Global memory systems (part 1 of 2) notes
Introduction Summary Lessons will be broken down into three modules: GMS (i.e. can we use peer memory for paging across LAN) and DSM (i.e. can we make the clust...
Category: Advanced Operating Systems
Distributed Systems – Active Networks (notes)
Introduction Summary How do quickly and reliably route data Routing on the Internet Summary Key Words: active network The idea is that instead of each router pe...
Distributed Systems – Latency Limits (Notes)
Introduction Summary Lamport’s theories provided deterministic execution for non determinism exists due to vagaries of the network. Will discuss technique...
Daily Review: Day Ending in 2020/10/18
Family and Friends Celebrated Elliott’s 1 year birthday. Jess and I are two weeks late but to be fair, the two of us were in the midst of moving the entir...
Daily Review: Day Ending in 2020/10/15
Family Difficult time comforting Jess when she’s upset. It’s insane but it’s so easy for me to gently console other people (like friends or ev...
Project 3 – Snapshotting my understanding (gRPC)
Unfamiliar Technologies Never heard of or used gRPC. According to their website, it’s a high performance open source RPC framework. I’m wondering if...
Not putting all your eggs in one basket and Daily Review: Day ending in 2020/10/14
Mental Health Best Part(s) of My Day Swinging on the swings with Elliott. She was sitting on my lap, facing my direction, as swung us on the swing back and fort...
Lamport’s Clocks (notes)
Introduction Summary Now that we talked about happened before events, we can talk about lamport clocks Lamport’s Logical Clock Summary A logical clock that each...
What I learned from writing synchronization barriers
Before starting project 2 (for my advanced operating systems course), I took a snapshot of my understanding of synchronization barriers. In retrospect, I’...
Deadlocking in centralized counting barrier implementation
For project 2 of my advanced operating systems course, I quickly typed up what I thought was a functional simple centralized counting barrier implementation. Ho...