18-746 Storage Systems (Fall 2021): Syllabus

Tentative Schedule

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Lecture Date Lecturer Topics Required readings Optional readings Notes
1 Mon 08/30 Greg Overview and Flash SSD Operation
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Syllabus, ArpaciDusseau2015 ch44, Agrawal2008 Hennessy2002, Harchol2000
2 Wed 09/01 Greg Flash SSD Operation and Lab 1 Walkthrough
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Agrawal2008 He2017, Mogul2009 Slides for the myFTL project are available here and here. Lab 1, Checkpoint 0 and Checkpoint 1 are released.
Mon 09/06 Neither No class (Labor Day)
3 Wed 09/08 Greg, George Flash SSD Operations (Wrap-up); 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 Mon 09/13 George Disk Drive Operation (cont'd); File System Storage Layout
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McKusick1996 ch8, Lee2015 Ren2013, Rodeh2013, ArpaciDusseau2015 ch40, ArpaciDusseau2015 ch43 The first 28 slides are covered in the class
5 Wed 09/15 Huaicheng File System Organization
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Vahalia1995 ch8 Giampaolo1998 ch2, ArpaciDusseau2015 ch39, ArpaciDusseau2015 ch40
6 Mon 09/20 Huaicheng, Greg FS Orgnization (Wrap-up), Caching and File System Integrity
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Ganger2000, Giampaolo1998 ch7 ArpaciDusseau2015 ch42, Fryer2012
7 Wed 09/22 Greg Caching and File System Integrity
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Ganger2000, Giampaolo1998 ch7 ArpaciDusseau2015 ch42, Fryer2012
8 Mon 09/27 Huaicheng Working Mechanism of the NVMe Interface
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NVMeSpecification, Yang11 NVMe-tutorial NVMeSpecification (Section 2-2.2.1 [p15-p19] + Section 3.3.1 [p79-p83]), NVMe-tutorial (slides 1-11)
9 Wed 09/29 George Disk Array Organization
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Chen1994, Schroeder2007 Schroeder2016, ArpaciDusseau2015 ch38
10 Mon 10/04 George Disk Array Systems
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Chen1994, Hetzler2011 Greenan2010, Krioukov2008
Wed 10/06 All 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 F18 Q, Exam1 F19 Q, Exam1 F20 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, Exam1 F18 A, Exam1 F19 A, Exam1 F20 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.
11 Mon 10/11 Rekha Pitchumani (Research Manager, Samsung) The Many Futures of NAND Flash SSDs
Our first guest lecture!
12 Wed 10/13 George Distributed FS and NAS Interfaces
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McKusick1996 ch9 Howard1988, ArpaciDusseau2015 ch47, ArpaciDusseau2015 ch48, ArpaciDusseau2015 ch49, RFC1813
13 Mon 10/18 George & Greg More Distributed FS and Multi-server Distributed FSes
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McKusick1996 ch9 Howard1988, ArpaciDusseau2015 ch47, ArpaciDusseau2015 ch48, ArpaciDusseau2015 ch49, RFC1813
14 Wed 10/20 Greg Remainder of Multi-server Distributed FSes
15 Mon 10/25 Greg Extremely scalable storage
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Ghemawat2003
16 Wed 10/27 Greg Reliability Enhancement Techniques
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Holland1994, Welch2008
17 Mon 11/01 Greg Scalable Table Stores
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Chang2006 Spanner
18 Wed 11/03 George Backup and data protection
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Keeton2004 Amvrosiadis2016
19 Mon 11/08 George LSM Trees and Applications
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TableFS DeltaFS-IMDs
20 Wed 11/10 Mike Kazar and Jeff Butler, Microsoft Azure HPC Cache and vFXT
Howard1988 RFC1813 Take a look at Azure HPC Cache and Avere vFXT for Azure.
21 Mon 11/15 Larry Greenfield, Storage Group, Google Evolution of Google FSs
Dean2013
22 Wed 11/17 Sara & Huaicheng Caching Billions of Tiny Objects on Flash & Host/Device Co-design for Strong Latency Predictability on Modern Flash Storage
Kangaroo, Kangaroo-Slides, IODA, IODA-Slides
23 Mon 11/22 Wenguang Wang (Senior Staff Engineer, VMware) vSAN, VDFS, and Their Cache Design
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Remote
Wed 11/24 Neither No class (Thanksgiving)
24 Mon 11/29 Eno Thereska, AWS Logs, objects and indexes - basic storage building blocks with subtle differences
Remote
Wed 12/01 All Exam 2
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Exam2 S15 Q, Exam2 F15 Q, Exam2 F16 Q, Exam2 F17 Q, Exam2 F18 Q, Exam2 F19 Q, Exam2 F20 Q Exam2 S15 A, Exam2 F15 A, Exam2 F16 A, Exam2 F17 A, Exam2 F18 Q, Exam2 F19 A, Exam2 F20 A

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