THIS PRELIMINARY SCHEDULE IS SUBJECT TO CHANGE
| Week of | Monday | Wednesday |
|---|---|---|
| 8/31 - 9/4 |
L1: Overview of storage systems and perf. metrics | L2: Disk drive operation |
| 9/7 - 9/11 |
No class (Labor Day) | L3: Flash SSD operation |
| 9/14 - 9/18 |
L4: File system storage layout | Project 1 walk-thru
LAB 1 OUT |
| 9/21 - 9/25 |
L5: File system organization | L12: Backup and data protection |
| 9/28 - 10/2 |
Guest lecture:
Hugo Patterson Distinguished PDL Alum Co-founder and CTO, Datrium former CTO, Data Domain (acquired by EMC) Topic: Deduplicating Storage Systems |
L6: Caching and FS integrity |
| 10/5 - 10/9 |
L7: Storage Technologies revisited | L8: System metrics for storage |
| 10/12 - 10/16 |
L9: Disk array organization | L10: Disk array systems |
| 10/19 - 10/23 |
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 |
| 10/26 - 10/30 |
No class | |
| 11/2 - 11/6 |
L14: NAS and Decentralized Storage | L15: Parallel File Systems |
| 11/9 - 11/13 |
L16: Storage for data-intensive computing |
Project 2 intro |
| 11/16 - 11/20 |
catch up |
L17: Reliability enhancement techniques |
| 11/23 - 11/27 |
Guest speaker:
Larry Greenfield Storage group, Google Topic: Evolution of Google FS - 11/22: checkpoint 2 tests out: here |
No class (Thanksgiving) |
| 11/30 - 12/4 |
Guest speaker:
Niraj Tolia Senior Director, Software Engineering at EMC Previously Chief Architect and VP Eng., Maginetics Topic: |
L18: more storage virtualization (for Flash and distributed) 12/03: Checkpoint 3 out. 12/04: Handout updated, please redownload: - CloudFS part 3 specification [UPDATED] - Updated skeleton source |
| 12/7 - 12/11 |
Guest speaker:
Amber Huffman Senior Principle Engineer, Intel Topic: SCM (NVM) and the NVMe interface |
EXAM 2 (in class)
Fall'15: exam solns Spring'15: exam solns Spring'14: exam solns Spring'13: solns Fall'05: exam solns Spring'08: exam solns |