CS 854 Advanced Topics in Computer Systems: Emerging Technologies and their Influence on Systems

Possible Readings

If you have suggestions for papers you would like to read, please let me know. I have been collecting a bunch of papers we might want to read. Feel free to browse these papers and suggest some of them for the class to read and discuss. Note that the classifications are very rough and not well thought out.

Some Possible Readings

There may be two different types of summaries for different types of papers. Research papers will require research paper summaries. Other papers (e.g., survey papers) will require a survey paper summary. The format of these can be found by following the links below.

Paper Summaries

Information and examples

Background / Helpful Readings

Some tips on reading papers (all very short). Required reading!! READ THESE FIRST.

Paper Reading Check List,
Sugih Jamin, jamin@eecs.umich.edu.
How to Read a Research Paper,
by Spencer Rugaber
Efficient Reading of Papers in Science and Technology
Prepared by Michael J. Hanson, Updated by Dylan J. McNamee, January 6, 2000.
How to Read a Paper
S. Keshav, ACM SIGCOMM Computer Communication Review, Volume 37, Number 3, July 2007.

Readings / Course Schedule

Week 0: Introduction (Read the Background Papers above)
Monday Sept 8, 2014
Week 1: Phase-Change Memory
Monday Sept 15, 2014
Research Paper Summaries are required for both papers and are due before 10:30 am Monday Sept 15.
See the information via the link above (Paper Summaries -- Information and Examples) and follow instructions there.
These papers may (or may not) be a bit heavy on hardware/architecture. Try to get what you can from them and I will do the same.
Come to class prepared to discuss these papers and the impact this technology may have on future systems.
Names for the files to submit this week are yourgivenname-1-1.pdf, and yourgivename-1-2.pdf. the same.
1. Evaluating Phase Change Memory for Enterprise Storage Systems: A Study of Caching and Tiering Approaches,
  Hyojun Kim, Sangeetha Seshadri, Clement L. Dickey, Lawrence Chiu,
  FAST 2014.
2. DC Express: Shortest Latency Protocol for Reading Phase Change Memory over PCI Express,
  Dejan Vučinić, Qingbo Wang, Cyril Guyot, Robert Mateescu, Filip Blagojević,Luiz Franca-Neto, Damien Le Moal, Trevor Bunker, Jian Xu, Steven Swanson and Zvonimir Bandić,
  FAST 2014.
Week 2: Video over the Internet
Monday Sept 22, 2014
A survey paper summary is required for paper #1 and a research paper summary is required for paper #3. Be sure to read paper #2 and come prepared to discuss it but a summary is not required. Summaries are due before 10:30 am Monday Sept 22. Names for the files to submit this week are yourgivenname-2-1.pdf, and yourgivenname-2-3.pdf.
1. Watching Video over the Web Part 1: Streaming Protocols,
  Ali C. Begen, Tankut Akgul, and Mark Baugher
  IEEE Internet Computing, 2011.
2. Watching Video over the Web Part 2: Applications, Standardization, and Open Issues,
  Ali C. Begen, Tankut Akgul, and Mark Baugher
  IEEE Internet Computing, 2011.
3. Methodologies for Generating HTTP Streaming Video Workloads to Evaluate Web Server Performance,
  Jim Summers, Tim Brecht, Derek Eager, Bernard Wong
  SYSTOR 2012.
Week 3: Internet of Things
Monday Sept 29, 2014
A survey paper summary is required for paper #1 (PLEASE NOTE THAT THERE IS A NEW TEMPLATE, (CLICK HERE FOR NEW TEMPLATE).
Research paper summaries are required for paper #2 and #3.
Names for the files to submit this week are yourgivenname-3-1.pdf, yourgivenname-3-2.pdf, and yourgivenname-3-3.pdf.
1. The Internet of Things: A Survey
  Luigi Atzori, Antonio Iera, Giacomo Morabito,
  Computer Networks, Vol 54, 2010.
2. An Operating System for the Home,
  Colin Dixon, Ratul Mahajan, Sharad Agarwal, A.J. Brush, Bongshin Lee, Stefan Saroiu, Paramvir Bahl,
  NSDI, 2012
3. HomeLab: Shared Infrastructure for Home Technology Field Studies,
  A.J. Bernheim Brush, Jaeyeon Jung, Ratul Mahajan and James Scott
  UbiComp, 2012.
Week 4: Software Defined Networking
Monday Oct 6, 2014
A survey paper summary is required for paper #1 (PLEASE NOTE THAT THERE IS A NEW TEMPLATE, (CLICK HERE FOR NEW TEMPLATE).
Research paper summaries are required for paper #2 and #3.
Names for the files to submit this week are yourgivenname-4-1.pdf, yourgivenname-4-2.pdf, and yourgivenname-4-3.pdf.
1. The Road to SDN: An intellectual history of programmable networks,
  Nick Feamster, Jennifer Rexford, Ellen Zegura,
