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
| Week of | Monday | Wednesday |
|---|---|---|
| 8/28 - 9/1 |
L1: Overview of storage systems and perf. metrics | L2: Flash SSD operation |
| 9/4 - 9/8 |
No class (Labor Day) | Project 1 Intro: myFTL LAB 1 OUT |
| 9/11 - 9/15 |
L3: Disk drive operation | L4: File system storage layout |
| 9/18 - 9/22 |
L5: File system organization | L6: Caching and FS integrity |
| 9/25 - 9/29 |
L7: Potpourri | L8: Disk array organization |
| 10/2 - 10/6 |
Guest speaker:
Ram Kesavan WAFL Technical Director, NetApp Topic: Design and Evolution of WAFL |
L9: Disk array systems |
| 10/9 - 10/13 |
Continue L10 | |
| 10/16 - 10/20 |
Catch-up and Exam 1 Q&A | EXAM 1 (in class) 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: exam solns Spring'15: exam solns Fall'15: exam solns Fall'16: exam solns Fall'17: exam solns |
| 10/23 - 10/27 |
No class | Project 2 Intro: CloudFS LAB 2 OUT |
| 10/30 - 11/3 |
Guest speaker:
Frank Hady Intel Fellow and Director of NVM Platform Arch. Topic: NVM in computer systems |
L11: Multi-server Distributed file systems |
| 11/6 - 11/10 |
L12: Parallel File Systems |
L13: Backup and Data Protection |
| 11/13 - 11/17 |
L15: Reliability enhancement techniques | |
| 11/20 - 11/24 |
Guest speaker:
Larry Greenfield Storage group, Google Topic: Evolution of Google FS |
No class (Thanksgiving) |
| 11/27 - 12/1 |
Exam Q&A |
EXAM 2 (in class)
Fall'17: exam solns Fall'16: exam solns Fall'15: exam solns Spring'15: exam solns Spring'14: exam solns Spring'13: solns Fall'05: exam solns Spring'08: exam solns |
| 12/4 - 12/8 |
L16: Non-Volatile Memory file systems | Guest speaker:
Bin Fan Software Engineer, Alluxio Topic: Distributed Memory-based Storage |