Presentation Schedule

Virtualization

• September 6, 2007: Intro to Virtualization (Prashant Shenoy)
  The Architecture of Virtual Machines, J Smith, R. Nair, IEEE Computer, May 2005. [pdf]
Virtual machine monitors: current technology and future trends, M. Rosenblum and T. Garfinkel, IEEE Computer, May 2005.
Operating System Support for Virtual Machines, S. King, G. Dunlap, and P. Chen, Proc.USENIX 2003
[Historical Perspective (optional)] The Origin of the VM/370 Time-Sharing System, R. Creasy, IBM Journ. Res. and Dev

• Sept 11, 2007: Upendra Sharma
  Complete Computer Simulation: The SimOS Approach M. Rosenblum, S. A. Herrod, E. Witchel, and A. Gupta, IEEE Parallel and Distributed Technology, 1995
  Disco: Running Commodity Operating Systems on Scalable Multiprocessors, E. Bugnion, S. Devine, and M. Rosenblum. Proc. of 16th SOSP, 1997.

  Sept 13, 2007: Upendra Sharma and Byn Choi

  Upendra: Xen and the Art of Virtualization, P. Barham, B. Dragovic, K. Fraser, S. Hand, T. Harris, A. Ho, R. Neugebauer, I. Pratt, and A. Warfield, Proc. SOSP 2003
  Byn: Live Migration of Virtual Machines, C. Clark, K. Fraser, S. Hand, J. Hansen, E. Jul, C. Limpach, I. Pratt, and A. Warfiel Proc. NSDI 2005

• Sept 18, 2007: Akshat and Samant
  Akshat Memory Resource Management in VMWare ESX Server, C. Waldspurger, Proc. of OSDI 2002.
  Samant Optimizing Network Virtualization in Xen, A. Menon, A. Cox, W. Zwaenepoel, Proc. of USENIX 2006

SysML: Machine Learning for Utility Computing

• Sept 20, 2007 Rahul
  Rahul Active and Accelerated Learning of Cost Models for Optimizing Scientific Applications, by P. Shivam, S. Babu, J. Chase. In International Conference on Very Large Data Bases (VLDB), September 2006.
  Rahul Learning Application Models for Utility Resource Planning, by P. Shivam, S. Babu, J. Chase. In IEEE International Conference on Autonomic Computing (ICAC), June 2006.

• Friday Sept 28, 2007: Rahul and Gautham
  Rahul: A Regression-Based Analytic Model for Dynamic Resource Provisioning of Multi-Tier Applications Qi Zhang, Lucy Cherkasova, and Evgenia Smirni, Proc. of ICAC 2007.
  Gautham: Autonomic Provisioning of Backend Databases in Dynamic Content Web Servers, J. Chen, C. Amza, G. Soundararajan, Proc. of ICAC 2006

• Monday Oct 1, 2007: Tony and Nilanjan
  Tony Weatherman: Automated, Online, and Predictive Thermal Mapping and Management for Data Centers, J. Moore, J. Chase, and P. Ranganathan, Proc. of ICAC 2007.
  Nilanjan DejaView: A Personal Virtual Computer Recorder O. Laadan, R. A. Baratto, D. Phung, S. Potter, and J. Nieh, Proc. of 21st SOSP, October 2007.

  Tuesday, Oct 9: Nilanjan

  Nilanjan: VirtualPower: Coordinated Power Management in Virtualized Enterprise Systems Ripal Nathuji and Karsten Schwan, Proc. of SOSP 2007.

  Thursday, Oct 11 Guest Lecture by David Irwin

  Sharing Networked Resources with Brokered Leases D. Irwin, J. Chase, L. Grit, A. Yumerefendi, D. Becker, Proc. of Usenix 2006.

