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* [http://homeostasis.scs.carleton.ca/~soma/distos/2008-01-21/walker-locus.pdf Bruce Walker et al., "The LOCUS Distributed Operating System." (1983)]
* [http://homeostasis.scs.carleton.ca/~soma/distos/2008-01-21/walker-locus.pdf Bruce Walker et al., "The LOCUS Distributed Operating System." (1983)]
* [http://homeostasis.scs.carleton.ca/~soma/distos/2008-01-28/ousterhout-sprite.pdf John Ousterhout et al., "The Sprite Network Operating System" (1987)]
* [http://homeostasis.scs.carleton.ca/~soma/distos/2008-01-28/ousterhout-sprite.pdf John Ousterhout et al., "The Sprite Network Operating System" (1987)]


===September 26, 2017===
===September 26, 2017===

Revision as of 00:49, 15 September 2017

Course Outline

Here is the course outline. It should see only minor modifications during the semester.

Assigned Readings

September 12, 2017

The Early Internet:

The Mother of All Demos:

September 14, 2017

The Alto:

September 19, 2017

Optional: Browse around the Multicians website.

September 21, 2017

September 26, 2017

September 28, 2017

Project Help

To develop your literature review or research proposal, start with a single research paper that you find interesting and that is related to distributed operating systems in some way.

To begin selecting a paper, I suggest that you:

  • search on Google Scholar using keywords relating to your interests, and/or
  • browse the proceedings of major conferences that publish work related to distributed operating systems.

The main operating system conferences are OSDI and ACM SOSP (sosp.org,ACM DL). Note that not all the work here is on distributed operating systems! Also, many other conferences publish some work related to distributed operating systems, e.g. NSDI.

To help you write a literature review or the background of a research paper, read the following: