6.824 Spring 2017 Paper Questions

For each paper, your assignment is two-fold. By 10PM the evening before lecture:

Submit your answer for each lecture's paper question via the submission web site, and
Submit your own question about the paper (e.g., what you find most confusing about the paper or the paper's general context/problem). You cannot use the question below. To the extent possible, during lecture we will try to answer questions submitted the evening before.

You can also upload your questions and answers using curl:

## Answer goes into lecN.txt
$ curl -F file=@lec2.txt \
       -F key=XXXXXXXX \
       https://6824.scripts.mit.edu/2017/handin.py/upload
## Question goes into sqN.txt
$ curl -F file=@sq2.txt \
       -F key=XXXXXXXX \
       https://6824.scripts.mit.edu/2017/handin.py/upload

Lecture 13

Implementation and Performance of Munin The SOR application (see Section 4.2) with the producer-consumer pattern performs substantial better than with the write-shared pattern (see Table 6 on page 161). Why is the producer-consumer pattern a better fit for SOR than write-shared?

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