CMPSCI 677 Distributed Operating Systems

Suggested Reading List

General Readings

• Overview Papers
1. Andrew S. Tannenbaum and Robbert van Renesse, ``Distributed Operating Systems'', Computing Surveys, Vol. 17, No. 4, Pages 419-470, December 1985
2. E. Levy and A. Silberschatz, ``Distributed File Systems: Concepts and Examples'', ACM Computing Surveys, Vol. 22, No. 4, Pages 321-374, December 1990


• Distributed Computing
1. Jim Basney and Miron Livny, "Deploying a High Throughput Computing Cluster", High Performance Cluster Computing, Rajkumar Buyya, Editor, Vol. 1, Chapter 5, Prentice Hall PTR, May 1999.
• Available at http://www.cs.wisc.edu/condor/publications.html, more information about Condor is available at its homepage http://www.cs.wisc.edu/condor/  
2. The Worldwide Computer. An operating system spanning the Internet would harness the power of millions of the world's networked PCs. Scientific American, February 2002
• Available at http://www.sciam.com/2002/0302issue/0302anderson.html

Readings for Chapter 2 Communication

• Remote Procedure Call
1. Andrew Birrell and Bruce Nelson, Implementing RPCs, ACM Transactions on Computer Systems, Vol. 2, No. 1, Pages 39-59, February 1984.
2. B. Bershad, T. Anderson, E. Lazowska, and H. Levy, ``Lightweight Remote Procedure Call'', Proceedings of the 12th ACM Symposium on Operating Systems Principles, Operating Systems Review, Vol. 23, No. 5, Pages 12-113, December 1989
• Available at http://www.cs.duke.edu/~justin/papers/OperatingSystems/p37-bershad.pdf

Readings for Chapter 3 Processes

• Process and Thread Management
1. Thomas E. Anderson, Edward D. Lazowska, and Henry M. Levy, ``The Performance Implications of Thread Management Alternatives for Shared-Memory Multiprocessors'', IEEE Transactions on Computers, Vol. 38, No. 12, Pages 1631-1644, December 1989


• Scheduling
1. D. L. Black, "Scheduling Support for Concurrency and Parallelism in the Mach Operating System," IEEE Computer, 23, 5, Pages 35-43, May 1990.
• Available here.
• Process Migration
1. F. Douglis and J. Ousterhout, ``Process Migration in the Sprite Operating System'', In Proceedings of the IEEE International Conference on Distributed Computing Systems, Berlin, Germany, Pages 18-25, September 1987
2. M.Theimer, K.Lantz, D.Cheriton, ``Preemptable Remote Execution'', Proceedings of the 10th SOSP, Operating Systems Review, Vol. 19, No. 5, Pages 2-12, December 1985
• Available at http://www.cs.wisc.edu/~bart/739/papers/vkernel.pdf

Readings for Chapter 10: Distributed File Systems

• NFS
  1. NFS Version 4 Papers are here. Read the white paper on this link. The NFS v4 RFC is here.