COMP 620: Graduate Seminar in Computer Systems
Rice University
Fall 2007

Meeting Time and Place

Friday 2:00pm - 3:00pm
Location varies. See schedule below.

Description

This semester, we will study papers from different areas in Computer Systems such as Operating Systems, Networking, Mobile Wireless, File and Storage Systems, Architecture, etc.

To get the most out of COMP620 and learn from the presentation experience, you should assume the paper you are presenting is your own paper. You should therefore prepare the presentation and defend the paper based on your own ideas. You should design your own presentation as you see fit. Ask your advisor to help review your presentation before the seminar. You will also receive feedbacks after the talk. You may use detailed figures (e.g. figures of results) that are hard to reproduce from the paper itself and from online slides, but be sure to acknowledge the source of the material. Always respect the copyright of material from other sources and do not plagiarize. You should not use an existing presentation found on-line. COMP620 is one of the few places where you can hone your presentation skills in a friendly environment. So, put your own personal touch on your presentation and get the most from it!


Seminar Schedule

Class
 Date
 Room
 Paper title
 Presenter
1
 9/21
 DH1070
 Towards Highly reliable Enterprise Network Services via Inference of Multi-level Dependencies Bo
2
 9/28
 DH3092
 Virtual Hierarchies to Support Server Consolidation Jeff
3
 10/5
 DH3076
 Hardware Support for Accelerating Data Movement in Server Platform Mike
4
 10/12
 DH3076
 Weak State Routing for Large Scale Dynamic Networks Yanjun
5
 10/19
 DH3076
 Sinfonia: A New Paradigm for Building Scalable Distributed Systems Zheng
6
 10/26
 DH3076
 TxLinux: Using and Managing Hardware Transactional Memory in the Operating System Kaushik
7
 11/2
 DH3076
 Life, Death, and the Critical Transition: Finding Liveness Bugs in Systems Code Dan
8
 11/9
 DH3076
 Beyond One-third Faulty Replicas in Byzantine Fault Tolerant Systems Guohui
9
 11/16
 DH3076
 Cloud Control with Distributed Rate Limiting Florin
10
 11/30
 DH3076
 Towards Automatic Discovery of Deviations in Binary Implementations with Applications to Error Detection and Fingerprint Generation
Scott
11
 12/7
 DH3076
 Experience distributing objects in an SMMP OS
 Bo

Paper List