• Systems Research

Readings

Papers Every Systems Researcher Should Read

Currently in progress. These are my own (Mark) opinion, based on my incredibly limited experience in this domain. When Prof. Alvisi constructs his own list I will add it here.

• Every Paper that has won an SOSP/OSDI Best Paper Award

• Overview of the Hydra Operating System development (1975)

  • Wulf, W., Levin, R., and Pierson, C. 1975. Overview of the Hydra Operating System development. In Proceedings of the Fifth ACM Symposium on Operating Systems Principles (Austin, Texas, United States, November 19 - 21, 1975). SOSP '75. ACM, New York, NY, 122-131. DOI= http://doi.acm.org/10.1145/800213.80650

• Epidemic Algorithms for Replicated Database Management (1987)

  • Alan Demers. Dan, Greene, Carl Hauser, Wes Irish, John. Larson, Scott Shenkcr, Howard Sturgis, Dan Swinehart, and Doug Terry

• The Working Set Model for Program Behavior (1967)

• Safe Kernel Extensions Without Run-Time Checking (1996)

• Time, Clocks and the Ordering of Events in a Distributed System (1978)

• Implementing Fault-Tolerant Services using the State Machine Approach: a tutorial (1990)