Contents:

Machine Architecture
Kernel Structure
Kernel Interfaces
Communication Interfaces
Performance Analysis
I/O Execution Environments
Fault Tolerance I
Fault Tolerance II
Storage Interfaces
Memory Management

Machine Architecture

Title = Netstation Architecture: Multi-Gigabit Workstation Network Fabric
Author = G. G. Finn and P. Mockapetris
Conference = InterOp 1994
URL = file://isi.edu/atomic-doc/Netstation.Interop.1994.ps
Info = http://www.isi.edu/netstation/

Title = A practical implementation of the data base machine-Teradata DBC/1012
Author = R. Sloan
Proceedings of the Twenty-Fifth Hawaii International Conference on System Sciences
Date = Jan. 1992
URL = papers/teradata-DBC.pdf

Title = A Case for Networks of Workstations: NOW
Author = T. Anderson, D. Culler, D. Patterson, and the NOW Team
Journal = IEEE Micro
Date = Feb. 1995
URL = http://now.CS.Berkeley.EDU/Case/case.ps
Info = http://now.CS.Berkeley.EDU/Papers2/

Title = The SGI Origin: a ccNUMA highly scalable server
Author = J. Laudon, D. Lenoski
Conference = 24th Annual International Symposium on Computer Architecture. (ISCA '97)
Title = May 1997
URL = http://www.sgi.com/origin/images/isca.pdf
Info = http://www.sgi.com/origin/tech_info.html

Title = Evaluation of Architectural Support for Global Address-Based Communication in Large Scale Parallel Machines
Author = A. Krishnamurthy, K. Schauser, C. Scheiman, R. Wang, D. Culler, and K. Yelick
Conference = Architectural Support for Programming Languages and Operating Systems
Date = 1996
URL = http://lambda.cs.yale.edu/~arvind/papers/asplos96.ps  

Kernel Structure

Title = The UNIX Time-Sharing System
Author = D. Richie and K. Thompson
Journal = Communications of the ACM 17(7)
URL = http://www.cs.bell-labs.com/who/dmr/cacm.ps
Date = Jul. 1974

Title = QNX System Architecture
Read Chapters 1-4
Author = QNX Software Systems
Date = October 1997
URL = http://www.qnx.com/literature/qnx_sysarch/index.html
 

Title = The Inferno Operating System
Author = S. Dorward, R. Pike, D. Presotto, D. Ritchie, H. Trickey and P. Winterbottom
Journal = Bell Labs Technical Journal
Date = Winter 1997
URL = http://www.lucent.com/ideas/perspectives/bltj/winter_97/pdf/paper01.pdf
Info = http://www.lucent-inferno.com/Pages/Developers/Documentation/White_Papers/index.html

Kernel Interfaces

Author= Roca, V.; Braun, T.; Diot, C.
Title = Demultiplexed architectures: a solution for efficient STREAMS-based communication stacks.
Journal = IEEE Network, vol.11, (no.4)
Date = July-Aug. 1997
URL = ftp://ftp-sop.inria.fr/rodeo/diot/ieee-networks-us.ps.gz
URL = http://ielimg.ihs.com/iel3/65/13138/00598456.pdf

Author= B. Welch
Title= A Comparison of the Vnode and Sprite File System Architectures
Conference = USENIX File System Workshop, 1992
Date = 1992
URL = ftp://ftp.cs.berkeley.edu/ucb/sprite/papers/vnode-vs-sprite.ps
Info = http://www.cs.berkeley.edu/projects/sprite/sprite.papers.html

Title = A scalable and explicit event delivery mechanism for UNIX.
Author = G. Banga, J. Mogul, P. Druschel.
Conference = In the Proceedings of the USENIX 1999 Technical Conference
Date = June 1999.
URL = http://www.cs.rice.edu/~gaurav/papers/usenix99.ps
Info = http://www.cs.rice.edu/CS/Systems/ScalaServer/  

Communication Interfaces

Author = C. Dalton, G. Watson, D. Banks, C. Calamvokis, A. Edwards, J. Lumley
Title = Afterburner (network-independent card for protocols)
Journal = IEEE Network, vol.7, (no.4)
Date = July 1993.
URL = papers/afterburner.pdf

Title = An Implementation and Analysis of the Virtual Interface Architecture
Author = P. Buonadonna, A. Geweke, D. Culler
Conference = SuperComputing 98
Date = Nov. 1998
URL = http://www.cs.berkeley.edu/~philipb/papers/SC98/sc98_html/index.htm

Title = Two Virtual Memory Mapped Network Interface Designs
Author = M. Blumrich, C. Dubnicki, E. Felten, K. Li and M. Mesarina
Conference = Proceedings of Hot Interconnects II Symposium
Date = August 1994
URL = http://www.cs.princeton.edu/shrimp/Papers/hotIC94VMMC.ps
Info = http://www.cs.princeton.edu/shrimp/html/all_papers.html

