Computer System Guidance

A collection of Computer System Projects, built up from,

• OS
• Concurrent and Distributed System
• Computer Architecture
• Networking, Security, Compiler, etc

Application domain

• Database
• Game Engine

In addition, there are also references (paper, ebook, repo, tool, etc) that's interesting and helpful, ranging from beginner to advanced.

Projects

Operating_System MIT 6.S081, xv6 (Unix Version 6)

• Unix util
• System Call
• Page Table

Database_Management_System CMU15-445

• Data Model (relation, key/value)
• Query (SQL)
• Indexing (tree, hash tables)
• Storage (heap, log-structure)
• Memory Management
  • Buffer Pool Manager
    • LRU Replacer
  • Disk Manager
• Transaction processing
  • Concurrency Control
  • ACID
    • Atomicity: all or none
    • Consistency: invariant
    • Isolation: 2PL, TSO, OCC
    • Durability & Recovery: Logging, Checkpoints
• Parallel architectures (multi-core, distributed)

Distributed_System MIT6.824

• Consistency and Linearisability
• Fault Tolerance and replication
  • Replicated State Machines
  • Raft
  • Byzantine Fault Tolerance
• Distributed Transactions
  • Isolation: 2PL, TSO, OCC

Case study

• Google Map Reduce, File System, Spanner

Scheduling Literature Review

🌐Review | Github

• Scheduler (OS)
• DVFS (cpufreq governor)
• Dynamic Resource Sleep (OS)

Reference

🌐 Software Construction MIT 6.031

• Topic 21: Concurrency
• 23: Mutual Exclusion
• 24: Message passing
• More on Software related topics

🌐 Building a Modern Computer From First Principles Noam Nisan and Shimon Schocken (MIT Press)

📖Computer Systems: A Programmer's Perspective Randal E. Bryant and David R. O'Hallaron, Carnegie Mellon University

Cambridge CompSci

• Database @ IA
• Operating System @ IA
• Concurrent and Distributed @ IB
• Computer Architecture @ IB
• Advanced Architecture @ II

Game Engine

👨‍💻Unreal Engine Source code: https://docs.unrealengine.com/5.2/en-US/downloading-unreal-engine-source-code/