The papers that I have {read, want to read}. The original idea was to write my thoughts for the papers I have read. However, [ d(no of papers to read)/dt >> d(no of papers read)/dt ]. Hence, this list is more of an index of things that I hope to get to in this lifetime.

Not a list of the most cutting-edge technologies, since system topics are usually old and many papers here are classics in the topics they discuss.

TOREAD

OSes

  • Exokernel: an operating system architecture for application-level resource management
  • Experience with processes and monitors in Mesa
  • Extensibility safety and performance in the SPIN operating system
  • Observations on the development of an operating system (Pilot)
  • The design and implementation of a log-structured file system
  • The performance of μ-kernel-based systems

Virtualization

  • Bringing Virtualization to the x86 Architecture with the Original VMware Workstation
  • Disco: running commodity operating systems on scalable multiprocessors
  • Formal requirements for virtualizable third generation architectures
  • Xen and the art of virtualization

Historical systems

  • Plan 9 from Bell Labs
  • The UNIX time-sharing system

Distributed

  • Impossibility of distributed consensus with one faulty process
  • MapReduce: Simplified Data Processing on Large Clusters
  • Time, Clocks and the Ordering of Events in a Distributed System
  • The part-time parliament

Programming Languages:

  • The development of the C programming language

READ

A list that is consistently out of date.

Networking
Note: Most of these are because they are required readings for a class

  • The design philosophy of the DARPA internet protocols

Linux

  • Linux Security Modules: General Security Support for the Linux Kernel