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Update virtual system meetup schedule

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 Virtualized Systems Meetup 2024
 
 ## Annoucement 
+Thanks for visiting SPLVM "Vitual System Meetup". We will follow UCSD CSE291 on Virtualization. Please check our schedule below and join us if you are interested. The meetup will be held every Monday at 5:00pm PST. The first meetup will be on January 22, 2021. Please contact us if you want to present a paper or give a guest talk. 
 
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+## Important Links
+- UCSD CSE291: [Virtualization](https://cseweb.ucsd.edu/~yiying/cse291-winter22/reading/)
+
+## Schedule 
+| Time/Zoom | Topic | Prepare Reading | Additional Reading | Presenter | Notes | Recording |
+|-----------|-------|-----------------|--------------------|-----------|-------|-----------|
+| January 22: 5:00pm PST, Zoom | Administrative | N/A | N/A | Mossaka & Wen | N/A | N/A |
+| January 29: 5:00pm PST, Zoom | Background and Virtualization | [Comet Book Chapter on Virtual Machine Monitors](http://pages.cs.wisc.edu/~remzi/OSTEP/vmm-intro.pdf) | 1. Formal Requirements for Virtualizable Third Generation Architectures (Comm ACM 1974); <br> 2. Disco: Running Commodity Operating Systems on Scalable Multiprocessors (TOCS'97); <br> 3. Scale and Performance in the Denali Isolation Kernel | N/A | N/A | N/A | N/A |
+| February 5: 5:00pm PST, Zoom | GUEST SPEAKER SESSION: TBD | N/A | N/A | N/A | N/A | N/A | N/A |
+| February 12: 5:00pm PST, Zoom | Virtulization CPU | [A Comparison of Software and Hardware Techniques for x86 Virtualization (ASPLOS'06)](https://pdos.csail.mit.edu/6.828/2018/readings/adams06vmware.pdf) | 1. [The Evolution of an x86 Virtual Machine Monitor](http://course.ece.cmu.edu/~ece845/docs/vmware-evolution.pdf); <br> 2. Software Techniques for Avoiding Hardware Virtualization Exits; <br> 3. Embra: Fast and Flexible Machine Simulation; <br> 4. Fast Dynamic Binary Translation for the Kernel; <br> 5. Enabling Intel Virtualization Technology Features and Benefits | N/A | N/A | N/A | N/A |
+| February 19: 5:00pm PST, Zoom | GUEST SPEAKER SESSION: TBD | N/A | N/A | N/A | N/A | N/A | N/A |
+| February 26: 5:00pm PST, Zoom | Virtualization Memory | 1. The first three pages of [Performance Evaluation of Intel EPT Hardware Assist](https://www.vmware.com/pdf/Perf_ESX_Intel-EPT-eval.pdf); <br> 2. At least the first four sections of [Memory Resource Management in VMware ESX Server (OSDI'02)](https://www.vmware.com/pdf/usenix_resource_mgmt.pdf) | Difference Engine: Harnessing Memory Redundancy in Virtual Machines | N/A | N/A | N/A | N/A |
+| March 4: 5:00pm PST, Zoom | GUEST SPEAKER SESSION: TBD | N/A | N/A | N/A | N/A | N/A | N/A |
