CS 520: Operating Systems - Student Presentations

Process Communication and Scheduling (Sept. 17)

• Don Massoni and Ted Reed, How Yellow Dog Linux utilizes the Cell Broadband Engine Architecture

Process Communication and Scheduling (Sept. 24)

Process Communication and Scheduling (Oct. 1)

• Reena Mekaraj and Shashwath Devaru, Virtualization
• Rosemina Vohra and Stefan Chlanda, Minix vs. Linux (micro vs. monolithic kernels)

Memory Management (Oct. 8)

• Kinjal Desai and Nishit Shah, Mac OS X for desktops and the iPhone
• Dharitri Modi and Divyesh Soni, Memory Management in PalmOS vs. WinCE

Memory Management (Oct. 15)

• Krunal Parikh and Keyur Shah, Mac OS Memory Management (Lisa OS, System 6, System 7, Mac OS 8, Mac OS 9, Mac OS X)

File Systems and Device I/O (Oct. 29)

• Jianhua Yao and Yu Xiang, Evolution of Linux FS (Ext, Ext2, Ext3, Ext4)
• Vandana Makwana and Monik Doshi, Google File System

File Systems and Device I/O (Nov. 5)

• Hemant Bhatnagar and Tejas Sadashivaiah, VxWorks

File Systems and Device I/O (Nov. 12)

System Security (Nov. 19)

• Linh Le and Keith Cassidy, WinFS
• Jonathan Scharff and Andrij Kuzyszyn, Apple OS Security
• Miteshkumar Patel and Jainal Patel, Mac OS Device Management

System Security (Dec. 3)

• Taha Bayrak, Abhishek Sharma, and Paul Papitto, Windows Vista OS Security
• Jeff Youngs, Elliot Sadlon and Joe Geis, Amazon Cloud Computing