DSM Review, NFS, AFS

Readings

• Jelica Protic et al., "Distributed Shared Memory: Concepts and Systems" (1996)
  This paper reviews work in the area of distributed shared memory.

• Russel Sandberg et al., "Design and Implementation of the Sun Network Filesystem" (1985)
  This is the original NFS paper.

• John H. Howard et al., "Scale and Performance in a Distributed File System" (1988)
  This paper describes AFS and compares it to NFS.

Questions

For the first paper, consider the following: what were the major advances in DSM research? Did these advances change what sort of problems DSM