18-746/15-746 Schedule (Spring 2009)

Last modified: Sat Jan 17 12:43:21 EST 2009

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

Week of Monday Wednesday
1/12
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1/16
L1: Introduction and overview of storage systems

HW 0 out (pdf) (ps)

L2: Metrics of I/O system quality

HW 1 out (pdf) (ps)

1/19
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1/23
No class (MLK Day) L3: Disk drive operation

HW 0 DUE : solns (pdf) (ps)
Lab 1 out (pdf) (ps)

1/26
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1/30
L3 cont: Disk operation and firmware L4: Disk firmware and request optimization
2/2
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2/6
L5: Disk request optimization L6: Flash storage

HW 1 DUE : solns (pdf) (ps)

2/9
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2/13
L7: File system organization L8: On-disk data layout
HW 2 out (pdf) (ps)
2/16
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2/20
L9: Caching and FS integrity
LAB 1 DUE
Lab 2 out (pdf) (ps) - gzipped files - fsck paper
L10: Storage protocols, controllers, and device drivers
2/23
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2/27
L11: Storage networking EXAM 1 (Solns)

(Spring'08 solns)
(Fall'06 exam, Fall'06 solns) (Fall'05 exam, Fall'05 solns)
(Spring'04 exam, Spring'04 solns) (Spring'03 exam, Spring'03 solns)

3/2
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3/6
L12: Disk array organization

HW 2 DUE : solns (pdf) (ps)

L13: Disk array systems

LAB 2 DUE FRIDAY THE 6TH

3/9
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3/13
No class (Spring Break) No class (Spring Break)
3/16
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3/20
L14: Distributed file systems L15: NAS interfaces
3/23
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3/27
Guest speaker: Marc Unangst
Architect, Panasas
Topic: Parallel File Systems
Guest speaker: John Bent
Los Alamos Nat'l Lab
Topic: Storage for Petascale Computing
3/30
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4/3
Project 3 Discussion
Lab 3 out, Handout(pdf)
Lecture Slides(pdf), Lab 3 code(zip)
Fixed plfs binaries(tgz)
L16: Virtualization
4/6
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4/10
Guest speaker: Brent Welch
Director of Software Arch, Panasas
Topic: Lessons from the trenches
L17: Storage security
4/13
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4/17
L18: Backup and disaster recovery L19: Storage for data-intensive computing
4/20
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4/24
L17: Storage security
MAKE UP DATE
EXAM 2: solns

(Spring'08 solns)
(Fall'06 solns) (Fall'05 solns)
(Spring'04 exam, Spring'04 solns) (Spring'03 exam, Spring'03 solns)

4/27
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5/1
Guest speaker: Erik Riedel
Seagate Research
Topic: Personal/home storage
L19: Storage for data-intensive computing
MAKE UP DATE