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| Lecture | Date | Lecturer | Topics | Required readings | Optional readings | Notes |
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| 1 | Mon 08/29 | Greg | Overview and Flash SSD Operation [pdf] |
Syllabus, ArpaciDusseau2015 ch44, Agrawal2008 | Hennessy2002, Harchol2000 | |
| 2 | Wed 08/31 | Greg | Flash SSD Operation and Lab 1 Walkthrough [pdf] |
Agrawal2008 | He2017, Mogul2009 | Slide for the myFTL project is available here. Lab 1, Checkpoint 0 is released. |
| Mon 09/05 | Neither | No class (Labor Day) |
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| 3 | Wed 09/07 | Greg, George | Flash SSD Operations (Wrap-up); Disk Drive Operation [pdf] |
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 | Mon 09/12 | George | Disk Drive Operation (cont'd); File System Storage Layout [pdf] |
McKusick1996 ch8, Lee2015 | Ren2013, Rodeh2013, ArpaciDusseau2015 ch40, ArpaciDusseau2015 ch43 | The first 28 slides are covered in the class |
| 5 | Wed 09/14 | George | File System Organization [pdf] |
Vahalia1995 ch8 | Giampaolo1998 ch2, ArpaciDusseau2015 ch39, ArpaciDusseau2015 ch40 | |
| 6 | Mon 09/19 | Greg, George | FS Orgnization (cont'd), Caching and File System Integrity [pdf] |
Ganger2000, Giampaolo1998 ch7 | ArpaciDusseau2015 ch42, Fryer2012 | |
| 7 | Wed 09/21 | Greg | Caching and File System Integrity |
Ganger2000, Giampaolo1998 ch7 | ArpaciDusseau2015 ch42, Fryer2012 | |
| 8 | Mon 09/26 | George | Disk Array Organization [pdf] |
Chen1994, Schroeder2007 | Schroeder2016, ArpaciDusseau2015 ch38 | |
| 9 | Wed 09/28 | George | Disk Array Systems [pdf] |
Chen1994, Hetzler2011 | Greenan2010, Krioukov2008, Daly1995 | |
| 10 | Mon 10/03 | Rekha Pitchumani (Research Manager, Samsung) | Current and Future Roles of Datacenter NAND Flash SSDs |
Lee2021, SamsungWhitePaper2021, Coughlin2022 | ||
| 11 | Wed 10/05 | George | Distributed FS and NAS Interfaces [pdf] |
McKusick1996 ch9 | Howard1988, ArpaciDusseau2015 ch47, ArpaciDusseau2015 ch48, ArpaciDusseau2015 ch49, RFC1813 | |
| Mon 10/10 | All | Exam 1 [pdf] |
Exam1 F17 Q, Exam1 F18 Q, Exam1 F19 Q, Exam1 F20 Q, Exam1 F21 Q | Exam1 F17 A, Exam1 F18 A, Exam1 F19 A, Exam1 F20 A, Exam1 F21 A | Exam 1 covers all material up to and including the lecture before the exam, including the projects. Try taking the Practice exams without looking at the answers. | |
| 12 | Wed 10/12 | Brian Gold (Founding Engineer, Pure Storage FlashBlade) | Scaling all-Flash storage arrays with HW/SW co-design |
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| Mon 10/17 | Neither | No class (Fall break) |
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| Wed 10/19 | Neither | No class (Fall break) |
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| 13 | Mon 10/24 | George & Greg | Distributed FS cont'd and Multi-server Distributed FSes [pdf] |
McKusick1996 ch9 | Howard1988, ArpaciDusseau2015 ch47, ArpaciDusseau2015 ch48, ArpaciDusseau2015 ch49, RFC1813 | |
| 14 | Wed 10/26 | Greg | Multi-server Distributed FSes cont'd and Extremely scalable storage [pdf] |
Ghemawat2003 | Kadekodi2020 | |
| 15 | Mon 10/31 | Greg | Extremely scalable storage |
Ghemawat2003 | ||
| 16 | Wed 11/02 | Greg | Reliability Enhancement Techniques [pdf] |
Holland1994, Welch2008 | Kadekodi2022 | |
| Mon 11/07 | Neither | No class |
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| 17 | Wed 11/09 | Greg | Scalable Table Stores [pdf] |
Chang2006 | Spanner, Dean2004, Burrows2006 | |
| 18 | Mon 11/14 | Larry Greenfield, Storage Group, Google | Evolution of Google FSs |
Dean2013 | ||
| 19 | Wed 11/16 | George | Backup and data protection [pdf] |
Keeton2004 | Amvrosiadis2016 | |
| 20 | Mon 11/21 | George | LSM Trees and Applications [pdf] |
LSM-Tree | Ren13, Zheng20 | From required reading, read Chapters 1, 2, 3.3, and 4 |
| Wed 11/23 | Neither | No class (Thanksgiving) |
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| 21 | Mon 11/28 | Jeff Butler, Microsoft | Azure HPC Cache and vFXT [pdf] |
Howard1988 | RFC1813 | Take a look at Azure HPC Cache and Avere vFXT for Azure. |
| 22 | Wed 11/30 | Wenguang Wang (Senior Staff Engineer, VMware) | vSAN, VDFS, and Their Cache Design [pdf] |
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| Mon 12/05 | Both | Exam 2 Q&A |
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| Wed 12/07 | All | Exam 2 [pdf] |
Exam2 F17 Q, Exam2 F18 Q, Exam2 F19 Q, Exam2 F20 Q, Exam2 F21 Q | Exam2 F17 A, Exam2 F18 A, Exam2 F19 A, Exam2 F20 A, Exam2 F21 A |
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