| Week | Date | Topic(s) | Facilitator(s) | Paper(s) |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 1/11 | — | Eide | no meeting — organizational email |
| 2 | 1/18 | fuzz testing | Eide | Evaluating Fuzz Testing. George Klees et al. In CCS ’18, Oct. 2018. |
| 3 | 1/25 | empirical evaluations | Duplyakin | The Truth, The Whole Truth, and Nothing But the Truth: A Pragmatic Guide to Assessing Empirical Evaluations. Stephen M. Blackburn et al. TOPLAS, 38(4):15:1–15:20, Oct. 2016. |
| 4 | 2/1 | OS implementation | Maricq | The Benefits and Costs of Writing a POSIX Kernel in a High-level Language. Cody Cutler et al. In OSDI ’18, Oct. 2018. |
| 5 | 2/8 | OS abstractions for FPGAs | Johnson | Sharing, Protection, and Compatibility for Reconfigurable Fabric with AmorphOS. Ahmed Khawaja et al. In OSDI ’18, Oct. 2018. |
| 6 | 2/15 | test input generation | Hatch | A Solver-Aided Language for Test Input Generation. Talia Ringer et al. In Proc. ACM on Programming Languages, 1(OOPSLA):91:1–91:24, Oct. 2017. |
| 7 | 2/22 | — | — | no meeting — student research posters |
| 8 | 3/1 | memory scrubbing | Cherkaev | Dead Store Elimination (Still) Considered Harmful. Zhaomo Yang et al. In USENIX Security ’17, Aug. 2017. |
| 9 | 3/8 | binary analysis | Nguyen | Investigating Graph Embedding Neural Networks with Unsupervised Features Extraction for Binary Analysis. Luca Massarelli et al. In BAR ’19, Feb. 2019. |
| 10 | 3/15 | — | — | no meeting — University spring break |
| 11 | 3/22 | program synthesis | Baireddy | Program Synthesis Using Conflict-Driven Learning. Yu Feng et al. In PLDI ’18, Jun. 2018. |
| 12 | 3/29 | function as a service | Syed | Orchestrating for E2E Application Performance in Uncertain FaaS Ecosystems. |
| 13 | 4/5 | network virtualization | Ricci | Andromeda: Performance, Isolation, and Velocity at Scale in Cloud Network Virtualization. Michael Dalton et al. In NSDI ’18, Apr. 2018. |
| 14 | 4/12 | fast RPC | Hibler | Datacenter RPCs Can Be General and Fast. Anuj Kalia et al. In NSDI ’19, Feb. 2019. |
| 15 | 4/19 | temporal provenance | Li | Zeno: Diagnosing Performance Problems with Temporal Provenance. Yang Wu et al. In NSDI ’19, Feb. 2019. |
| 16 | 4/24 | fun and profit | Eide | Wednesday 4/24 at 12:00 PM: Monetization of Development Tools for Fun and Profit. Albin Eldstål-Damlin. In SIGBOVIK ’19, Apr. 2019. |
The spring 2019 offering of CS 7934 will cover a variety of systems topics, with an eye toward two goals.
The first is to increase participants' familiarity with recent and important results in the area of computer systems research. Attendees will read and discuss papers from recent and imminent top-tier systems conferences: e.g., SOSP, OSDI, NSDI, SIGCOMM, FAST, systems-related security conferences, and so on. Attendees will typically discuss one paper each week. Papers will be selected for their relevance to participants' research or upcoming Utah visitors. In contrast to some recent offerings of the seminar, there is no preset “focus topic” for spring 2019. One can anticipate, however, that the semester will include discussions about operating systems, distributed systems, cloud computing, datacenters, networking, and security.
The second is to be a venue for student presentations. Every student participating in the seminar will be required to lead at least one meeting during the semester. This may be a “formal” research presentation—ideally of a student's current work—or it may be an analysis of the research papers chosen for a seminar meeting.
CS 7934 is often called “the CSL seminar.” The name CSL is historic.
To get on the class mailing list, use Mailman to subscribe to csl-sem.
The course syllabus contains important information for students, including the course's policies on grading and cheating.
Students may enroll for one (1) credit.
Those taking the course for credit must read all of the assigned papers, submit a short summary of each assigned paper prior to class (PDF, LaTeX), participate in each discussion, and facilitate at least one seminar meeting during the semester. Refer to the syllabus for further information.
Upcoming and recent conference proceedings are good sources of papers for discussion. Below are links to some relevant conference series.
| Semester | Focus Topic(s) |
|---|---|
| Fall 2018 | no focus topic chosen |
| Spring 2018 | no focus topic chosen; many SOSP ’17 papers |
| Fall 2017 | no focus topic chosen |
| Spring 2017 | no focus topic chosen |
| Fall 2016 | no focus topic chosen; many SIGCOMM ’16 papers |
| Spring 2016 | no focus topic chosen |
| Fall 2015 | no focus topic chosen; many systems security papers |
| Spring 2015 | no focus topic chosen |
| Fall 2014 | no focus topic chosen; many OSDI ’14 papers |
| Spring 2014 | no focus topic chosen; many systems security papers |
| Fall 2013 | no focus topic chosen; many SOSP ’13 papers |
| Spring 2013 | reversible and “time-traveling” debugging |
| Fall 2012 | modern networking and network management; peer-review process |
| Spring 2012 | systems approaches to dynamic problem detection and repair |
| Fall 2011 | datacenter architectures and issues |
| Spring 2011 | malicious software, i.e., malware |
| Fall 2010 | systems approaches to security |
| Spring 2010 | testbed-like infrastructures for cloud computing and scientific computing |
| Fall 2009 | no focus topic chosen; many SOSP ’09 papers |
| Fall 2008 | no focus topic chosen; many OSDI ’08 papers |
| Summer 2008 | no focus topic chosen; informal biweekly meetings |
| Spring 2008 | no focus topic chosen |
| Fall 2007 | no focus topic chosen; many SOSP ’07 papers |
| Fall 2006 | no focus topic chosen; many OSDI ’06 papers |
| Fall 2005 | no focus topic chosen; many SOSP ’05 papers |
| Spring 2005 | no focus topic chosen; many NSDI ’05 papers |