Research Seminar

Fall 2002

• M. Frans Kaashoek, MIT, Peer-to-Peer Computing Research - A Fad?
• Damien Watkins, Project 42, An Introduction to the Shared Source Common Language Infrastructure (SSCLI)
• Vincent Freeh, University of Notre Dame, The Modify-on-Access Filesystem

• Susan Eggers, Randy Katz, "Evaluating the Performance of Four Snooping Cache Coherency Protocols", ISCA'89 (Slides by Anita Nagarajan)
• "Preemption Handling and Scalability of Feedback DVS-EDF" by Y. Zhu and F. Mueller in Workshop on Compilers and Operating Systems for Low Power, Sep 2002 (Slides by Y. Zhu)
• "Detecting Memory Performance Bottlenecks via Binary Rewriting" by J. Marathe and F. Mueller in Workshop on Binary Translation, Sep 2002 (Slides by J. Marathe)
• Tzi-cker Chiueh, Ganesh Venkitachalam and Prashant Pradhan, Integrating segmentation and paging protection for safe, efficient and transparent software extensions, SOSP 1999 (Slides by P. Kasodan)
• Vasanth Bala, Evelyn Duesterwald, and Sanjeev Banerjia. Dynamo: A Transparent Dynamic Optimization System. Proceedings of the SIGPLAN Conference on Programming Language Design and Implementation (PLDI '00), Vancouver, Canada, June 2000. (Slides by K.Spry)
• Fault Tolerant Distributed Systems - A survey of the approaches by
  • Validation and evaluation of a software solution for fault tolerant distributed synchronization by Ballarini, P.; Bernardi, S.; Donatelli, S. in Dependable Systems and Networks, 2002
  • A fault tolerant algorithm for distributed mutual exclusion by Chang, Y.-I.; Singhal, M.; Liu, M.T. in Reliable Distributed Systems, 1990
  • A fault-tolerant strategy for hierarchical control in distributed computing systems by Goyer, P.; Momtahan, P.; Selic, B. in Fault-Tolerant Computing, 1990
  • Secure and fault-tolerant voting in distributed systems by Hardekopf, B.; Kwiat, K.; Upadhyaya, S. in Aerospace Conference, 2001
  • A O(log/sub 2/ n) fault-tolerant distributed mutual exclusion algorithm based on open-cube structure by Helary, J.M.; Mostefaoui, A. in Distributed Computing Systems, 1994
  • Fault Tolerance for Token-based Synchronization Protocols by F. Mueller in IPDPS, 2001
  • Managing Dependencies - A Key Problem in Fault-Tolerant Distributed Algorithms by Edgar Nett, Michael Mock, Peter Theisohn in International Symposium on Fault-Tolerant Computing, 1997
  • A fault tolerant protocol as an extension to a distributed mutual exclusion algorithm by Revannaswamy, V.; Bhatt, P.C.P. in Parallel and Distributed Systems, 1997
  • Optimal fault-tolerant resource allocation in dynamic distributed systems by Injong Rhee in Parallel and Distributed Processing, 1995
  • Fault tolerant distributed shared memory algorithms by Stumm, M.; Songnian Zhou. in Parallel and Distributed Processing, 1990
  (Slides by Nirmit Desai)
• Timing anomalies in dynamically scheduled microprocessors by Lundqvist, T.; Stenstrom, P. Page(s): 12-21, RTSS'99 (Slides by Kaustubh Patil)