Distributed OS: Winter 2023

Course Outline

Here is the course outline.

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"

January 9, 2023

Introduction

January 11, 2023

Designing a distributed operating system

January 16, 2023

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.