CSCI340 Inquiry Based Final Project

Goals

This project has the following goals:

Student sets out to answer a question about a topic related to Operating Systems.
Students devise a way to test and/or gain understanding about the question they are trying to ask through a hands on implementation of the concept.
- Should come up with a procedure or method for testing the effectiveness of known solutions or their solutions.
Students write up a document with their findings

Sample Questions

Recommended questions, you are welcome to propose a different one but these are pre-approved, if you want to answer a different question you need to get approval so email me with your question and how you plan to test it:

How does the performance of threads in C compare to one of the following languages?
- Python (multi-process)
- Rust
- Go
- Java
- Other (get approval)
What file system performs best for small files on Linux? Or alternatively what about for large files? (using IOzone, bonnie++, or dd for benchmarks)
- Consider at least 5 of the following filesystems:
  - ext4
  - ext2
  - xfs
  - FAT32
  - ZFS
  - BTRFS
  - NTFS (might be CIFS under linux)
How does the performance of differing IPC mechanisms compare in C to one of the following languages?
- Python
- Rust
- Go
- Java
- Other (get approval)
As an Extra Credit question: How much does Docker virtualization impact the performance of threads compared to a native system in one of the following languages?
- C
- Python
- Rust
- Go
- Java
- Other (get approval)

Evaluation

Your project will be graded based on the following components.

Paper - You will submit a short paper describing the following:
- What is your question
- Your experimental setup (machine, etc)
  - Are there any side effects or artifacts related to your experimental setup that might impact your results?
- How you ran your tests to answer your question
- Test results:
  - How accurate are they?
    - Make sure you run enough tests that your results are accurate enough.
  - Do you have variation in your test code?
    - DNS threads, matrix multiplication threads, other threaded applications?
    - Variations in block and file sizes?
    - Variations in size of data sent via IPC?
- Your conclusion/answer to the question
- What you learned from answering the question
Code - You must submit the code for your project along with the paper submission.

Project Submission

You will submit a tar.gz to INGInious system, the tar.gz should have the following:

PDF of your paper that discusses your results, analysis, motivation, conclusions, etc.
All of the code for you used for your project.
- Alternatively you can add me to a repository with all your code for the project, and just put a README in the tar.gz with the link to this repository.

Extra Credit

You can get an additional 10 points of extra credit for every additional question you answer.

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