Title = U-Net: A User-Level Network Interface for Parallel and Distributed Computing
Author = A. Basu, V. Buch, W. Vogels, T. von Eicken.
Conference = Proceedings of the 15th ACM Symposium on Operating Systems Principles (SOSP)
Date = December 3-6, 1995
URL = http://www.cs.cornell.edu/U-Net/papers/sosp.pd
Info = http://www.cs.cornell.edu/tve/papers-uni/papers-uni.html

Title = Remote Queues: Exposing Network Queues for Atomicity and Optimization
Author = E. Brewer, F. Chong, L. T. Liu, J. Kubiatowicz, and S D. Sharma.
Conference = SPAA '95
URL = http://www.cs.berkeley.edu/~kubitron/papers/alewife/pdf/remote-queues.pdf  

Performance Analysis

Title = LogP: Towards a Realistic Model of Parallel Computation
Author = D. E. Culler, R. M. Karp, D. A. Patterson, A. Sahay, K. E. Schauser, E. Santos, R. Subramonian, and T. von Eicken
Conference = Fourth ACM SIGPLAN Symposium on Principles and Practice of Parallel Programming
Date = May 199
URL = http://www.cs.berkeley.edu/~culler/papers/logp.ps

Title = LogP Performance Assessment of Fast Network Interfaces
Author = D. Culler, L. T. Liu, R. Martin, C. Yoshikawa.
Journal = IEEE Micro
Date = Feb. 1996
URL = http://now.CS.Berkeley.EDU/Papers/Papers/Logp_Micro.ps

Title = User-Space Communication: A Quantitative Study
Author = S. Araki, A. Bilas, C. Dubnicki, J. Edler, K. Konishi and J. Philbin
Conference = Supercomputing 98
Date = Nov. 1998
URL = http://www.cs.princeton.edu/shrimp/Papers/sc98USC.ps

Title = LogGP: Incorporating Long Messages into the LogP model - One step closer towards a realistic model for parallel computation
Author = A. Alexandrov, M. Ionescu, K. E. Schauser, and C. Scheiman
Conference = 7th Annual Symposium on Parallel Algorithms and Architectures (SPAA'95)
Date = July 1995
URL = http://www.cs.ucsb.edu/TRs/TRCS95-09.html

Title = Modeling and Optimizing Communication Pipelines
Author = R. Y. Wang, A. Krishnamurthy, R. P. Martin, T. E. Anderson, D. E. Culler
Conference = ACM SIGMETRICS Conference on Measurement and Modeling of Computer Systems
URL = http://www.cs.princeton.edu/~rywang/berkeley/papers/pipeline/  

I/O Execution Environments

Title = SPINE: An Operating System for Intelligent Network Adapters
Author = M. E. Fiuczynski, R. P. Martin, B. N. Bershad, D. E. Culler
Technical Report = UW TR-98-08-01
Date = August 1998
URL = http://www.cs.washington.edu/research/spine/reports/index.html

Title = User Customization of Virtual Network Interfaces with U-Net/SLE
Author = D. Oppenheimer and M. Welsh
Date = February 12, 1998
Technical Report = UCB CSD-98-995
URL = http://cs-tr.cs.cornell.edu:80/Dienst/UI/1.0/Display/ncstrl.ucb/CSD-98-995

Applications

Title = Manageability, Availability and Performance in Porcupine: A Highly Scalable Internet Mail Service
Author = Y. Saito, B. Bershad, and H. Levy.
Conference = To appear in SOSP
Date = May 1999
URL = papers/porcupine.ps
Info = http://www.porcupine.cs.washington.edu

Title = The Architectural Costs of Streaming I/O: A Comparison of Workstations, Clusters, and SMPs
Author = R. Arpaci-Dusseau, A. Arpaci-Dusseau, D. Culler, J. Hellerstein, D. Patterson
Conference = HPCA 4
Date = February 1-4, 1998
URL = http://www.cs.berkeley.edu/~remzi/Postscript/hpca98.ps

Title = Clustered Services with Distributed State
Conference = Qualifying Exam Proposal
Author = Steven D. Gribble
Date = 1999
URL = http://www.cs.berkeley.edu/~gribble/papers/quals/sdds-cluster.ps.gz

Fault Tolerance I

Title = An introduction to Six Sigma with a design example.
Author = White, R.V.
Conference = Seventh Annual Applied Power Electronics Conference and Exposition (APEC '92)
Date = Feb 1992
URL = papers/sixsigma.pdf

Author = Gray, J.
Titile = Why do computers stop and what can be done about it?
Conference = Proceedings Fifth Symposium on Reliability in Distributed Software and Database Systems
Date = Jan. 1986.

