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| January | ||||
| Monday | Tuesday | Wednesday | Thursday | Friday |
| 06 | 07
11:30-12:50 Lecture
Gates G04 History Anderson et al. A Case for NOW, IEEE Micro 1995 Historical NOW Slides Ben Thompson, The Amazon Tax |
08 | 09
11:30-12:50 Lecture
Gates G04 Hardware Warehouse Scale Computing, 3rd edition, 2019, chapter 2.6-2.7, 3 Barrosso et al., Attack of the Killer Microseconds, CACM 2017 Summary: Ashlie; Advocate: Meghan; Skeptic: Lukas |
10 |
| 13
16:00-17:00 OH (tom)
Allen 646 |
14
11:30-12:50 Lecture
Gates G04 Reliability Warehouse Scale Computing, chapter 7 Mogul and Wilkes, Nines are Not Enough, HotOS 2019 Summary: Samantha; Advocate: Pratyush; Skeptic: Max |
15 | 16
11:30-12:50 Lecture
Gates G04 NO CLASS Power and Cost Warehouse Scale Computing, chapter 4-6 |
17 |
| 20
MLK Day
12:00 Project Stage 1 Due
One page proposal, giving the elevator pitch for the work. |
21
11:30-12:50 Lecture
Gates G04 ASICs Magaki et al., ASIC Clouds: Specializing the Data Center, ISCA 2016 Summary: Katie; Advocate: Emily; Skeptic: Ashlie High-level background: Khazraee et al., Specializing a Planets Computation: ASIC Clouds IEEE Micro |
22 | 23
11:30-12:50 Lecture
Gates G04 TPUs Jouppi et al., In Data Center Performance Analysis of a Tensor Processing Unit, ISCA 2017 Summary: Pratyush, Chien-Yu; Advocate: Max; Skeptic: Katie |
24 |
| 27 | 28
11:30-12:50 Lecture
Gates G04 FPGAs Firestone et al., Azure Accelerated Networking: SmartNICs in the Public Cloud, NSDI 2018 Summary: Johan; Advocate: Katie; Skeptic: Pratyush, Andrew |
29 | 30
11:30-12:50 Lecture
Gates G04 More FPGAs Alonso et al., Tackling Hardware/Software co-design from a database perspective, CIDR 2020 Summary: Emily; Advocate: Daniel; Skeptic: Meghan, Chien-Yu Calciu et al., Project PBerry: FPGA Acceleration for Remote Memory, HotOS 2019 Summary: Daniel, Xieyang; Advocate: Yuchen; Skeptic: Jack |
31 |
| February | ||||
| Monday | Tuesday | Wednesday | Thursday | Friday |
| 03
12:00 Project Stage 2 Due
Three page outline, finishing the introduction and providing a description of the principal quantitative evaluation. |
04
11:30-12:50 Lecture
Gates G04 Scalable Networks Singh et al., Jupiter Rising: A Decade of Clos Topologies and Centralized Control in Googles Datacenter Network, SIGCOMM 2015 Summary: Yuchong; Advocate: Johan; Skeptic: Xieyang Xu |
05 | 06
11:30-12:50 Lecture
Gates G04 RDMA RDMA over Ethernet at Scale, SIGCOMM 2016 Summary: Luke; Advocate: Ashlie; Skeptic: Tapan |
07 |
| 10 | 11
11:30-12:50 Lecture
Gates G04 Software-Defined Networks Feamster et al., The Road to SDN, ACM Queue 2013 Summary: Meghan; Advocate: Arthur; Skeptic: Johan, Su Ye Background: Shenker video, The Future of Networking and the Past of Protocols |
12 | 13
11:30-12:50 Lecture
Gates G04 Network Evolution Govindan et al., Evolve or Die: High-Availability Design Principles Drawn from Google’s Network Infrastructure, SIGCOMM 2016 Summary: Arthur, Sujie; Advocate: Henry, Yuchong; Skeptic: Yuchen |
14 |
| 17
President's Day
12:00 Project Stage 3 Due ~~ Moved 2/25~~
Add a discussion of related work and sketch the system design. |
18
11:30-12:50 Lecture
Gates G04 Resource Allocation M. Dalton et al., Andromeda: Performance, isolation, and velocity at scale in cloud network virtualization, NSDI 2018 Summary: Justin; Advocate: Samantha; Skeptic: Jialin, Yuchong Lo et al., Heracles: Improving Resource Efficiency at Scale, ISCA 2015 Summary: Max, Andrew; Advocate: Xieyang, Chien-Yu; Skeptic: Emily |
19 | 20
11:30-12:50 Lecture
Gates G04 RPCs Kalia et al., Datacenter RPCs can be General and Fast, NSDI 2019 Summary: Yuchen; Advocate: Tapan; Skeptic: Henry |
21 |
| 24 | 25
11:30-12:50 Lecture
Gates G04 NO CLASS (NSDI)
12:00 Project Stage 3 Due
Add a discussion of related work, system design, and any preliminary performance numbers. |
26 | 27
11:30-12:50 Lecture
Gates G04 Sharding Adya et al., Slicer: Autosharding for Datacenter Applications, OSDI 16 Summary: Lequn; Advocate: Luke; Skeptic: Sujie |
28 |
| March | ||||
| Monday | Tuesday | Wednesday | Thursday | Friday |
| 02
12:00 Project Stage 4 Due ~~ Moved to 2/25 ~~
Finish the description of the system design and add any preliminary performance numbers. |
03
11:30-12:50 Lecture
Gates G04 Containers Manco et al., My VM is Lighter (and Safer) than your Container, SOSP 17 Summary: Tapan; Advocate: Jialin, Andrew; Skeptic: Luke Jonas et al., Occupy the Cloud: Distributed Computing for the 99% Summary: Jialin; Advocate: Sujie; Skeptic: Lequn, Samantha |
04 | 05
11:30-12:50 Lecture
Gates G04 NVM Kwon et al., Strata: A Cross Media File System, SOSP 17 Summary: Henry; Advocate: Lequn, Su Ye; Skeptic: Daniel |
06 |
| 09 | 10
11:30-12:50 Lecture
Gates G04 Flash Tang et al. RIPQ: Advanced Photo Caching on Flash for Facebook, FAST’15 Summary: Jack; Advocate: Justin, Lukas; Skeptic: Arthur |
11 | 12
11:30-12:50 Lecture
Gates G04 Disks Brewer et al., Disks for Datacenters, FAST 2016 Summary: Su Ye, Lukas; Advocate: Jack; Skeptic: Justin |
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| 16
12:00 Project Stage 5 Due
Complete project writeup and poster presentation |
17 | 18 | 19 | 20 |
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