Systems seminar (590S): Winter 2007

Wednesdays 1:30-2:20pm, in CSE 403

• Jan 10 - organizational meeting.

• Jan 17 -- (Alex Moshchuk) The Google File system, by Bhemawat, Gobioff, and Leung.

• Jan 24 -- (Colin Dixon) MapReduce: Simplified Data Processing on Large Clusters, by Dean and Ghemawat.

• Jan 31 -- (Tanya Bragin) Sealing OS PRocesses to Improve Dependability and Security, by Hunt et al.

• Feb 7 -- (Roxana Geambasu) Make it Fresh, Make it Quick -- Searching a Network of Personal Webservers, by Bawa, Bayardo, Jr., Rajagopalan, and Shekita. and Exploiting Social Networks for Internet Search, by Mislove, Gummadi, and Druschel.

• Feb 14 -- (Charlie Reis) Interpreting the Data: Parallel Analysis with Sawzall, by Pike, Dorward, Griesemer, and Quinlan.

• Feb 21 -- no class today

• Feb 28 -- guest speaker: YY Zhou, Univ. of Illinois, "Fighting the (negative) consequences of concurrency" (in the Gates Commons)

• Mar 7 -- guest speaker: Nick Kirsch, The Isilon Clustered Storage System