Reading Assignment 1: OS Fundamentals (2)

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

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

Due date for your report: September 10, 2026. No deadline extensions are possible. Bring your printed report to the lecture.

Detailed instructions can be found here.