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For the | For the Protic paper, consider the following: | ||
# What were the major problems addressed in DSM research following Kai Li's dissertation? | |||
# Did these advances change the scope of environments and problems appropriate for DSM? | |||
# Why aren't DSM systems commonly in use today? | |||
For the NFS and AFS papers, consider these questions: | |||
# What were the key design goals of NFS and AFS? | |||
# How well did they achieve their goals? | |||
# What are their limitations? | |||
# How suitable are NFS and AFS in modern small networks? Enterprise networks? Internet-scale applications? Why? | |||
Revision as of 03:08, 6 February 2008
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 Protic paper, consider the following:
- What were the major problems addressed in DSM research following Kai Li's dissertation?
- Did these advances change the scope of environments and problems appropriate for DSM?
- Why aren't DSM systems commonly in use today?
For the NFS and AFS papers, consider these questions:
- What were the key design goals of NFS and AFS?
- How well did they achieve their goals?
- What are their limitations?
- How suitable are NFS and AFS in modern small networks? Enterprise networks? Internet-scale applications? Why?