Reading List (tentative)

Virtualization

Introduction

• The Architecture of Virtual Machines, J Smith, R. Nair, IEEE Computer, May 2005. [pdf]
• Virtual machine monitors: current technology and future trends, M. Rosenblum and T. Garfinkel, IEEE Computer, May 2005.
• Operating System Support for Virtual Machines, S. King, G. Dunlap, and P. Chen, Proc.USENIX 2003
• [Historical Perspective (optional)] The Origin of the VM/370 Time-Sharing System, R. Creasy, IBM Journ. Res. and Dev

VM Architectures

• Xen and the Art of Virtualization, P. Barham, B. Dragovic, K. Fraser, S. Hand, T. Harris, A. Ho, R. Neugebauer, I. Pratt, and A. Warfield, Proc. SOSP 2003
• Complete Computer Simulation: The SimOS Approach M. Rosenblum, S. A. Herrod, E. Witchel, and A. Gupta, IEEE Parallel and Distributed Technology, 1995
• Disco: Running Commodity Operating Systems on Scalable Multiprocessors, E. Bugnion, S. Devine, and M. Rosenblum. Proc. of 16th SOSP, 1997.

VM Mechanisms

• Optimizing the Migration of Virtual Computers, C. Sapuntzakis, R. Chandra, B. Pfaff, J. Chow, M. Lam, and M. Rosenblum, Proc. of OSDI 2002.
• Live Migration of Virtual Machines, C. Clark, K. Fraser, S. Hand, J. Hansen, E. Jul, C. Limpach, I. Pratt, and A. Warfiel Proc. NSDI 2005
• Memory Resource Management in VMWare ESX Server, C. Waldspurger, Proc. of OSDI 2002.
• Optimizing Network Virtualization in Xen, A. Menon, A. Cox, W. Zwaenepoel, Proc. of USENIX 2006
• Staged Deployment in Mirage, an Integrated Software Upgrade Testing and Distribution System, O. Crameri, N. Knezevic, D. Kostic, R. Bianchini, and W. Zwaenepoel, Proc. of 21st SOSP, October 2007.
• DejaView: A Personal Virtual Computer Recorder O. Laadan, R. A. Baratto, D. Phung, S. Potter, and J. Nieh, Proc. of 21st SOSP, October 2007.

SysML: Machine Learning for Utility Computing

Modeling complex systems

• Active and Accelerated Learning of Cost Models for Optimizing Scientific Applications, by P. Shivam, S. Babu, J. Chase. In International Conference on Very Large Data Bases (VLDB), September 2006.
• Learning Application Models for Utility Resource Planning, by P. Shivam, S. Babu, J. Chase. In IEEE International Conference on Autonomic Computing (ICAC), June 2006.

Provisioning

• A Regression-Based Analytic Model for Dynamic Resource Provisioning of Multi-Tier Applications Qi Zhang, Lucy Cherkasova, and Evgenia Smirni, Proc. of ICAC 2007.
• Autonomic Provisioning of Backend Databases in Dynamic Content Web Servers, J. Chen, C. Amza, G. Soundararajan, Proc. of ICAC 2006

Automated Power management

• Weatherman: Automated, Online, and Predictive Thermal Mapping and Management for Data Centers, J. Moore, J. Chase, and P. Ranganathan, Proc. of ICAC 2007.
• VirtualPower: Coordinated Power Management in Virtualized Enterprise Systems Ripal Nathuji and Karsten Schwan, Proc. of SOSP 2007.

Self-* Systems

Self-healing systems

• Autonomic Reactive Systems via Online Learning, Sanjit Seshia, Proc. of ICAC 2007.
• Towards Autonomic Fault Recovery in System-S, Gabriela Jacques-Silva, Jim Challenger, Lou Degenaro, James Giles, Rohit Wagle Proc. of ICAC 2007.

Self-stabilizing Systems

• Self-stabilization, S. Dolev, MIT Press.

• Self-* Storage: Brick-based storage with automated administration, G. Ganger, J. Strunk, and A. Klosterman CMU Technical report 03-178, 2003.

Flash storage for Computer Systems

• Algorithms and data structures for flash memories, E. Gal and S. Toledo, ACM Computing Surveys, June 2005
• A Space-Efficient Flash Translation Layer for CompactFlash Systems, J. Kim, J. M. Kim, S. H. Noh, S. L. Min, and Y. Cho, IEEE Trans. on Consumer Electronics, 48(2):366-375, 2002.
• The Rio File Cache: Surviving Operating System Crashes P. Chen, W. Ng, S. Chandra, C. Aycock, G. Rajamani, D. Lowell, Proc. of ASPLOS 1996.
• YAFFS: A NAND Flash File System, Proc. Linux 2004.
• Apparatus and method to decrease boot time and hibernate awaken time of a computer system utilizing disk spin-up-time US Patent, March 2006.

Extreme Scale

• Dynamo: Amazon's Highly Available Key-Value Store Guiseppe DeCandia. et. al., Proc. of SOSP 2007.
• Bigtable: A Distributed Storage System for Structured Data Fay Chang, Jeffrey Dean, Sanjay Ghemawat, Wilson C. Hsieh, Deborah A. Wallach, Mike Burrows, Tushar Chandra, Andrew Fikes, and Robert E. Gruber, Proc. of OSDI 2006.
• The Google File System, S. Ghemawat, H. Gobioff, and S.-T. Leung ACM SOSP 2003.
• Web Search for a Planet: The Google Cluster Architecture IEEE Micro, Vol. 23, No. 2, pages 22-28, March, 2003.
• MapReduce: Simplified Data Processing on Large Clusters, Jeffrey Dean and Sanjay Ghemawat, In Proceedings of OSDI 2004.