›› General Information

This is a weekly seminar for discussing recent, interesting papers in the systems and networking area, covering topics in networking, operating systems, distributed systems, architecture and databases.  Each week,  we will discuss two papers selected from recent/upcoming conferences.  Each presenter will prepare a 30 minute presentation to cover an overview of the paper, followed by a group discussion on the merits of the paper and a short brainstorming.

In this spring quarter, our seminar will focus on papers from SOSP 2005 (10 weeks, 10 papers).  We will meet every Thur. noon-1:00pm at CS conference room, Engineering I. Please bring you own drink and food.

Students can sign up for 1 point of course credit. Only requirement for course credit is to present at least one paper and regular attendance. Of course, everyone is welcome to just sit in and attend sessions selectively.

›› Presentation schedule

  1. 4/13/06: Heather Zheng,  THINC: A Virtual Display Architecture for Thin-Client Computing. [paper] 
  2. 4/20/06:  Irfan Sheriff,  RaceTrack: Efficient Detection of Data Race Conditions via Adaptive Tracking [paper]
  3. 4/27/06:  Lamia Youseff,  Speculative Execution in a Distributed File System [paper]
  4. 5/04/06:  Shaomei Wu,  Vigilante: End-to-End Containment of Internet Worms [paper]
  5. 5/11/06:  Lamia Youseff,  Idle Time Scheduling with Preemption Intervals [paper]
  6. 5/18/06:  Hui Dai, The Taser Intrusion Recovery System
  7. 5/25/06:  Krishna Puttaswamy, FS2: Dynamic Data Replication in Free Disk Space for Improving Disk Performance
  8. 6/1/06:  Ashish Sharma, MapReduce: Simplified Data Processing on Large Clusters