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
ONLY THE FIRST FEW WEEKS ARE AT ALL ACCURATE, AT THIS POINT
Week of | Monday | Wednesday |
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1/16 - 1/20 |
No class (MLK Day) | L1: Introduction and overview of storage systems |
1/23 - 1/27 |
L2: Metrics of I/O system quality | L3: Disk drive operation |
1/30 - 2/3 |
L3 cont: Disk operation and firmware | L4: Disk firmware and request optimization |
2/6 - 2/10 |
L5: File system organization | L6: On-disk data layout Lab 1 out (autolab) - fsck paper |
2/13 - 2/17 |
L7: Caching and FS integrity | No class |
2/20 - 2/24 |
L8: Disk array organization | L9: Disk array systems |
2/27 - 3/2 |
L10: Flash storage |
More Flash plus NVM |
3/5 - 3/9 |
EXAM 1 Spring'12: solns Spring'11: solns Spring'04: exam solns Fall'05: exam solns Fall'06: exam solns Spring'08: exam solns Spring'09: exam solns Spring'10: exam solns |
L11: Disk request optimization
LAB 1 DUE AT MIDNIGHT (3/9) |
3/12 - 3/16 |
No class (Spring Break) | No class (Spring Break) |
3/19 - 3/23 |
L12: start on Distributed file systems Lab 2 out - Handout and Slides - VirtualBox Images - Skeleton Source and Scripts |
L13: more Distributed file systems and NAS Interfaces |
3/26 - 3/30 |
L14: Storage for data-intensive computing | Guest speaker:
Erik Riedel, EMC Senior Director of Tech & Arch Cloud Infrastructure Group at EMC Topic: Cloud Computing and Storage |
4/2 - 4/6 |
L15: Parallel File Systems | L16: Backup and disaster recovery |
4/9 - 4/13 |
L17: Reliability enhancement techniques | L18: Multi-core issues for FS/storage |
4/16 - 4/20 |
L19: Storage Virtualization | Guest speaker:
Nitin Agrawal Research Staff Member Storage Systems Group, NEC Labs Topic: Storage for Mobile Devices |
4/23 - 4/27 |
L18: Catch-up and Exam 2 Q&A |
EXAM 2
Spring'12: solns Fall'05: exam solns Spring'08: exam solns |
4/30 - 5/4 |
Guest speaker:
Mike Kazar CTO, Avere Systems Topic: Lessons from building storage products |
Guest speaker:
Hugo Patterson Distinguished PDL Alum was CTO of DataDomain (acquired by EMC) Topic: Data Deduplication |