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Here are some useful (and useless :-) documents I've written throughout my career in the hope that they'll be useful. Some of them are papers I wrote back in college days as homework for the courses at ENSI or in the framework of my research at the Laboratory for Networking and Distributed Systems (now Cristal).

• Virtualisation: pour un data centre flexible (en Français)
  [2009] Une revue peu technique des mérites de la virtualisation du point de vue du gestionnaire informatique.
• Kernel crash analysis
  [2009] A brief introduction to the handling of Linux kernel crashes and clues on analysing them. The presentation uses some supporting files.
• Le Logical Volume Manager dans Linux (en Français)
  [2008] Une introduction au Gestionnaire de Volumes Logiques (Logical Volume Manager, LVM) dans Linux. Presentation donnee a la Faculte des Sciences de Tunis en November 2008. Le fichier ODP est ici.
• HPC optimisations
  [2008] A presentation of some optimisations recommended for high-performance computing workloads on modern Linux systems and modern mid to high-end systems.
• Network performance troubleshooting
  [2008] A workshop which dissects the handling of networking data units in the Linux kernel and deduces some recommendations for troubleshooting and optimisation. The workshop uses some support files.
• Red Hat Desktop Course
  [2004] A course material on using Red Hat Desktop, it was intended for users migrating from Solaris to Linux, but should fit pretty well as an introduction to using Red Hat Enterprise Linux Desktop for daily productivity tasks.
• Securing e-mail with GNU PG
  [2004] A small tutorial on how to enable message signing and encryption in Kmail using GNU Privacy Guard.
• Developpement de Logiciels sous Linux (en Français)
  [2002] Une presentation sur les atouts de developper du logiciel sur Linux, disponible au format OpenOffice.org Impress (.sxi) et PDF
• Migrating to Linux (en Français) [2002] Presentation sur les raisons et motivations pour migrer a Linux, disponible au format OpenOffice.org Impress (.sxi) et PDF
  
• Software Developement with GNU Tools
  [2002] A short introduction to using GNU software development tools like GCC, indent, CVS and Make
  
• Project RedFire
  [2003] My MSc project dealing with Performance Evaluation of Commodity Systems for High-Performance Computing,
  
• Project Kobran
  [1997] Distributed Scheduling in Clusters of Computer Systems, it's a job scheduling system in a network of Unix/Linux machines,
  
• Efficiency vs. speed up
  [1997] A summary of a paper called "Effeciency vs Speed up in Parallel Systems" by D. Eager, E. Lazowska and J. Zahorjan,
  
• Simulation of a multimedia traffic through a router
  [1998] The design and implementation of a discrete event simulator in C++ that runs a simulation of two routing policies: FIFO and Earliest Packet Discard
  
• Little's algorithm for the TSP
  [1997] An implementation of the Little algorithm to solve the Traveller Salesman Problem in C
  
• Netscape plug-ins, Arabic script support and Internet search engines
  [1998] This is my graduation project, includes a study of supporting Arabic rendering
  
• Kohonen networks
  [1998] An overview of Kohonen neural networks, namely Learning Vector Quantisation (LVQ) and Self-Organising Maps (SOM)
  
• FAT spy
  [1996] Pascal code to browse a FAT file system without requiring an operating system support
• OS Base
  [1996] A historic ADA code that's implementing some vague ideas about GUIs, data bases and memory management. It's funny to see how an undergraduate with basic knowledge thinks about OS subsystems design
  

Last updated 2008-11-29.