CS511 - Presentations

CS511. Operating Systems

Presentation Topics

Grad student presentations fulfill three objectives:

They provide an opportunity for additional depth of understanding for the grad students. All grad students are responsible for this additional material. The presenter's job is to lead them through it.
They provide additional insights for the undergrads. Undergrads will not be tested specifically on this material, but should find that it enhances their understanding of the concepts covered in the "CS411" portion of the course.
They give grad students a little practice in presentation. Specifically, they give practice in time-limited presentations that require a high-level approach.

Some Guidelines

Presentations must take no more than 5 minutes. Practice your presentation before you make it in class to be sure that it occupies 4-5 minutes. During your presentation, Dr. Pancake will indicate when there are:

2.5 minutes remaining (halfway through)
1 minute remaining (you should be almost there)
.5 minute remaining (wrap it up, even if you have more materials

If you go over the time limit, points will be deducted from your grade.

Prepare 1-2 overheads to help the students understand your presentation. Do not use any font smaller than 24 point bold (anything smaller is unreadable and will cause your audience to fall asleep).

Turn in a (paper) copy of your slides to Dr. Pancake on the day of your presentation, before you begin to speak.

Keep your presentation clear and understandable. If you do not understand some aspect yourself, dig deeper into related material until you do understand it. You cannot present something well if you don't understand it. It might help to practice with a couple of your classmates, so that they can give you advice about which portions are unclear.

Grading Criteria

This presentation counts as 1/2 of a programming assignment.

10 points	Correctness of information presented
15 points	Development of results: depth of understanding, evidence of logic underlying presenter's conclusions
15 points	Presentation quality: clarity, adherence to time limit, effective use of overheads

Choosing Your Topic

Each grad student should select a topic from the list below. To register your selection, send email to the class maillist, indicating:

	your name
	topic you have selected

In the event of "concurrency" (two students picking the same topic), the mail message with the earlier timestamp wins. The other student must pick a new topic.

Note that all grad students are responsible for reading all the sections listed below. This material will be included on tests.

Topic	Date	Section in book	Presenter
Interrupt handling in NT	Wed., 4/21	23.3.2	Takkallapally
DAT in Intel's virtual memory scheme	Mon., 4/26	Fig. 8.28 and section 23.3.3.3
Swapping and paging in LINUX	Wed., 4/28	22.6.2	Chen
File system in NT	Mon., 5/3	23.5.1	Hu
Proc file system in LINUX	Fri., 5/7	22.7.3	Chakri
Distributed clocks	Wed., 5/12	18.1 and 18.4.2	Zwart
The cigarette-smokers' problem and deadlock: if we impose a total ordering on the resources, it still deadlocks. Why?	Fri., 5/14	Problem 6.8 and section 7.4.4	Jia
Block device I/O in LINUX	Mon., 5/17	22.8.1	Sunharesan
Fault-tolerant disk management in NT	Wed., 5/19	23.5.4	Wen
Robustness in distributed systems	Fri., 5/21	16.4	Yang
Agreement in distributed systems	Wed., 5/26	18.7	Krishna
Election algorithm (choose one) for controlling a print server in a distributed system	Fri., 5/28	18.6	Ortiz