Course Schedule

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Date	Topic	Discussion Questions	Core Reading	Lecture notes		More info	Project	Observations
Sept. 7	Introduction	Overview of the federated architecture  and kernel  What is a scalable and reliable system?  What classes of applications should such machines support?		Thumbnails	Full Slides
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Sept. 14	Machine Architecture	How should a machine be partitioned?  What is the right mix of processors and interconnect?	Netstation, Now , teradata, Origin ,	ps.gz html	ps.gz html	Flash
Sept  21	Performance Analysis	What does "faster" mean?  Latency vs. throughput  tradeoffs.  When is each important?	LogP, netPerf , pipeline	ps.gz html	ps.gz html	logpComp, logGp		submit
Sept. 28	Communication interfaces	What are the key communication abstractions?  How are they implemented?	Afterburner,VIA ,shrimp	ps.gz html	ps.gz html	rqueue, Unet		submit
Oct. 5	Storage Interfaces	How does the storage system interact with the filesystem?	GFS, storage , swarm	ps.gz html	ps.gz html	petal		submit
Oct. 12	I/O execution environments	What kinds of support does out-board executution need?	SPINE, Jive	(1)ps.gz (2)ps.gz		evino		submit
Oct. 19	Applications	How does one structure applications?	streamIO, porcupine inktomi	ps.gz html	ps.gz html	sddata	Initial Project Ideas	submit
Oct. 26	Kernel structure	How should the base system be partitioned?	qnx, Unix, inferno	ps.gz html	ps.gz html			submit
Nov. 2	Kernel interfaces	What abstractions support the software  while running efficiently on real hardware?	Streams, Vnodes	ps.gz html	ps.gz html			submit
Nov. 9	Fault Tolerance-I	How do machines fail?  What is theoretic framework for understanding faults?	stop, SixSigma , census	ps.gz html	ps.gz html			submit
11/16/99	Fault Tolerance-II	What are system structures to prevent faults?	ft-unix, hive , non-stop OS	ps.gz html	ps.gz html			submit
11/23/99	No Class	-	-			-	- -	-
11/30/99	File systems	What are the interfaces to the filesystem?  How can the architecture support these?	Xfs, Frangipani	ps.gz html	ps.gz html			submit
Dec. 7	Wrap-up	review of course		ps.gz html	ps.gz html			submit
Dec. 17							Final Write Up