CS 535 Advanced Operating Systems WPI, Spring 2003
Craig E. Wills Presentations
Monday, March 10, 2003

Presentations

As part of the course each student will be making a presentation centered around the his or her class project. The main idea is to present the highlights of the project, as seen by the presentor, and to moderate discussion that arises concerning the project and the issues it raises. A good presentation will summarize the main points of the project, synthesize the various pieces of work examined and bring up discussion issues. It should be obvious from the presentation that the student has read the references and understands the issues.

Students should plan on a 30 minute presentation. This time includes questions and discussion so be sure and allow time for these activities. The following shows the schedule for each presentation.

In terms of weekly assignments, students giving a presentation do not have to turn in any reviews for that week. Students not giving a presentation for a particular week are required to turn in one paper review--either from the set of papers related to the topic for that week or one of the student's choosing.

Schedule

week 10:

3-24.

Roberts, Brian, ``Linux Kernel Developments''
Slides: http://www.cs.wpi.edu/~flicken/cs535/cs535-flicken.html

Demers, Brian, ``An Overview of Distributed RTOS Research''
Slides: http://www.cs.wpi.edu/~cs535/s03/demers.ppt

McGuire, Glenn, ``Transition of Operating System Research to Commodity Applications''
Slides: http://www.cs.wpi.edu/~cs535/s03/glenn/CS535_presentation.html

week 11:

3-31.

Krishnan, Sriram, ``TCP Performance Issues over Wireless Networks''
Slides: http://www.cs.wpi.edu/~cs535/s03/krishnan.ppt

Potnis, Vijay, ``Computational Grid Using Commodity Systems''
Slides: http://www.cs.wpi.edu/~cs535/s03/potnis.ppt

Rajaram, Ramesh, ``A Comparison Study of Process Scheduling in UNIX, Linux and Win2K OSes''
Slides: http://www.cs.wpi.edu/~cs535/s03/rajaram.ppt

Mercado, Edwin, ``Studying the Java Virtual Machine''
Slides: http://www.wpi.edu/~emerado/StudyJVM.ppt

Silva, Asima, Sutherland, Timothy, ``Web Server Load Balancing/Scheduling''
Slides: http://www.cs.wpi.edu/~cs535/s03/silvasutherland.ppt

week 12:

4-7.

Manikkavasaghar, Thiru, ``Understanding Factors that Influence Performance of a Web Server''
Slides: http://www.cs.wpi.edu/~cs535/s03/thiru.ppt

Boni, Rafal, ``Cache Aliasing in the NetBSD Operating System''
Slides: http://www.cs.wpi.edu/~cs535/s03/boni.ppt

Ao, Hong, ``Research on the Scheduling of Beowulf Clusters''
Slides: http://www.wpi.edu/~hongao/cs535.ppt

Davis, Matthew, ``Job Scheduling on Simultaneous Multithreaded Machines''
Slides: http://www.cs.wpi.edu/~cs535/s03/davis.ppt

Weiner, Alexander, ``Investigation of Thread Fairness in the .NET Common Language Runtime''
Slides: http://www.cs.wpi.edu/~cs535/s03/weiner.ppt

week 13:

4-14.

Jiang, Xiaoyan, Ma, Chunling, ``Examining the Internals of the Linux Kernel''

Salota, Rahul, ``Real Time Scheduling in Linux''

Znoj, Chad, ``Scalable Internet Event Notification''
Slides: http://users.wpi.edu/~cznoj/advos/

Chiarella, Joseph, ``Data Synchronization with PDA's''

Stank, Christopher, ``Process Migration for Cluster-Based Operating Systems''
Slides: http://www.parrottech.net/~stanky/cs535.ppt