+| March 11: 5:00pm PST, Zoom | Virtualization I/O | 1. First three sections of [virtio: Towards a De-Facto Standard For Virtual I/O Devices](https://ozlabs.org/~rusty/virtio-spec/virtio-paper.pdf); <br> 2. First three sections of [High Performance Network Virtualization with SR-IOV](http://zhenxiao.com/read/SR-IOV.pdf); <br> 3. [Network Virtualization Overview](https://sdn.systemsapproach.org/netvirt.html) | 1. vIC: Interrupt Coalescing for Virtual Machine Storage Device IO; <br> 2. ELI: Bare-Metal Performance for I/O Virtualization; <br> 3. [Virtualizing I/O Devices on VMware Workstation's Hosted Virtual Machine Monitor (ATC'01)](https://www.vmware.com/pdf/usenix_io_devices.pdf); <br> 4. [Network Virtualization in Multi-tenant Datacenters (NSDI'14)](https://www.usenix.org/conference/nsdi14/technical-sessions/presentation/koponen); <br> 5. [The Design and Implementation of Open vSwitch (NSDI'15)](https://www.openvswitch.org/support/papers/nsdi2015.pdf%20target=) | N/A | N/A | N/A | N/A |
+| March 18: 5:00pm PST, Zoom | GUEST SPEAKER SESSION: TBD | N/A | N/A | N/A | N/A | N/A | N/A |
+| March 25: 5:00pm PST, Zoom | Container Basics | [Understanding and Hardening Linux Containers](https://research.nccgroup.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/07/ncc_group_understanding_hardening_linux_containers-1-1.pdf) (mainly Ch 2 to Ch 5; you can ignore many of the details in these chapters. Read Ch 1 for more background on virtualization. Read other chapters if you are interested in security.) | 1. [LXC/LXD](https://linuxcontainers.org/); <br> 2. [Docker](https://docs.docker.com/engine/docker-overview/); <br> 3. [Understanding Security Implications of Using Containers in the Cloud](https://www.usenix.org/system/files/conference/atc17/atc17-tak-paper.pdf) <br> 4. [Container Security: Issues, Challenges, and the Road Ahead](https://ieeexplore.ieee.org/stamp/stamp.jsp?tp=&arnumber=8693491); <br> 5. [Slacker: Fast Distribution with Lazy Docker Containers](https://www.usenix.org/node/194431) | N/A | N/A | N/A | N/A |
+| April 1: 5:00pm PST, Zoom | GUEST SPEAKER SESSION: TBD | N/A | N/A | N/A | N/A | N/A | N/A |
+| April 8: 5:00pm PST, Zoom | Kubernetes and gVisor | [Kubernetes](https://kubernetes.io/docs/tutorials/kubernetes-basics/) and [gVisor](https://gvisor.dev/docs) | 1. [Borg, Omega, and Kubernetes (Google)](https://storage.googleapis.com/pub-tools-public-publication-data/pdf/44843.pdf); <br> 2. [The True Cost of Containing: A gVisor Case Study](https://www.usenix.org/system/files/hotcloud19-paper-young.pdf); <br> 3. [Container Isolation at Scale (Introducing gVisor) - Dawn Chen & Zhengyu He, Google](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pWyJahTWa4I); <br> 4. [Nabla Containers](https://nabla-containers.github.io/) | N/A | N/A | N/A | N/A |
+| April 15: 5:00pm PST, Zoom | GUEST SPEAKER SESSION: TBD | N/A | N/A | N/A | N/A | N/A | N/A |
+| April 22: 5:00pm PST, Zoom | Serverless Computing | 1. Pages 3 to 8 of [Cloud Programming Simplified: A Berkeley View on Serverless Computing](https://www2.eecs.berkeley.edu/Pubs/TechRpts/2019/EECS-2019-3.pdf); <br> 2. Briefly about [Serverless in the Wild: Characterizing and Optimizing the Serverless Workload at a Large Cloud Provider (ATC'20)](https://www.usenix.org/conference/atc20/presentation/shahrad) | 1. [Amazon Lambda](https://aws.amazon.com/lambda/); <br> 2. [Google Cloud Functions](https://cloud.google.com/functions/); <br> 3. [Azure Functions](https://azure.microsoft.com/en-us/services/functions/); <br> 4. [Serverless Computing: Current Trends and Open Problems](https://arxiv.org/pdf/1706.03178.pdf); <br> 5. [Serverless Workflows with Durable Functions and Netherite](https://arxiv.org/pdf/2103.00033.pdf); <br> 6.