18-546: 2002 Spring Schedule

Week Monday Wednesday Friday
1/14
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1/18
L1: Intro and overview of storage systems

HW 0 Out

L2: Metrics of I/O system quality L3: Disk drive operation
1/21
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1/25
No Classes - Martin Luther King Day L4: Disk drive firmware
HW 1 Out
HW 0 Due Solns
L5: Disk request optimization
1/28
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2/1
No class No class No class
2/4
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2/8
L6: File system organization L7: On-disk layout
HW 1 Due Solns
Proj1 Out -- TAR File
Guest: Dave Anderson
Strategic Director, Seagate
Topic: Disk Drives
2/11
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2/15
L8: Caching and FS integrity
HW 2 Out
L9: Database storage management L10: Storage protocols, controllers, and device drivers
2/18
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2/22
L11: Storage interconnects Guest: Wayne Rickard
CTO, Gadzoox Networks
Topic: Storage Networking
Proj 1 Due
L12: Storage Networking
2/25
-
3/1
L13: Distributed file systems
HW 2 Due Solns
L14: Multi-disk systems L15: Disk array organizations
3/4
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3/8
Guest: Steve Kleiman
CTO, Network Appliance
Topic: Distributed File Systems
Exam 1 Solns
Proj2 out -- TAR File
No classes (mid-semester break)
3/11
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3/15
L16: Disk array systems L17: Decentralized storage services Guest: Ric Wheeler
Principle Design Engineer, EMC
Topic: Disk Array Systems
3/18
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3/22
L18: Virtualization & server coordination L19: Backup & disaster recovery
HW 3 Out
No class
3/25
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3/29
L20: Cooperating caches, proxies & CDNs L21: Storage access control
Proj 2 Due
No class
4/1
-
4/5
No Classes - Spring Break No Classes - Spring Break No Classes - Spring Break
4/8
-
4/12
L22: Storage security Guest: Jim Hughes
StorageTek Fellow
Topic: Storage Security
HW 3 Due Solns
Guest: John Wilkes
Principle Researcher, HP
Topic: Storage Management
4/15
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4/19
No class Guest: Harald Skardal
SNIA Virtualization, NetApp
Topic: Virtualization & Mgmt
HW 4 Out
No class
4/22
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4/26
L23: Capacity planning L24: Alternate storage technologies Guest: Roger Cummings
SNIA Storage Security, Veritas
Topic: Storage Security
4/29
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5/3
Catch-up, review, and wrap-up
HW 4 Due Solns
Exam 2 No class


This schedule was last updated: 03/20/02