  ACM QUEUE, 2013
2. OpenFlow: Enabling Innovation in Campus Networks,
  Nick McKeown, Tom Anderson, Hari Balakrishnan, Guru Parulkar, Larry Peterson, Jennifer Rexford, Scott Shenker, Jonathan Turner,
  ACM SIGCOMM Computer Communications Review, April 2008.
3. B4: Experience with a Globally-Deployed Software Defined WAN,
  Sushant Jain, Alok Kumar, Subhasree Mandal, Joon Ong, Leon Poutievski, Arjun Singh, Subbaiah Venkata, Jim Wanderer, Junlan Zhou, Min Zhu, Jonathan Zolla, Urs Hölzle, Stephen Stuart and Amin Vahdat,
  SIGCOMM 2013.
Week 5: No Class -- Thanksgiving
Monday Oct 13, 2014
Week 6: Project Proposal Presentations
Monday Oct 20, 2014
Week 7: Cloud Computing
Monday Oct 27, 2014
A survey paper summary is required for paper #1 and a research paper summary is required for paper #2.
Names for the files to submit this week are yourgivenname-7-1.pdf and yourgivenname-7-2.pdf.
1. A View of Cloud Computing,
  Michael Armbrust, Armando Fox, Rean Griffith, Anthony D. Joseph, Randy Katz, Andy Konwinski, Gunho Lee, David Patterson, Ariel Rabkin, Ion Stoica, and Matei Zaharia,
  CACM, 2010
2. Shielding applications from an untrusted cloud with Haven,
  Andrew Baumann Marcus Peinado Galen Hunt
  OSDI 2014.
Week 8: Shingled Disks
Monday Nov 3, 2014
A survey paper summary is required for paper #1. Research paper summaries are required for papers #2 and #3.
Names for the files to submit this week are yourgivenname-8-1.pdf, yourgivenname-8-2.pdf and yourgivenname-8-3.pdf.
1. Principles of Operation for Shingled Disk Devices
  Garth Gibson, Greg Ganger,
  Technical Report CMU-PDL-11-107, April 2011
2. Design Issues for a Shingled Write Disk System
  Ahmed Amer, Darrell D.E. Long, Ethan L. Miller, Jehan-Francois Paris, and Thomas Schwarz, S.J.
  IEEE Mass Storage Technologies, 2010.
3. Novel Address Mappings for Shingled Write Disks
  Weiping He and David H.C. Du,
  HotStorage, 2014.
Week 9: RDMA, key-value stores
Monday Nov 10, 2014
Research paper summaries are required for all three papers.
Names for the files to submit this week are yourgivenname-9-1.pdf, yourgivenname-9-2.pdf and yourgivenname-9-3.pdf.
1. Using One-Sided RDMA Reads to Build a Fast, CPU-Efficient Key-Value Store,
  Christopher Mitchell Yifeng Geng Jinyang Li
  USENIX ATC 2013.
2. FaRM: Fast Remote Memory
  Aleksandar Dragojevic, Dushyanth Narayanan, Orion Hodson, Miguel Castro,
  NSDI 2014.
3. Using RDMA Efficiently for Key-Value Services,
  Anuj Kalia, Michael Kaminsky and David G. Andersen,
  SIGCOMM, 2014.
Week 10: Heterogeneous Multcore
Monday Nov 17, 2014
A survey paper summary is required for paper #1 and a research paper summary is required for paper #2.
Names for the files to submit this week are yourgivenname-10-1.pdf and yourgivenname-10-2.pdf.
1. Heterogeneous Chip Multiprocessors,
  Rakesh Kumar, Dean M. Tullsen, Norman P. Jouppi and Parthasarathy Ranganathan,
  IEEE Computer 2005.
2. Undersubscribed Threading on Clustered Cache Architectures,
  Rakesh Kumar, Dean M. Tullsen, Wim Heirman, Trevor E. Carlson, Kenzo Van Craeynest,
  HPCA 2014.
Background Reading for ``Undersubscribed'' paper.
Dynamic Cache Clustering for Chip Multiprocessors,
Mohammad Hammoud, Sangyeun Cho, and Rami Melhem
International Conference on Supercomputing (ICS), 2009.
Week 11: Miscellaneous
Monday Nov 24, 2014
Research paper summaries are required for both papers.
Names for the files to submit this week are yourgivenname-11-1.pdf and yourgivenname-11-2.pdf.
1. Customizable and Extensible Deployment for Mobile/Cloud Applications
  Irene Zhang, Adriana Szekeres, Dana Van Aken, Isaac Ackerman, Steven D. Gribble, Arvind Krishnamurthy, and Henry M. Levy,
  OSDI 2014.
2. Strata: Scalable High-Performance Storage on Virtualized Non-volatile Memory,
  Brendan Cully, Jake Wires, Dutch Meyer, Kevin Jamieson, Keir Fraser, Tim Deegan, Daniel Stodden, Geoffrey Lefebvre, Daniel Ferstay, and Andrew Warfield
  FAST 2014.
Week 12: Projects due before class. Wrap up discussion.
Monday Dec 1, 2014
Wrap up review/homework
Use filename = yourname-12-1.pdf and Subject: 856 Summaries
Projects due BEFORE 10:30 am on Monday Dec 1, 2014.
Late projects will not be accepted!!! (Even a few minutes late).
Use file naming system and as explained in the information about the project.
You will be assigned a project identifier.
Week 13: Program Committee Meeting
Monday Dec 8, 2014

Created: Mon Aug 18 12:37:06 EDT 2014
Last Update: Sun Nov 16 15:39:31 EST 2014