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Class Notes


Saltzer, Jerome H., and M. Frans Kaashoek. Principles of Computer System Design. (6.033 class notes, draft release 2.0, MIT, February 2005.)



Textbook


Brooks, Frederick P., Jr. The Mythical Man-Month. Reading, MA: Addison-Wesley, 1995. ISBN: 0201835959. (This book is primarily used at the end of the term. The 1974 edition is also usable in 6.033.)



Papers




Introduction to Computer Systems


Gabriel, Richard P. "The Rise of 'Worse is better'." On-line version of "Worse is Better". LISP: Good News, Bad News, How to Win BIG, AI Expert 6, no. 6 (June 1991): 33-35.

Simon, Herbert A. "The Architecture of Complexity." Proceedings of the American Philosophical Society 106, no. 6 (December 1962): 467-482. Republished as The Sciences of the Artificial. Part 4. Cambridge, MA: MIT Press, 1969, pp. 84-118. ISBN: 02621910516 (hardbound). ISBN: 0262690233 (paperback).

Gopen, George D., and Judith A. Swan. "The Science of Scientific Writing." American Scientist 78, no. 6 (November-December 1990): 550-558.

Leveson, Nancy G., and Clark S. Turner. "An Investigation of the Therac-25 Accidents." Computer 26, no. 7 (July 1993): 18-41.



Computer System Organization


Ritchie, Dennis M., and Ken L. Thompson. "The UNIX Time-sharing System." Bell System Technical Journal 57, no. 6, part 2 (1978): 1905-1930.

Scheifler, Robert, and Jim Gettys. "The X Window System." ACM Transactions on Graphics 5, no. 2 (April 1986): 79-109.

Pai, Vivek S., Peter Druschel, and Willy Zwaenepoel. "Flash: An Efficient and Portable Web Server." Proc of 1999 Annual Usenix Technical Conference. Monterey, CA, June 1999, pp. 199-212.

Dean, Jeffrey, and Sanjay Ghemawat. "MapReduce: Simplified Data Processing on Large Clusters." Proc 6th Symp on Operating Systems Design and Implementation (OSDI). San Francisco, CA, December 2004.



Networking


Metcalfe, Robert M., and David R. Boggs. "Ethernet: Distributed Packet Switching for Local Computer Networks." Communications of the ACM 19, no. 7 (July 1976): 395-404.

Saltzer, J. H., D. P. Reed and D. D. Clark. "End-to-end Arguments in System Design." ACM Trans on Computer Systems 2, no. 4 (November 1984): 277-288.

Balakrishnan, Hari. "An Introduction to Wide-Area Internet Routing." 6.033 Case Study. MIT, January 2004.

Sandberg, Russell, David Goldberg, Steve Kleiman, Dan Walsh, and Bob Lyon. "Design and Implementation of the Sun Network Filesystem." Proc of the 1985 Summer Usenix Technical Conference. El Cerrito, CA, June 1985, pp. 119-130.

Huston, Geoff. "Anatomy: A Look Inside Network Address Translators." The Internet Protocol Journal 7, no. 3 (September 2004): 2-32.



Failure Recovery, Coordination, and Atomicity


Rosenblum, Mendel, and John K. Ousterhout. "The Design and Implementation of a Log-structured File System." Proceedings of the Thirteenth ACM Symposium on Operating Systems Principles. Pacific Grove, CA, October 13-16, 1991, pp. 1-15. Published as Operating Systems Review 25, no. 5 (1991). Also appeared in ACM Transactions on Computer Systems 10, no. 1 (February 1992): 26-52.

Petroski, Henry. "Engineering: History and failure." American Scientist 80, no. 6 (November-December 1992): 523-526.

Gray, Jim, Paul McJones, Bruce Lindsay, Raymond Lorie, Tom Price, Franco Putzolu, and Irving Traiger. "The Recovery Manager of the System R Database Manager." ACM Computing Surveys 13, no. 2 (June 1981): 223-242.

Plauger, Phillip J., "Chocolate." Embedded Systems Programming 7, no. 3 (March 1994): 81-84.



