Distributed OS: Fall 2021

Course Outline

Here is the course outline.

Experiences

Experience 1, due November 2, 2021
Experience 2, due November 30, 2021

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.

Project Help

To develop a 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:

Harvey, "What Is a Literature Review?" (DOC) (PPT)
Taylor, "The Literature Review: A Few Tips On Conducting It"

Implementation experiences will depend upon your technical background and personal interests. If you have an idea, please discuss with Anil or William as soon as you can.