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THIS SCHEDULE IS SUBJECT TO CHANGE: IT IS A WORK IN PROGRESS THAT IS HIGHLY LIKELY TO BE INACCURATE, INCLUDING DATES ON ASSIGNMENTS, EXAMS AND GUEST LECTURES

ONLY THE FIRST FEW WEEKS ARE AT ALL ACCURATE, AT THIS POINT

 

Week of Monday Wednesday
1/16
-
1/20
No class (MLK Day) L1: Introduction and overview of storage systems
1/23
-
1/27
L2: Metrics of I/O system quality L3: Disk drive operation
1/30
-
2/3
L3 cont: Disk operation and firmware L4: Disk firmware and request optimization
2/6
-
2/10
L5: File system organization L6: On-disk data layout
Lab 1 out (autolab)
- fsck paper
2/13
-
2/17
L7: Caching and FS integrity No class
2/20
-
2/24
L8: Disk array organization L9: Disk array systems
2/27
-
3/2
L10: Flash storage

More Flash plus NVM
3/5
-
3/9
EXAM 1
Spring'12: solns
Spring'11: solns
Spring'04: exam solns Fall'05: exam solns
Fall'06: exam solns Spring'08: exam solns
Spring'09: exam solns Spring'10: exam solns
L11: Disk request optimization

LAB 1 DUE AT MIDNIGHT (3/9)

3/12
-
3/16
No class (Spring Break) No class (Spring Break)
3/19
-
3/23
L12: start on Distributed file systems
Lab 2 out
- Handout and Slides
- VirtualBox Images
- Skeleton Source and Scripts
L13: more Distributed file systems and NAS Interfaces
3/26
-
3/30
L14: Storage for data-intensive computing
Guest speaker: Erik Riedel, EMC
Senior Director of Tech & Arch
Cloud Infrastructure Group at EMC
Topic: Cloud Computing and Storage
4/2
-
4/6
L15: Parallel File Systems L16: Backup and disaster recovery
4/9
-
4/13
L17: Reliability enhancement techniques L18: Multi-core issues for FS/storage
4/16
-
4/20
L19: Storage Virtualization Guest speaker: Nitin Agrawal
Research Staff Member
Storage Systems Group, NEC Labs
Topic: Storage for Mobile Devices
4/23
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4/27
L18: Catch-up and Exam 2 Q&A
EXAM 2 Spring'12: solns

Fall'05: exam solns Spring'08: exam solns
Spring'09: exam solns Spring'10: exam solns
Spring'11: exam solns

4/30
-
5/4
Guest speaker: Mike Kazar
CTO, Avere Systems
Topic: Lessons from building storage products
Guest speaker: Hugo Patterson
Distinguished PDL Alum
was CTO of DataDomain (acquired by EMC)
Topic: Data Deduplication