18-746 Schedule (Fall 2005)

Last modified: Mon Dec 12 00:43:21 EST 2005

(Note: This schedule is subject to change, especially in terms of the lecture contents and lecture order.)

Week of	Tuesday	Thursday
8/29 - 9/2	L1: Introduction and overview of storage systems HW 0 out (pdf) (ps)	L2: Metrics of I/O system quality HW 1 out (pdf) (ps) Lab 1 out (pdf) (ps) (disksim emulator)
9/5 - 9/9	L3: Disk drive operation HW 0 DUE : solns (pdf) (ps)	L4: Disk drive firmware
9/12 - 9/16	L5: Disk request optimization	L6: File system organization
9/19 - 9/23	L7: On-disk data layout HW 1 DUE: solns (pdf) (ps) HW 2 out(pdf) (ps)	No class (tenative)
9/26 - 9/30	L8: Caching and FS integrity	L9: Database storage management
10/3 - 10/7	L10: Storage protocols, controllers, and device drivers LAB 1 DUE Lab 2 out (pdf) (ps) - gzipped files - fsck paper	L11: Storage networking HW 2 DUE : solns (pdf) (ps) HW 3 out(pdf) (ps)
10/10 - 10/14	EXAM 1: solns (pdf) (ps) (Spring'04 exam, Spring'04 solns) (Spring'03 exam, Spring'03 solns)	L12: Disk array organization
10/17 - 10/21	No class	L13: Disk array systems
10/24 - 10/28	No class	L14: Distributed file systems LAB 2 DUE
10/31 - 11/4	L15: NAS interfaces	L16: Virtualization HW 3 DUE solns (ps)(pdf) HW 4 out (pdf) (ps)
11/7 - 11/11	L17: Cooperating caches, proxies and CDNs	L18: Backup and disaster recovery
11/14 - 11/18	L19: Storage access control	L20: Distributed storage security
11/21 - 11/25	L21: Capacity planning Lab 3 out (pdf) (ps) (src) (updated files) (Failure simulation)	No class (Thanksgiving)
11/28 - 12/2	Guest speaker: Erik Reidel Seagate Research Topic: Storage Technology Futures HW 4 DUE solns: (ps) (pdf)	EXAM 2: solns (pdf) (ps) (Spring'04 exam, Spring'04 solns) (Spring'03 exam, Spring'03 solns)
12/5 - 12/9	Guest speaker: TBD Title, employer Topic: TBD	Guest speaker: Garth Gibson CTO, Panasas Topic: High-Performance Distributed Systems