Computer Science 555 - Reading Report #4 -- Fall 2010
Due: Wednesday, November November 17, 2010, 11:00 p.m.
INSTRUCTIONS:
- Discuss the placement of services in Mach, V, Denali, Xen, and Unix or
Linux. Be sure to include the file system, scheduling, communication,
and memory management among the services covered. For each service,
note whether it is provided in Kernel Space, User Space, Server Space,
or a combination. If a combination, note which aspects of the
services are provided where. For questions above, it would be useful
to organize your answers in a table.
- For each operating or virtualization system, indicate whether it
represents a microkernel or monolithic kernel, and say a few words
about the overal system philosphy and/or motivation taken by the
developers in sructuring the system as they did.
The report must be submitted by 11:00 p.m. on November 17th. Students
may receive an automatic extension of 48 hours total that may be
applied across the four homework assignments (note that you do not get
to use this to extend the due date of the research paper). If you turn(ed)
in one of your assignment 8 hours late, then you will only have 40
hours remaining in extensions to use on subsequent assignments.
The report should be approximately 3 pages, or roughly 1200 to 1500
words.
To submit your report you will use the DEN Blackboard assignent
submission mechanism. You will use this method regardless of whether
you are an on-campus student or a DEN student.
How to submit Reading Report #3:
- STEP 1. Please login to DEN, and select csci555.
- STEP 2. Please select "Assignment" in the menu.
- STEP 3. Please select "view/Complete Reading Report #4".
- STEP 4. Please select "File To Attach" to attach your report. (NOTE: PDF, MS WORD, ASCII TEXT ONLY! Other formats are NOT acceptable.)
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STEP 5. Please select "Submit" button. (If you select *SAVE* button
instead of *submit*, then the TA cannot view your report for grading.)
It is the individual student's responsibility to follow the submission
instruction. Submissions that do not follow this instructions,
e.g., submitted late, or only "Saved" and not submitted. may be penalized or may not be graded at all.
GUIDELINE:
This is a lot to cover in so few words - so our advice is to write a
first pass at your answer that is longer, and then edit out material
that is redundant or not to the point. The use of tables can be very
effective in conveying your ideas in a small area, but the tables must
be integrated with your textual discussion, and not the only item in
your submission.