Systems Software Reading Group
The Systems Software Reading Group (SSRG) meets on a weekly basis to discuss both recent and classic research papers in the broad area of systems software.
Systems software can be considered to include specific areas such as operating systems, parallel & distributed systems, mobile systems, systems security, fault-tolerance, middleware systems, virtual machines, file & storage systems, network architecture, autonomic systems, software engineering, run-time systems, etc... SSRG members include both faculty and graduate students.
Historically, the group has been meeting (pretty much non-stop) on a weekly basis for many years, dating back to pre-millenium times (mid-1990s or perhaps earlier). We meet on a weekly basis on Tuesdays, 4-6pm in BA4287. New members are always welcomed.
Next Paper
Task activity vectors: A New Metric for Temperature-Aware Scheduling
EuroSys 2008
http://portal.acm.org/citation.cfm?doid=1352592.1352594
Apr/22/2008
Previously Discussed
Cutting Corners: Workbench Automation for Storage Service Benchmarking
USENIX 2008
http://www.cs.duke.edu/~shivam/shivam-corners07.pdf
Apr/08/2008
Learning from Mistakes - A Comprehensive Study on Real World Concurrency Bug Characteristics
ASPLOS 2008
http://opera.cs.uiuc.edu/paper/asplos122-lu.pdf
Apr/01/2008
On Multi-level Exclusive Caching: Offline Optimality and Why Promotions Are Better Than Demotions
FAST 2008
http://www.usenix.org/events/fast08/tech/full_papers/gill/gill.pdf
Mar/18/2008
DejaView: A Personal Virtual Computer Recorder
SOSP 2008
http://www.sosp2007.org/papers/sosp016-laadan.pdf
Mar/04/2008
Understanding and Visualizing Full Systems with Data Flow Tomography
ASPLOS 2008
http://www.cs.ucsb.edu/~shashimc/papers/ASPLOS08-SysTomography.pdf
Feb/26/2008
Triage: Diagnosing Production Run Failures at the User's Site
SOSP 2008
http://www.sosp2007.org/papers/sosp063-tucek.pdf
Feb/05/2008
Hardware Counter Driven On-the-Fly Request Signatures
ASPLOS 2008
http://www.cs.rochester.edu/~kshen/papers/asplos2008.pdf
Jan/22/2008
The Design and Implementation of Microdrivers
ASPLOS 2008
http://www.cs.rutgers.edu/~vinodg/papers/asplos2008/asplos2008.pdf
Jan/15/2008
Dynamo: Amazon's Highly Available Key-Value Store
SOSP 2007
http://s3.amazonaws.com/AllThingsDistributed/sosp/amazon-dynamo-sosp2007.pdf
Oct/23/2007
Sinfonia: a new paradigm for building scalable distributed systems
SOSP 2007
http://www.hpl.hp.com/personal/Marcos_Aguilera/papers/sinfonia-aguilera-sosp2007.pdf
Oct/09/2007
Xen and Co: Communication-aware CPU Scheduling for Consolidated Xen-based Hosting Platforms
VEE 2007
http://csl.cse.psu.edu/publications/vee07.pdf
Oct/02/2007
DiskSeen: Exploiting Disk Layout and and Access History to Enhance I/O Prefetch
USENIX 2007
http://www.cse.ohio-state.edu/hpcs/WWW/HTML/publications/papers/TR-07-6.pdf
Sep/25/2007
PinOS: A Programmable Framework for Whole-System Dynamic Instrumentation
VEE 2007
http://www.eecs.harvard.edu/~prash/papers/vee2007/vee2007-paper.pdf
Aug/14/2007
FoxyTechnique: Tricking Operating System Policies with a Virtual Machine Monitor
VEE 2007
http://www.sslab.ics.keio.ac.jp/~boro2/papers/yamada_vee07.pdf
Aug/07/2007
Virtual I/O Scheduler: A Scheduler of Schedulers for Performance Virtualization
VEE 2007
http://doi.acm.org/10.1145/1254810.1254826
Jul/31/2007
Libra: A Library Operating System for a JVM in a Virtualized Execution Environment
VEE 2007
http://domino.research.ibm.com/comm/research_people.nsf/pages/dgrove.vee2007.html/$FILE/vee2007.pdf
Jul/17/2007
Reboots Are for Hardware: Challenges and Solutions to Updating an Operating System on the Fly
USENIX 2007
http://ertos.nicta.com.au/publications/papers/Baumann_AWDKH_07.pdf
Jul/10/2007
