Paper Links for Lectures 1-3

For Lecture 2, everyone should read the first three papers (marked "[L2]") and one other.

For Lecture 3, everyone should read the last two papers (marked "[L3]").

Technical papers

• [L2] Vivek S. Pai, Peter Druschel, and Willy Zwaenepoel. "Flash: An efficient and portable Web server." In Proc. USENIX 1999. http://www.cs.princeton.edu/~vivek/flash99/
• [L2] Matt Welsh, David Culler, and Eric Brewer. "SEDA: An Architecture for Well-Conditioned, Scalable Internet Services." In Proc. 18th SOSP, 2001. http://www.eecs.harvard.edu/~mdw/papers/seda-sosp01.pdf
• [L2] Rob von Behren, Jeremy Condit, Feng Zhou, George C. Necula, and Eric Brewer. "Capriccio: Scalable Threads for Internet Services." In Proc. 19th SOSP, 2003. http://capriccio.cs.berkeley.edu/pubs/capriccio-sosp-2003.pdf
• Tim Brecht, David Pariag, and Louay Gammo. "accept()able Strategies for Improving Web Server Performance." To appear in Proc. USENIX 2004. http://www.cs.ucla.edu/~kohler/class/04s-readable/acceptable.pdf This is a pre-publication draft version the authors are generously letting us use for this class. Please don't redistribute it further.
• Mor Harchol-Balter, Bianca Schroeder, Nikhil Bansal, and Mukesh Agrawal. "Size-based Scheduling to Improve Web Performance." ACM Transactions on Computer Systems 21(2), May 2003, pp 207-233. http://www-2.cs.cmu.edu/~harchol/Papers/tocs257.ps
• Gaurav Banga, Jeffrey C. Mogul, and Peter Druschel. "A Scalable and Explicit Event Delivery Mechanism for UNIX." In Proc. USENIX 1999. Local PDF (no errors), or http://www.cs.rice.edu/~gaurav/papers/usenix99.ps (contains PostScript errors)

Position papers

• John Ousterhout. "Why Threads are a Bad Idea (for most purposes)." Invited talk at USENIX 1996. http://www.softpanorama.org/People/Ousterhout/Threads/ or http://www.cc.gatech.edu/ccg/people/rob/software/threads/ousterhout_threads.html
• Rob von Behren, Jeremy Condit, and Eric Brewer. "Why Events are a Bad Idea (for high-concurrency servers)." In Proc. HotOS IX. http://capriccio.cs.berkeley.edu/pubs/threads-hotos-2003.pdf
• Frank Dabek, Nickolai Zeldovich, Franks Kaashoek, David Mazières, and Robert Morris. "Event-Driven Programming for Robust Software." In Proc. 2002 SIGOPS European Workshop. http://www.pdos.lcs.mit.edu/papers/events:sigops/
• M. Frans Kaashoek, Dawson R. Engler, Gregory R. Ganger, and Deborah A. Wallach. "Server Operating Systems." In Proc. 1996 SIGOPS European Workshop. http://www.pdos.lcs.mit.edu/papers/serverOS.html

Secondary references

• Nickolai Zeldovich, Alexander Yip, Frank Dabek, Robert Morris, David Mazières, and Frans Kaashoek. "Multiprocessor Support for Event-Driven Programs." In Proc. USENIX 2003. http://www.pdos.lcs.mit.edu/papers/asyncmp/
• [L3] Vivek S. Pai, Peter Druschel, and Willy Zwaenepoel. "IO-Lite: A Unified I/O Buffering and Caching System." ACM Transactions on Computer Systems 18(1), Feb. 2000, pp 37-66. http://www.cs.princeton.edu/~vivek/iol-tocs.ps.gz
• [L3] Gaurav Banga, Peter Druschel, Jeffrey C. Mogul. "Resource containers: A new facility for resource management in server systems." In Proc. OSDI 1999. http://www.cs.rice.edu/~gaurav/papers/osdi99.ps