CS856: Topics in Internet Services and Performance: Reading Schedule

Reading Schedule

For each paper (except "Paper Reading Check List", and "How to Read a Research Paper") you must produce a summary of the paper that adheres to the guidlines/outline below (see Summary Outline). Each Summary is limited to 3/4 page 12 point font and must include everything (i.e., your name, paper title, etc.) If two papers are being done in one day both reviews/summaries must be printed on one page (i.e., double sided).
Note: I am extremely serious about the limits and the format of these summaries. If they are not followed precisely you will get no credit for doing them.

List of possible readings (i.e., links to papers can be found here)
Summary Outline (use this)
Friday Jan. 19 (Note: Summaries are only required for the Lampson paper)
- "Paper Reading Check List", Sugih Jamin, jamin@eecs.umich.edu.
- "How to Read a Research Paper", by Spencer Rugaber
- "An Evaluation of the Ninth SOSP Submissions or How (and How Not) to Write a Good Systems Paper", R. Levin, D. Redell, Operating Systems Review, July 1983, pp. 35-40.
- "Hints for Computer System Design", Butler W. Lampson, IEEE Software, 1(1):11-28, January 1984. (also appears in Proc. of the 9th Symposium on Operating Systems Principles, pp. 33-48, October 1983).
Friday Jan 26 (summaries required for all)
Several of the first summaries were > 3/4 of a page See the note above about the formats of the summaries.
- Flash: An Efficient and Portable Web Server.
- SEDA: An Architecture for Well-Conditioned, Scalable Internet Services
- Capriccio: Scalable Threads for Internet Services
Friday Feb 2 (summaries required for all)
- IO-Lite: A Unified I/O Buffering and Caching System
- Lazy Asynchronous I/O For Event-Driven Servers
- Comparing the Performance of Web Server Architectures
Friday Feb 9 (summaries required for all)
- Measuring the Capacity of a Web Server
- Open Versus Closed: A Cautionary Tale
Friday Feb 16 (summaries required for all)
- httperf---A Tool for Measuring Web Server Performance
- Scheduler activations: effective kernel support for the user-level management of parallelism
- Size-based Scheduling to Improve Web Performance
Friday March 2 (Snow Day)
- No class.
Friday March 9 (summaries required for all)
- OpenDHT: A Public DHT Service and Its Uses
- Colyseus: A Distributed Architecture for Online Multiplayer Games
- Xen and the Art of Virtualization
  (It is probably a good idea to read this and the Live Migration paper below together)
Friday March 16 (summaries required for all)
- Client and Feed Characteristics of RSS, A Publish-Subscribe System for Web Micronews.
- Corona: A High Performance Publish-Subscribe System for the World Wide Web,
- Live Migration of Virtual Machines
Friday March 23 (summaries required for all)
Friday March 30 (summaries required for all)

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