[Serverless Computing: One Step Forward, Two Steps Back](http://cidrdb.org/cidr2019/papers/p119-hellerstein-cidr19.pdf) | N/A | N/A | N/A | N/A |
+| April 29: 5:00pm PST, Zoom | GUEST SPEAKER SESSION: TBD | N/A | N/A | N/A | N/A | N/A | N/A |
+| May 6: 5:00pm PST, Zoom | Serverless Computing 2 | [Pocket: Elastic Ephemeral Storage for Serverless Analytics (OSDI'18)](https://www.usenix.org/system/files/osdi18-klimovic.pdf) | 1. Occupy the Cloud: Distributed Computing for the 99% (PyWren); <br> 2. [Encoding, Fast and Slow: Low-Latency Video Processing Using Thousands of Tiny Threads](https://www.usenix.org/conference/nsdi17/technical-sessions/presentation/fouladi); <br> 3. [SAND: Towards High-Performance Serverless Computing](https://www.usenix.org/system/files/conference/atc18/atc18-akkus.pdf); <br> 4. [Encoding, Fast and Slow: Low-Latency Video Processing Using Thousands of Tiny Threads](https://www.usenix.org/conference/nsdi17/technical-sessions/presentation/fouladi);  <br> 5. [A Case for Serverless Machine Learning](http://learningsys.org/nips18/assets/papers/101CameraReadySubmissioncirrus_nips_final2.pdf); <br> 6.[Archipelago: A Scalable Low-Latency Serverless Platform](https://arxiv.org/pdf/1911.09849.pdf); <br> 7. [Cloudburst: Stateful Functions-as-a-Service](https://arxiv.org/pdf/2001.04592.pdf) | N/A | N/A | N/A | N/A |
+| May 13: 5:00pm PST, Zoom | GUEST SPEAKER SESSION: TBD | N/A | N/A | N/A | N/A | N/A | N/A |
+| May 20: 5:00pm PST, Zoom | LibraryOS | [Unikernels: Library Operating Systems for the Cloud (ASPLOS'13)](http://mort.io/publications/pdf/asplos13-unikernels.pdf) | 1. [Unikernels as Processes](https://dl.acm.org/doi/10.1145/3267809.3267845); <br> 2. [Unikernels are unfit for production](https://www.joyent.com/blog/unikernels-are-unfit-for-production); <br> 3. Rethinking the Library OS from the Top-Down; <br> 4. [Mirage OS](https://mirage.io/); <br> 5. [Nabla Containers](https://nabla-containers.github.io/); <br> 6. [ClickOS and the Art of Network Function Virtualization](https://www.usenix.org/system/files/conference/nsdi14/nsdi14-paper-martins.pdf); <br> 7. Libra: a library operating system for a JVM in a virtualized execution environment; <br> 8. Exokernel: an operating system architecture for application-level resource management; <br> 9. [Dune: Safe User-level Access to Privileged CPU Features (OSDI'12)](https://www.usenix.org/system/files/conference/osdi12/osdi12-final-117.pdf) | N/A | N/A | N/A | N/A |
+| May 27: 5:00pm PST, Zoom | GUEST SPEAKER SESSION: TBD | N/A | N/A | N/A | N/A | N/A | N/A |
+| June 3: 5:00pm PST, Zoom | Amazon Firecracker | [Firecracker: Lightweight Virtualization for Serverless Applications (NSDI'20)](https://www.usenix.org/system/files/nsdi20-paper-agache.pdf) | 1. [Amazon Firecracker Git repo](https://firecracker-microvm.github.io/); <br> 2. [Kata Containers](https://katacontainers.io/) | N/A | N/A | N/A | N/A |
