Sample Project Ideas:

• Implement OS Paper idea in Linux
• Create tools to help assess application performance
• Create a P2P service
• Modify any enhancement presented in class
• OS security enhancement
• Process/communication migration
• QoS enhancement to Linux
• Develop a new (distributed) filesystem feature/enhancement
• Create a distributed service
• Survey paper on an OS topic with experiments
• Modify an OS process scheduling, IO request scheduling, or page replacement algorithm
• Use Hadoop (Map/Reduce) to data mine interesting datasets