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CS 562

Research Project

PhD students or students interested in research may elect to do a research project instead of Projects 3 and 4. Ideally, this is a project you would continue to work on past the class, and possibly publish. Please submit a short (2 paragraphs) project proposal by Friday, March 18 if you plan to do this. Send to me over e-mail. You may choose your own research project (pending my approval), but here are some ideas:

  • Validate experiments from LegoOS paper. Explore other workloads. Port it to another language, evaluate it on different hardware, explore other hardware devices, e.g., FPGAs.
  • Explore Theseus OS, analyze its performance in a virtualized environment.
  • Explore replication for fault tolerance in the context of virtual subroutines (virtines). See our paper here.
  • Add language support to WASM to support virtines.
  • Apply program synthesis to virtine execution environments.
  • Use modern OS and virtualization techniques (e.g., Theseus) to revisit microreboot
  • Explore usage of high-performance I/O in serverless functions. Maybe consider adapting Demikernel architecture.
  • Extend/improve J-NVM
  • Improve stateful serverless computing over shared logs with NVM
  • Implement an MPK-based back-end for virtines
  • Work on/improve/extend a system from VEE ‘21