[Rice University]COMP 520 Presentation Schedule - Fall 2007


Topics are firm, but dates are subject to slight changes.

All students are expected to have read the paper by the time of the presentation, and to actively participate in questioning and discussion.
 
 
Topic
Date
Presenter
"Implementing Remote Procedure Calls"
A.D. Birrell and B.J. Nelson
September 4
Instructor
"The Peregrine High-Performance RPC System"
D.B. Johnson and W. Zwaenepoel
September 6
Instructor
A.D. Birrell et al.
September 11
"Distributed Process Groups in the V Kernel''
D.R. Cheriton and W. Zwaenepoel
September 13

"Time, Clocks, and the Ordering of Events in a Distributed System"
L. Lamport
September 18
Guohui Wang
"Lightweight Causal and Atomic Group Multicast"
K. Birman et al.
September 20

"Understanding the Limitations of Causally and Totally Ordered Communication"
D.R. Cheriton and D. Skeen
September 25
Sara Joiner
"Memory Coherence in Shared Virtual Memory Systems"
K. Li and P. Hudak
September 27

"TreadMarks: Shared Memory Computing on Networks of Workstations"
C. Amza et al.
October 2
Daniel Posada
"Run-Time Support for Distributed Sharing in Safe Languages"
Y. Hu et al.
October 4
Kyle Derr
"Caching in the Sprite Network File System"
M.N. Nelson et al.
October 9

"Scale and Performance in a Distributed File System"
J.H. Howard et al.
October 11

Midterm recess October 15-16 N/A
"Serverless Network File Systems"
T. Anderson et al.
October 18

"End-to-End Arguments in System Design"
Saltzer et al. 
October 23

"Disconnected Operation in the Coda File System"
J. Kistler and M. Satyanarayanan
October 25

"Flexible Update Propagation for Weakly Consistent Replication"
K. Petersen et al.
October 30

"Locality-aware Request Distribution in Cluster-based Network Servers"
V. Pai et al.
November 1
Sara Joiner
"The Effectivenes of Request Redirection on CDN Robustness"
Wang et al.
November 6

"Storage management and caching in PAST, a large scale, persistent peer-to-peer storage utility"
A. Rowstron and P. Druschel.
November 8
Daniel Posada
"Enabling Conferencing Applications on the Internet using an Overlay Multicast Architecture"
Chu et al.
November 13
Guohui Wang
"Epidemic algorithms for replicated database maintenance"
A. Demers et al.
November 15

TBA
November 20

Thanksgiving recess
November 22-23

"The Byzantine Generals Problem"
L. Lamport et al.
November 27
Kyle Derr
"Practical Byzantine Fault Tolerance"
M. Castro and B. Liskov
November 29

Project
December 4
N/A
Project
December 6
N/A