+| June 10: 5:00pm PST, Zoom | GUEST SPEAKER SESSION: TBD | N/A | N/A | N/A | N/A | N/A | N/A |
+| June 17: 5:00pm PST, Zoom | Para-Virtualization | [Xen and the Art of Virtualization (SOSP'03)](https://www.cl.cam.ac.uk/research/srg/netos/papers/2003-xensosp.pdf) | 1. [Understanding Full Virtualization, Paravirtualization, and Hardware Assist](https://www.vmware.com/content/dam/digitalmarketing/vmware/en/pdf/techpaper/VMware_paravirtualization.pdf); <br> 2. [Safe Hardware Access with the Xen Virtual Machine Monitor](https://www.cl.cam.ac.uk/research/srg/netos/papers/2004-safehw-oasis.pdf); <br> 3. [Optimizing Network Virtualization in Xen](https://www.usenix.org/legacy/event/usenix06/tech/menon/menon_html/paper.html); <br> 4.[Measuring CPU Overhead for I/O Processing in the Xen Virtual Machine Monitor](https://www.usenix.org/legacy/publications/library/proceedings/usenix05/tech/general/full_papers/short_papers/cherkasova/cherkasova.pdf); <br> 5. [Breaking Up is Hard to Do: Security and Functionality in a Commodity Hypervisor (SOSP'11)](https://tjd.phlegethon.org/words/sosp11-xoar.pdf) | N/A | N/A | N/A | N/A |
+| June 24: 5:00pm PST, Zoom | GUEST SPEAKER SESSION: TBD | N/A | N/A | N/A | N/A | N/A | N/A |
+| July 1: 5:00pm PST, Zoom | KVM and QEMU | 1. [kvm: the Linux Virtual Machine Monitor](https://www.kernel.org/doc/ols/2007/ols2007v1-pages-225-230.pdf); <br> 2. [QEMU, a Fast and Portable Dynamic Translator](https://www.usenix.org/legacy/event/usenix05/tech/freenix/full_papers/bellard/bellard.pdf) (It's OK to not fully understand Section 2) | [KVM Documentation](https://www.linux-kvm.org/page/Documents) | N/A | N/A | N/A | N/A |
+| July 8: 5:00pm PST, Zoom | GUEST SPEAKER SESSION: TBD | N/A | N/A | N/A | N/A | N/A | N/A |
+| July 15: 5:00pm PST, Zoom | Security | 1. [When Virtual is Harder than Real: Security Challenges in Virtual Machine Based Computing Environments (HotOS'05)](https://www.usenix.org/legacy/event/hotos05/final_papers/full_papers/garfinkel/garfinkel_old.pdf); <br> 2. [Hey, You, Get Off of My Cloud: Exploring Information Leakage in Third-Party Compute Clouds (CCS'09)](https://cseweb.ucsd.edu//~savage/papers/CCS09.pdf) | 1. [Secure Container Isolation: Problem Statement & Solution Space](https://goo.gl/eQHuqo); <br> 2. [When Virtual Is Better Than Real (HotOS'01)](https://www2.cs.duke.edu/courses/cps210/spring06/papers/chen01.pdf); <br> 3. [Secure Pods: Sandboxing workloads in Kubernetes](https://schd.ws/hosted_files/kccnceu18/96/Secure%20Pods%20-%20KubeCon%20EU%202018.pdf); <br> 4. TrustVisor: Efficient TCB Reduction and Attestation; <br> 5. [SecVisor: A Tiny Hypervisor to Provide Lifetime Kernel Code Integrity for Commodity OSes (SOSP'07)](https://www.cs.cmu.edu/~arvinds/pubs/secvisor.pdf); <br> 6. [Breaking Up is Hard to Do: Security and Functionality in a Commodity Hypervisor (SOSP'11)](https://tjd.phlegethon.org/words/sosp11-xoar.pdf); <br> 7. [InkTag: Secure Applications on an