Security


Thompson, Ken. "Reflections on Trusting Trust." Communications of the ACM 27, no. 8 (August 1984): 761-763.

Anderson, Ross J. "Why Cryptosystems Fail." Proceedings of the 1993 ACM Conference in Computer and Communications Security. 1993, pp. 32-40.

Handley, Mark. "Internet Denial of Service Considerations," Internet Engineering Task Force, (January 9 2004).

Saltzer, Jerome H. "Slammer: An urgent wake-up call." In Andrew Herbert and Karen Spärck Jones, editors.Computer Systems:Theory, technology and applications, A tribute to Roger Needham. New York, NY: Springer-Verlag, 2003. ISBN: 0387218211. (E-Book format).



More Complexity


Lampson, Butler W. "Hints for Computer System Design." Proceedings of the Ninth ACM Symposium on Operating Systems Principles. Bretton Woods, NH, October 10-13, 1983, pp. 33-48. Published as Operating Systems Review 17, no. 5 (1983).



Readings by Session



ses #Topicsreadings
R1Worse is Better
L1Introduction to SystemsChapter 1 (Sections A, B, C)
R2The Architecture of ComplexitySimon Paper
L2Complexity in Computer SystemsChapter 1 (Sections D, E)
R3Therac-25Leveson Paper
L3AbstractionsChapter 2 (pp. 2-9 through 2-13)

Chapter 3
R4UNIX® (Ritchie and Thompson)Ritchie Paper
W1Writing Program Lecture
L4NamingChapter 2 (except Appendix 2-A)
R5More UNIX®
L5Fault Isolation with Clients and ServersChapter 4 (except Appendix 4-A)
R6X Window SystemScheifler Paper
T1Design Project 1 Introduction
L6Virtualization

Virtual Memory
Chapter 5 (Section A)
L7Virtual Processors: Threads and CoordinationChapter 5 (Sections B-F)
R7Flash Web ServerPai Paper
T2Design Project 1 Discussion
L8PerformanceChapter 6
R8MapReduceDean Paper
L9Introduction to NetworksChapter 7 (Section A)
R9EthernetMetcalfe Paper
Q1Quiz 1: Material through R8
L10Layering and Link LayerChapter 7 (Sections B, C)
R10End-to-end ArgumentsSandberg Paper
L11Network Layer, RoutingChapter 7 (Section D)
R11Internet RoutingBalakrishnan Paper
T3Design Project 1 + Writing
L12End-to-end LayerChapter 7 (Section E)
R12NFS Protocol (first five pages)Sandberg Paper
L13Congestion ControlChapter 7 (Section F)
R13NATsHuston Paper
L14Distributed NamingChapter 4 (Appendix A)
R149/11Wiggins Paper
L15ReliabilityChapter 8
R15Fault-tolerance War Stories
L16Atomicity ConceptsChapter 9 (Section A)
R16LFSRosenblum Paper
L17RecoverabilityChapter 9 (Sections B, C)
R17System RGray Paper
T4Tutorial
L18IsolationChapter 9 (Sections D, E)
R18More System R + ChocolateRosenblum and Plauger Papers
L19Transactions and ConsistencyChapter 10 (Sections A, B)
R19UnisonPlease read chapter 10 (section D) before reading the paper
Q2Quiz 2: Material from L9 through R15
L20Multi-site AtomicityChapter 10 (Section E)
R20DurabilityChapter 10 (Section C) with Chapter 8 (Appendix B) and Chapter 9 (Appendix B) for background
T5Tutorial
L21Security IntroductionChapter 11 (Section A)
R21Security War StoriesChapter 11 (Appendix B)
L22AuthenticationChapter 11 (Section B)
R22Trusting TrustThompson Paper
L23Authorization and ConfidentialityChapter 11 (Sections C, D)
R23Why DO Cryptosystems Fail?Anderson Paper
R24Slammer and DoSHandley and Saltzer Papers
L24Advanced AuthenticationChapter 11 (Section F)
R25Design Project 2 Presentations
L25Complex, Trusted Systems
(Guest Lecture by Professor Hal Abelson)
R26Hints for System DesignLampson Paper
Q3Quiz 3: Material from L16 through R26

 








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