Distributed OS: Fall 2021

Course Outline

Here is the course outline.

Using Openstack

The experiences (and potentially your project) will involve using the SCS Openstack cluster:

• How to use Openstack (for COMP 4000/5102)
• SCS Openstack web console (only available from the Carleton network)

Classes

More information will be posted here by the first class.

Note: If you don't have access to the course information on brightspace, please email Prof. Somayaji, you may need to be manually added. (If you're at UofO or you recently added COMP 5102, you probably need to be added manually.) On Brightspace the course should show up as COMP 4000 no matter whether you enrolled in it or COMP 5102.

Readings

September 14, 2021

UNIX

• The UNIX System: Making Computers More Productive (1982), video
• Dennis M. Ritchie and Ken Thompson, "The UNIX Time-Sharing System" (1974)

Note that the video covers the main points of the paper.

September 16, 2021

LOCUS

• Bruce Walker et al., "The LOCUS Distributed Operating System." (1983)

September 21, 2021

NFS

• Russel Sandberg et al., "Design and Implementation of the Sun Network Filesystem" (1985)

September 23, 2021

Distributed Shared Memory

• Jelica Protic et al., "Distributed Shared Memory: Concepts and Systems" (1996)

September 28, 2021

Plan 9

• Presotto et. al, Plan 9, A Distributed System (1991)
• Pike et al., Plan 9 from Bell Labs (1995)

September 30, 2021

Solaris Zones

• Price & Tucker, "Solaris Zones: Operating System Support for Consolidating Commercial Workloads" (LISA 2004)
• Galvin, "Solaris 10 Containers" (;LOGIN 2005)