Untrusted Operating System (ASPLOS'13)](http://citeseerx.ist.psu.edu/viewdoc/download?doi=10.1.1.435.4999&rep=rep1&type=pdf); <br> 8. [Overshadow: A Virtualization-Based Approach to Retrofitting Protection in Commodity Operating Systems](https://www.cs.utexas.edu/~shmat/courses/cs380s/overshadow.pdf); <br> 9. VirtuOS: An Operating System with Kernel Virtualization; <br> 10. SCONE: Secure Linux Containers with Intel SGX; <br> 11. [Understanding Security Implications of Using Containers in the Cloud (ASPLOS'08)](https://www.usenix.org/system/files/conference/atc17/atc17-tak-paper.pdf); <br> 12. [Container Security: Issues, Challenges, and the Road Ahead](https://ieeexplore.ieee.org/stamp/stamp.jsp?tp=&arnumber=8693491) | N/A | N/A | N/A | N/A |
+| July 22: 5:00pm PST, Zoom | GUEST SPEAKER SESSION: TBD | N/A | N/A | N/A | N/A | N/A | N/A |
+| July 29: 5:00pm PST, Zoom | Virtualizing non-CPU Processors (Accelerators) | 1. [GPU Virtualization on VMware’s Hosted I/O Architecture](https://www.usenix.org/legacy/event/wiov08/tech/full_papers/dowty/dowty.pdf); <br> 2. [Do OS abstractions make sense on FPGAs? (OSDI'20)](https://www.usenix.org/conference/osdi20/presentation/roscoe) | 1. [AvA: Accelerated Virtualization of Accelerators](https://oscarlab.github.io/papers/ava-asplos20.pdf); <br> 2. [A Full GPU Virtualization Solution with Mediated Pass-Through (ATC'14)](https://www.usenix.org/system/files/conference/atc14/atc14-paper-tian.pdf); <br> 3. [Sharing, Protection and Compatibility for Reconfigurable Fabric with AmorphOS (OSDI'18)](https://www.usenix.org/system/files/osdi18-khawaja.pdf); <br> 4. [Accelerating & Optimizing HPC/ML on vSphere Leveraging NVIDIA GPU (2019/02 talk)](http://www.hpcadvisorycouncil.com/events/2019/stanford-workshop/pdf/DayTwo_Friday_15Feb_2019/M_Pothari_MachineLearning_VMWare_Friday_02152019.pdf); <br> 5. [GPUvm: Why Not Virtualizing GPUs at the Hypervisor? (ATC'14)](https://pdfs.semanticscholar.org/cffc/3c4e332287ba5b67a20c0bf0fbcb8a6e5725.pdf); <br> 6. [PTask: Operating System Abstractions To Manage GPUs as Compute Devices (SOSP'11)](http://www.cs.utexas.edu/users/rossbach/pubs/sosp11rossbach.pdf) | N/A | N/A | N/A | N/A |
+| August 5: 5:00pm PST, Zoom | GUEST SPEAKER SESSION: TBD | N/A | N/A | N/A | N/A | N/A | N/A |
+| August 12: 5:00pm PST, Zoom | New Cloud Infrastructure | [Amazon Nitro](https://aws.amazon.com/ec2/nitro/) (esp. the video talk on that page) | [Intel Unveils Infrastructure Processing Unit](https://www.intel.com/content/www/us/en/newsroom/news/infrastructure-processing-unit-data-center.html#gs.rapfq2) | N/A | N/A | N/A | N/A |
+| August 19: 5:00pm PST, Zoom | GUEST SPEAKER SESSION: TBD | N/A | N/A | N/A | N/A | N/A | N/A |
+| August 26: 5:00pm PST, Zoom | Course Summary | [Hints for Computer System Design - Butler Lampson](https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/research/wp-content/uploads/2016/02/acrobat-17.pdf) | N/A | N/A | N/A | N/A | N/A | N/A |
+| September 2: 5:00pm PST, Zoom | Meetup Wrapup | N/A | N/A | N/A | N/A | N/A | N/A |
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