Secure File System Versioning at the Block Level
Eurosys 2007
http://www.cs.ubc.ca/~jtwires/wiresj.pdf
Jun/06/2007
Managing Shared L2 Caches on Mlticore Systems in Software (Practice Talk)
WIOSCA'07
http://www.eecg.toronto.edu/~tamda/
May/29/2007
Sweeper: A Lightweight End-to-End System for Defending Against Fast Worms
Eurosys 2007
http://www.cs.cmu.edu/~dbrumley/pubs/sweeper-eurosys07.pdf
May/22/2007
HotOS 2007 Review
HotOS 2007
May/15/2007
Sweeper: A Lightweight End-to-End System for Defending Against Fast Worms (CANCELLED)
Eurosys 2007
http://www.cs.cmu.edu/~dbrumley/pubs/sweeper-eurosys07.pdf
May/08/2007
Practice Talk: Relaxed Determinism: Making Redundant Execution on Multiprocessors Practical
HotOS 2007
May/01/2007
Competitive Prefetching for Concurrent Sequential I/O
EuroSys 2007
http://www.cs.rochester.edu/~kshen/papers/eurosys2007.pdf
Apr/24/2007
Sealing OS Processes to Improve Dpendability and Safety
EuroSys 2007
http://www.eecg.toronto.edu/~tamda/ssrg_papers/56_paper.pdf
Apr/17/2007
Conference Review
EuroSys 2007 in Lisboa, Portugal
Apr/10/2007
Enabling Scalability and Performance in a Large Scale CMP Environment
ACM SIGOPS EuroSys 2007
http://www.eecg.toronto.edu/~livio/ssrg/44_paper.pdf
Apr/03/2007
Thread Clustering: Sharing-Aware Scheduling on SMP-CMP-SMT Multiprocessors
ACM SIGOPS EuroSys 2007
http://www.eecg.utoronto.ca/~tamda/papers/threadclustering.pdf
Mar/13/2007
Container-based Operating System Virtualization: A Scalable, High-Performance Alternative to Hypervisors
ACM SIGOPS EuroSys 2007
http://www.cs.princeton.edu/~mef/research/vserver/paper.pdf
Mar/06/2007
Fine Grained Kernel Logging with KLogger: Experience and Insights
ACM SIGOPS EuroSys 2007
http://www.cs.huji.ac.il/~etsman/papers/Klogger.pdf
Feb/06/2007
SubVirt: Implementing malware with virtual machines
IEEE Symposium on Security and Privacy 2006
http://www.eecs.umich.edu/~pmchen/papers/king06.pdf
Jan/30/2007
CRAMM: Virtual Memory Support for Garbage-Collected Applications
OSDI 2006
http://www.cs.umass.edu/~emery/pubs/06-25.pdf
Jan/23/2007
Stasis: Flexible Transactional Storage
OSDI 2006
http://www.cs.berkeley.edu/~sears/publications/Stasis-OSDI.pdf
Dec/12/2006
The Chubby Lock Service for Loosely-Coupled Distributed Systems
OSDI 2006
http://labs.google.com/papers/chubby-osdi06.pdf
Dec/05/2006
From Uncertainity to Belief: Inferring the Specification Within
OSDI 2006
http://ai.stanford.edu/~ang/papers/osdi06-inferringspecification.pdf
Nov/28/2006
Splitting Interfaces: Making Trust Between Applications and Operating Systems Configurable
OSDI 2006
Oct/31/2006
XFI: Software Guards for System Address Spaces
OSDI 2006
http://research.microsoft.com/users/mbudiu/osdi06.pdf
Oct/24/2006
Operating System Profiling via Latency Analysis
OSDI 2006
http://www.am-utils.org/docs/osprof-osdi2006/osprof.pdf
Oct/10/2006
Rethink the Sync
OSDI 2006
http://www.eecs.umich.edu/~enightin/syncio.pdfOct/03/2006
Bigtable: A Distributed Storage System for Structured Data
OSDI 2006
http://labs.google.com/papers/bigtable-osdi06.pdfSep/26/2006
Splitting Interfaces: Making Trust Between Applications and Operating Systems Configurable
OSDI 2006
http://www.eecg.toronto.edu/~lieAug/08/2006
Virtual Scalability: Charting the Performance of Linux in a Virtual World - Exploring the Scalability of the Xen Hypervisor
Proceedings of the Ottawa Linux Symposium 2006
http://www.linuxsymposium.org/2006/proceedings.phpAug/01/2006
STEPS Towards Cache-Resident Transaction Processing
Very Large Data Bases (VLDB 2004)
http://www.pdl.cmu.edu/PDL-FTP/Database/steps.pdfJul/25/2006
BrowserShield: Vulnerability-Driven Filtering of Dynamic HTML
OSDI 2006
http://research.microsoft.com/~jdunagan/bshieldSubmissionToOSDI06.pdfJul/18/2006