18-746 Storage Systems (Fall 2018): Syllabus

Tentative Schedule

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Lecture Date Lecturer Topics Required readings Optional readings Notes
1 Mon 08/27 Greg Overview and Performance Metrics
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Hennessy2002 Harchol2000
2 Wed 08/29 Greg Flash SSD Operation
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Agrawal2008 He2017, Mogul2009
Mon 09/03 Neither No class (Labor Day)
Wed 09/05 Greg Lab 1 Walkthrough
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Lab 1, Checkpoint 1 is released.
3 Mon 09/10 George Disk Drive Operation
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Ruemmler1994, Worthington1994 Massiglia1986 ch2 1, Massiglia1986 ch2 2, Massiglia1986 ch12, ArpaciDusseau2015 ch37 Read pages 2-1 to 2-20 from Massiglia_ch2_1, 2-38 to 2-52 from Massiglia_ch2_2, and 12-1 to 12-11 from Massiglia_ch12.
4 Wed 09/12 George File System Storage Layout
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McKusick1996 ch8, Lee2015 Ren2013, Rodeh2013, ArpaciDusseau2015 ch40, ArpaciDusseau2015 ch43 Lab 1, Checkpoint 1 is due on Friday 9/14.
5 Mon 09/17 George File System Organization
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Vahalia1995 ch8 Giampaolo1998 ch2, ArpaciDusseau2015 ch39, ArpaciDusseau2015 ch40
6 Wed 09/19 Greg Caching and File System Integrity
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Ganger2000, Giampaolo1998 ch7 ArpaciDusseau2015 ch42, Fryer2012
7 Mon 09/24 George Disk Array Organization
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Chen1994, Schroeder2007 Schroeder2016, ArpaciDusseau2015 ch38 Lab 1, Checkpoint 2 is due.
8 Wed 09/26 George Disk Array Systems
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Chen1994, Hetzler2011 Greenan2010, Krioukov2008
Mon 10/01 Ram Kesavan, Technical Director, NetApp Design and Evolution of WAFL (Guest Lecture)
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Hitz1994 Kesavan2017, Maury2017, Maury2016, Denz2016, Kumar2017
9 Wed 10/03 Rajat Kateja, ECE Dept. Non-Volatile Memory File Systems
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Dulloor2014 Condit2009, Xu2016
Sat 10/06 Both Exam 1 Q&A
The review will take place at DH 2315, from 4 to 5pm on Saturday October 6.
Mon 10/08 Both Exam 1
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Exam1 S04 Q, Exam1 F05 Q, Exam1 F06 Q, Exam1 S08 Q, Exam1 S09 Q, Exam1 S10 Q, Exam1 S11 Q, Exam1 S14 Q, Exam1 S15 Q, Exam1 F15 Q, Exam1 F16 Q, Exam1 F17 Q Exam1 S04 A, Exam1 F05 A, Exam1 F06 A, Exam1 S08 A, Exam1 S09 A, Exam1 S10 A, Exam1 S11 A, Exam1 S12 A, Exam1 S13 A, Exam1 S14 A, Exam1 S15 A, Exam1 F15 A, Exam1 F16 A, Exam1 F17 A Exam 1 covers all material up to and including the week before the exam, including the projects. Try taking the Practice exams without looking at the answers.
Wed 10/10 Bob Royer, Principle Engineer, Intel Optane SSDs - Technology, Design, Futures (Guest Lecture)
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Hady2017 Huffman2013
10 Mon 10/15 Greg Distributed FS and NAS Interfaces (Part I)
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McKusick1996 ch9 Howard1988, ArpaciDusseau2015 ch47, ArpaciDusseau2015 ch48, ArpaciDusseau2015 ch49, RFC1813
Wed 10/17 Jun Woo Park, CS Dept. Lab 2 Walkthrough
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Lab 2, Checkpoint 1 is released.
11 Mon 10/22 Greg Distributed FS and NAS Interfaces (Part II)
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L11 is a continuation of L10, same readings apply.
Wed 10/24 Hugo Patterson, Chief Scientist and Co-Founder, Datrium Datrium DVFS, A Self-Protecting Multi-Cloud File System
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Quinlan2002, Zhu2008 Muthitacharoen2001
Mon 10/29 Neither No class (PDL Retreat)
Lab 2, Checkpoint 1 due.
12 Wed 10/31 Brad Settlemyer, Los Alamos National Lab HPC Storage Systems - Serving Data to the Lunatic Fringe
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13 Mon 11/05 Greg Multi-server Distributed File Systems
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Anderson1995 Readings from Lecture L10 also apply to L12.
14 Wed 11/07 Greg Extremely scalable storage
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Ghemawat2003, Chang2006 Dean2004
15 Mon 11/12 Larry Greenfield, Storage Group, Google Evolution of Google FSs
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Dean2013
16 Wed 11/14 Greg Reliability enchancement techniques
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Holland1994, Welch2008 Lab 2, Checkpoint 2 due.
17 Mon 11/19 Ioan Stefanovici, Systems and Networking Group, Microsoft Research Glass - A New Media for a New Era?
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Anderson2018
Wed 11/21 Neither No class (Thanksgiving)
18 Mon 11/26 George Backup and data protection
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Keeton2004 Amvrosiadis2016
19 Wed 11/28 George Parallel file systems
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Schmuck2002, Welch2008, Bent2016 Lab 2, Checkpoint 3 due on 11/29. Lab 2 Report due on 12/1.
Mon 12/03 Both Exam 2 Q&A
Wed 12/05 Both Exam 2
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Exam2 F05 Q, Exam2 S08 Q, Exam2 S09 Q, Exam2 S10 Q, Exam2 S11 Q, Exam2 S14 Q, Exam2 S15 Q, Exam2 F15 Q, Exam2 F16 Q, Exam2 F17 Q Exam2 F05 A, Exam2 S08 A, Exam2 S09 A, Exam2 S10 A, Exam2 S11 A, Exam2 S12 A, Exam2 S13 A, Exam2 S14 A, Exam2 S15 A, Exam2 F15 A, Exam2 F16 A, Exam2 F17 A Exam 2 covers all material up to and including the week before the exam, including the projects. Try taking the Practice exams without looking at the answers.

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