of the Sixth Symposium on Operating Systems Design and Implementation (OSDI), San Francisco, California, December 6-8, 2004.