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 INFO UP to Exam1 IS AT ALL ACCURATE, AT THIS POINT. EVERYTHING ELSE IS JUST PLACEHOLDER
| Week of | Monday | Wednesday |
|---|---|---|
| 1/12 - 1/16 |
L1: Introduction and overview of storage systems | L2: Metrics of I/O system quality |
| 1/19 - 1/23 |
No class (MLK Day) | L3: Disk drive operation |
| 1/26 - 1/30 |
L4: Disk firmware and request optimization | L5: Flash storage |
| 2/2 - 2/6 |
L6: File system organization | L6 cont: FS organization (cont) LAB 1 OUT (autolab) - fsck paper |
| 2/9 - 2/13 |
L7: On-disk data layout | L8: Caching and FS integrity |
| 2/16 - 2/20 |
No class | Guest speaker on software for Flash |
| 2/23 - 2/27 |
L10: Disk array organization | L11: Disk array systems
LAB 1 DUE AT 11:59pm (2/28) |
| 3/2 - 3/6 |
EXAM 1 (7-10pm in GHC 4401) Spring'04: exam solns Fall'05: exam solns Fall'06: exam solns Spring'08: exam solns Spring'09: exam solns Spring'10: exam solns Spring'11: exam solns Spring'12: solns Spring'13: solns Spring'14: solns Spring'15: solns |
L12: Backup and data protection |
| 3/9 - 3/13 |
No class (Spring Break) | No class (Spring Break) |
| 3/16 - 3/20 |
L14: NAS and Decentralized Storage |
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| 3/23 - 3/27 |
L15: Parallel File Systems Project 2 OUT - Intro to Lab 2 - Project 2 Specification (parts 1 & 2) - VirtualBox Image (644 MB compressed) (uncompressed 2GB vdi file has MD5 07136d5e63eed3c050ef5584be1c8101) - Skeleton Source and Scripts (NEW Mar 24 1:30pm) - Data Domain's deduplication fs paper - BlueSky paper |
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| 3/30 - 4/3 |
L16: Con't |
L17: Reliability enhancement techniques |
| 4/6 - 4/10 |
Guest speaker:
Hugo Patterson Distinguished PDL Alum Co-founder and CTO, Datrium former CTO, Data Domain (acquired by EMC) Topic: Deduplicating Storage Systems |
L18: Flash FS |
| 4/13 - 4/17 |
Guest speaker:
Ram Kesavan WAFL Technical Director, NetApp Topic: Design and evolution of WAFL |
Guest Speaker:
Donpaul Stevens Founder & CEO Pi-Coral; Ex-founder of Violin Memory CMU Alumni Topic: Flash: Its not for performance anymore… |
| 4/20 - 4/24 |
Guest speaker:
Larry Greenfield Storage group, Google Topic: Evolution of Google FS |
Guest speaker:
Scott Hahn Storage Group, Intel Labs Topic: Systems with SCM (NVM) |
| 4/27 - 5/1 |
L19: Multi-core issues for FS/storage
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EXAM 2 (7-10pm in GHC 4401)
Spring'15: solns Spring'14: solns Spring'13: solns Fall'05: exam solns Spring'08: exam solns |