CS594 -- Notes and Papers

January 11, 1996

January 16, 1996 -- Uniprocessor Checkpointing

• T. Tannenbaum and M. Litzkow, ``The Condor Distributed Processing System'', Dr. Dobb's Journal, #225, Feb, 1995, pp. 40-48.

January 18, 1996 -- More Uniprocessor Checkpointing

• B. A. Kingsbury and J. T. Kline, ``Job and Process Recovery in a UNIX-based Operating System'', Usenix Winter Technical Conference, January, 1989, pp. 355-364.
• T. J. Killian, ``Processes as Files'', Usenix Summer Technical Conference, June, 1984, 203-207.

January 23, 1996 -- Class Cancelled

January 25, 1996 -- Incremental Checkpointing

• S. I. Feldman and C. B. Brown, ``IGOR: A system for Program Debugging via Reversible Execution'', ACM SIGPLAN Notices, Workshop on Parallel and Distributed Debugging, 24(1), January, 1989, pp. 112-123.

January 30, 1996 -- Copy-on-write/Memory Exclusion

• K. Li, J. F. Naughton and J. S. Plank, ``Low-Latency, Concurrent Checkpointing for Parallel Programs'', IEEE Transactions on Parallel and Distributed Systems, 5(8), August, 1994, pp. 874--879.

February 1, 1996 -- Libckpt

• J. S. Plank, M. Beck, G. Kingsley and K. Li, ``Libckpt: Transparent Checkpointing under Unix'', Conference Proceedings, Usenix Winter 1995 Technical Conference, New Orleans, LA, January, 1995, pp. 213--223.

February 6, 1996 -- Class cancelled due to snow

February 8, 1996 -- Compiler Assisted Techniques for Checkpointing

• C-C. J. Li and W. K. Fuchs, ``CATCH -- Compiler-Assisted Techniques for Checkpointing'', 20th International Symposium on Fault Tolerant Computing, 1990, pp. 74-81.

February 13, 1996 -- Fast Incremental Checkpoint Compression

• J. S. Plank, J. Xu and R. H. B. Netzer, ``Compressed Differences: An Algorithm for Fast Incremental Checkpointing'', Submitted for publication, University of Tennessee Technical Report CS-95-302, August, 1995.

February 15, 1996 -- Uniprocessor Tools for Fault-Tolerance

• M. Russinovich and Z. Segall, ``Fault-Tolerance for Off-The-Shelf Applications and Hardware'', 25th International Symposium on Fault Tolerant Computing, 1995, pp. 67--71.
• Y. Huang, C. Kintala and Y-M. Wang, ``Software Tools and Libraries for Fault-Tolerance'', IEEE Technical Committee on Operating Systems and Application Environments, Special Issue on Fault-Tolerance Winter, 1995.

February 20, 1996 -- Compiler-Assisted Memory Exclusion

• M. Beck, J. S. Plank and G. Kingsley, ``Compiler-Assisted Checkpointing'', Technical Report CS-94-269, University of Tennessee, December, 1994

February 22, 1996 -- No class

February 27, 1996 -- Discussion of Yuan Ma's talk

February 29, 1996 -- RAID

• M. Holland, G. A. Gibson and D. P. Siewiorek ``Fast, On-Line Failure Recovery in Redundant Disk Arrays'', 23th International Symposium on Fault Tolerant Computing, 1993, pp. 422--431.

March 5, 1996 -- Discussion of John Lin's talk

March 7, 1996 -- Disk Modelling

• C. Ruemmler and J. Wilkes, ``Modelling Disks'', Technical Report HPL-93-68, Computer Systems Laboratory, Hewlett Packard, July, 1993.

March 12, 1996 -- Discussion of Trent Jaeger's talk

March 14, 1996 -- More File Systems

• J. H. Hartman and J. K. Ousterhout, ``The Zebra Striped Network File System'', Operating Systems Review, 27(5), (SOSP-13), December, 1993, pp. 29-43.