Reading Assignment 1: OS Fundamentals

Papers to read:

• Lamport, L., Time, Clocks, and the Ordering of Events in a Distributed System, Communications of the ACM, July 1978
• C.A. Thekkath and H.M. Levy, Limits to Low-Latency Communications on High- Speed Networks, ACM Transactions on Computer Systems, May 1993
• Schroeder, M., and Burrows, M., Performance of the Firefly RPC, SOSP 1989
• Liu, Kreitz, van Renesse, Hickey, Hayden, Birman, Constable, Building Reliable High Performance Communication Systems from Components, SOSP 1999

Read all of the papers and select two of the papers to write a report for.

Due date for your report: September 11, 2025. No deadline extensions are possible. Bring your printed report to the lecture.

Detailed instructions can be found here.