Title = A census of Tandem system availability between 1985 and 1990.
Author = Gray, J.
Conference = IEEE Transactions on Reliability
URL = papers/tandem-survey.pdf  

Fault Tolerance II

Author = Borg, A.; Blau, W.; Graetsch, W.; Herrmann, F.; Oberle, W.
Title = Fault tolerance under UNIX.
Journal = ACM Transactions on Computer Systems
Volume = vol.7, (no.1)
Data = Feb. 1989.
Pages = 1-24

Title = Hive: fault containment for shared-memory multiprocessors
Author = J. Chapin, M. Rosenblum, S. Devine, T. Lahiri, D. Teodosiu, and A. Gupta
Conference = 15th ACM Symposium on Operating Systems Principles
Date = December 1995
URL = ftp://www-flash.stanford.edu/pub/hive/SOSP95-hive.ps
Info = http://www-flash.stanford.edu:80/Hive/hive.html

Author = S. Kleiman, S. Schoenthal, A. Rowe, S. Rodrigues, A. Benjamin
Title = Using NUMA Interconnects to Implement Highly Available File Server Appliances
Journal = IEEE Micro
Date = Jan.-Feb. 1999
URL = http://www01.netapp.com/technology/level3/1004.html
Info = http://www01.netapp.com/technology/architecture.html

Storage Interfaces

Author = J. Hartman, I. Murdock, T. Spalink.
Title = The Swarm Scalable Storage System
Journal = Proceedings of the 19th IEEE International Conference on Distributed Computing Systems,
Date = June 1999
URL = http://www.cs.arizona.edu/swarm/papers/icdcs99.ps
Info = http://www.cs.arizona.edu/swarm/ Storage Interfaces

Author = R. Y. Wang, T. E. Anderson, D. A. Patterson.
Title = Virtual Log Based File Systems for a Programmable Disk.
Conference = Proc. Third Symposium on Operating Systems Design and Implementation.
Date = February 1999
URL = http://www.cs.princeton.edu/~rywang/berkeley/papers/idisk/idisk.ps
Info = http://www.cs.princeton.edu/~rywang/mimdraid/

Title = Improving Long-term File System Read Performance
Conference = Qualifying Exam Proposal
Author = Drew Roselli
Date = July 1999
URL = papers/drew_quals.ps

Title = Petal: Highly-Available, Scalable Network Storage
Author = E. Lee and C. Thekkath.
Conference = ASPLOS 96
URL = http://www.research.digital.com/SRC/personal/Ed_Lee/Papers/asplos96.ps
Info = http://www.research.digital.com/SRC/personal/Ed_Lee/Petal/petal.html

Title = The Global File System.
Author = S. R. Soltis, T. M. Ruwart, M. T. O'Keefe.
Conference = Proceedings of the Fifth NASA Goddard Space Flight Center Conference on Mass Storage Systems and Technologies.
URL = http://gfs.lcse.umn.edu/pubs/nasa96.ps
Info = http://gfs.lcse.umn.edu

Title = Frangipani: A Scalable Distributed File System
Author = C. Thekkath, T. Mann, and E. Lee.
Conference = SOSP 16
Date =
URL = http://www.research.digital.com/SRC/personal/thekkath/frangipani/frangipani.acmcopyright.ps
Info = http://www.research.digital.com/SRC/personal/thekkath/frangipani/home.html

Title = Serverless Network File Systems
Author = T. Anderson, M. Dahlin, J. Neefe, D. Patterson, D. Roselli, R. Wang.
Conference = SOSP 15
URL = http://now.CS.Berkeley.EDU/Papers/Papers/sosp95.ps
Info = http://now.CS.Berkeley.EDU/Papers2

Memory Management

Title = Using Embedded Network Processors to Implement Global Memory Mangement in a Workstation Cluster.
Author = Y. Coady, J. S. Ong, and M. J. Feeley.
Conference = Proceedings of the IEEE Symposium on High Performance Distributed Computing,
Date = August 1999
Info = http://www.cs.ubc.ca/spider/feeley/pubs.html

Title = High-Speed Data Paths in Host-Based Routers
Author = S. Walton, A. Hutton, and J. Touch
Journal = IEEE Computer
Date = Nov. 1998
URL = http://www.isi.edu/touch/pubs/computer-peer98.ps
Info = http://www.isi.edu/touch/pubs/

Author = Druschel and L. L. Peterson.
Title = Fbufs: A high-bandwidth cross-domain transfer facility
Conference = Proceedings of the Fourteenth ACM Symposium on Operating Systems Principles (SOSP)
Date = Dec. 1993.
URL = ftp://ftp.cs.arizona.edu/xkernel/Papers/fbuf.ps