  Virtual Machine Hosting for Networked Clusters: Building the Foundations for Autonomic Orchestrations L. Grit, D. Irwin, A. Yumerefendi, J. Chase, Proc. of VTDC 2006

  Tuesday, Oct 16: Project Proposals due

  Slides for the proposals are on the course wiki (available from the Projects link)

Self-* Systems

• Thursday, Oct 18: Dan
  overview paper on stream processing: Monitoring Streams: A New Class of Data Management Applications Prov. VLDB 2002.
  Another overview paper: Multi-site cooperative data stream analysis
  Main paper from reading list: Towards Autonomic Fault Recovery in System-S, Gabriela Jacques-Silva, Jim Challenger, Lou Degenaro, James Giles, Rohit Wagle Proc. of ICAC 2007.

  Tuesday, Oct 23: Dan and Divya

  Dan: Staged Deployment in Mirage, an Integrated Software Upgrade Testing and Distribution System, O. Crameri, N. Knezevic, D. Kostic, R. Bianchini, and W. Zwaenepoel, Proc. of 21st SOSP, October 2007.

  Divya Autonomic Reactive Systems via Online Learning, Sanjit Seshia, Proc. of ICAC 2007.

• Thursday, Oct 25 Akshat and Tony
  AkshatSelf-* Storage: Brick-based storage with automated administration, G. Ganger, J. Strunk, and A. Klosterman CMU Technical report 03-178, 2003.
  Tony: Self-stabilization, S. Dolev, MIT Press.

Flash storage for Computer Systems

Tuesday, Oct 30
• Shashi Algorithms and data structures for flash memories, E. Gal and S. Toledo, ACM Computing Surveys, June 2005

• Thursday, Nov 1 - No class.

Tuesday, Nov 6: Upendra and Divya
• Upendra A Space-Efficient Flash Translation Layer for CompactFlash Systems, J. Kim, J. M. Kim, S. H. Noh, S. L. Min, and Y. Cho, IEEE Trans. on Consumer Electronics, 48(2):366-375, 2002.
• Divya The Rio File Cache: Surviving Operating System Crashes P. Chen, W. Ng, S. Chandra, C. Aycock, G. Rajamani, D. Lowell, Proc. of ASPLOS 1996.

Extreme Scale

• Thursday, Nov 8: Shashi
  Dynamo: Amazon's Highly Available Key-Value Store Guiseppe DeCandia. et. al., Proc. of SOSP 2007.

  Tuesday, Nov 13 Shashi

  Bigtable: A Distributed Storage System for Structured Data Fay Chang, Jeffrey Dean, Sanjay Ghemawat, Wilson C. Hsieh, Deborah A. Wallach, Mike Burrows, Tushar Chandra, Andrew Fikes, and Robert E. Gruber, Proc. of OSDI 2006.

• Thursday, Nov 15: Mid-term Project presentations
• Tuesday, Nov 20: Akshat and Rahul - Self stablization
  Self-stablizing systems in spite of distributed control, E W. Dijkstra, CACM 11:643-644, 1974
  A Pursuer-Evader Game for Sensor Networks M. Demirbas, A Arora, M. Gouda
  Distributed Reset, A Arora and M. Gouda, 1990.

  Thu, Nov 22: Thanksgiving recess - no class.

  Tuesday , Nov 27 Gautham and Samant

  Gautham Web Search for a Planet: The Google Cluster Architecture IEEE Micro, Vol. 23, No. 2, pages 22-28, March, 2003.

  Samant MapReduce: Simplified Data Processing on Large Clusters, Jeffrey Dean and Sanjay Ghemawat, In Proceedings of OSDI 2004.

  Thursday, Non 29: Byn

  Byn The Google File System, S. Ghemawat, H. Gobioff, and S.-T. Leung ACM SOSP 2003.

Misc topics

• Tuesday, Dec 4: Nilanjan : Sensor network
  The Design and Implementagtion of a Declarative Sensor Network System

Thursday, Dec 6: Divya : Preventing Buffer overflows
A Practical Dynamic Buffer Overflow DetectorO. Ruwase and M. Lam
A Comparison of Publicly Available tools for Dynamic Buffer Overflow Prevention.J. wilander and M. Kamkar

Final project presentations

• Tuesday: Dec 11
• Thursday: Dec 13