6.033--Computer System Engineering

Suggestions for Classroom Discussion of Readings

• Anderson, Ross J. Why cryptosystems fail.
• Anderson, Thomas E. et al. High speed switch scheduling for local-area networks.
• Berners-Lee, Tim, et al. The World-Wide Web.
• Birrell, Andrew D., et al. The Echo distributed file system.
• Birrell, Andrew D., et al. Grapevine: An exercise in distributed computing.
• Birrell, Andrew D., and Bruce Jay Nelson. Implementing remote procedure calls.
• Birrell, Andrew D. An introduction to programming with threads.
• Brin, Sergy, and Lawrence Page. The anatomy of a large-scale hypertextual web search engine.
• Brinch Hansen, Per. The nucleus of a multiprogramming system.
• Clark, David D. Modularity and efficiency in protocol implementation.
• Egevang, K., and P. Francis. The IP Network Address Translator (NAT).
• Gabriel, Richard P. Worse is better.
• Ganger, Gregory R. and M. Frans Kaashoek. Embedded inodes and explicit grouping exploiting disk bandwidth for small files.
• Gifford, David K., et al. Semantic file systems.
• Gray, Jim, and Daniel P. Siewiorek. High-availability computer systems.
• Gray, Jim, et al. The recovery manager of the System R database manager.
• Ioannidis, John Dan Duchamp, and Gerald Q. Maguire Jr. IP-based protocols for mobile internetworking.
• Johnson, David B. Scalable support for transparent mobile host Internetworking.
• Katz, Randy H., Garth A. Gibson, and David A. Patterson. Disk system architectures for high performance computing.
• Kistler, James J., and Mahadev Satyanarayanan. Disconnected operation in the Coda file system.    The potato chip vendor.
• Lampson, Butler W. Hints for computer system design.
• Leveson, Nancy G. and Clark S. Turner. An investigation of the Therac-25 accidents.
• Lucky, Robert W. Bozos on the bus.
• Metcalfe, Robert M. and David R. Boggs. Ethernet: Distributed packet switching for local computer networks.
• Miller, Steven P., B. Clifford Neuman, Jeffrey I Schiller, and Jerome H. Saltzer. Kerberos authentication and authorization system.
• Mockapetris, Paul V., and Kevin J. Dunlap. Development of the Domain Name System.
• Noam, Eli M. Electronics and the dim future of the university.
• Oz, Effy. When professional standards are lax: the CONFIRM failure and its lessons.
• Pai, Vivek S. et al. Flash: An efficient and portable web server.
• Plaugher, Phillip J. Chocolate.
• Ritchie, Dennis M., and Ken [L.] Thompson. The UNIX time-sharing system.
• Rosenblum, Mendel and John K. Ousterhout. The design and implementation of a log-structured file system.
• Saltzer, Jerome H., David. P. Reed, and David. D. Clark. End-to-end arguments in system design.
• Sandberg, Russell et al. Design and implementation of the Sun network filesystem.
• Savage, Stefan, et al. Eraser: a dynamic race detector for multithreaded programs.
• Scheifler, Robert and James Gettys. The X window system .
• Schroeder, Michael D., et al. Autonet: A high-speed, self-configuring local area network using point-to-point Links.
• Simon, Herbert A. The architecture of complexity.
• Spector, Alfred, and David Gifford. The space shuttle primary computer system.
• Thompson, Kenneth Reflections on trusting trust.
• Varhol, Peter D. Small kernels hit it big.