| Week | Date | Topic | Presenter | Reviews | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 13 Sep | Organizational Meeting | Ken Salem | ||
| 2 | 20 Sep | Introduction and Background | Ken Salem | ||
| 3 | 27 Sep | Yuri Breitbart and Henry F. Korth. Replication and consistency: being lazy helps sometimes. | Ken Salem | #1, #2 | |
| Bettina Kemme and Gustavo Alonso. Don't Be Lazy, Be Consistent: Postgres-R, A New Way to Implement Database Replication. | Nickolay Tchervenski | PPT | #1, | ||
| Christian Plattner and Gustavo Alonso. Ganymed: Scalable replication for transactional web applications. | Ahmed Ataullah | PPT | #1, #2 | ||
| 4 | 4 Oct | Cristiana Amza, Alan L. Cox, and Willy Zwaenepoel. A comparative evaluation of transparent scaling techniques for dynamic content servers. | Chen Zhang | PPT | #1 |
| Mehmet Altinel, Christof Bornhovd, Sailesh Krishnamurthy, C. Mohan, Hamid Pirahesh and Berthold Reinwald. Cache Tables: Paving the Way for an Adaptive Database Cache. | Umar Farooq Minhas | PPT | #1 | ||
| Hongfei Guo, Per-Åke Larson, Raghu Ramakrishnan and Jonathan Goldstein. Relaxed Currency and Consistency: How to Say "Good Enough" in SQL | Mike Nie | PPT | #1, #2, | ||
| 5 | 11 Oct | Christopher Olston, Amit Manjhi, Charles Garrod, Anastassia Ailamaki, Bruce M. Maggs, and Todd C. Mowry A scalability service for dynamic web applications. | Raihan Al-Ekram | PPT | #1, #2, |
| More Background | Ken Salem | ||||
| 6 | 18 Oct | no class | |||
| 7 | 25 Oct | Paul Barham, Boris Dragovic, Keir Fraser, Steven Hand, Tim Harris, Alex Ho, Rolf Neugebauer, Ian Pratt and Andrew Warfield. Xen and the art of virtualization. | Tyrel Russell | PPT | #1, #2 |
| Qiao Lin, Balakrishna R Iyer, Divyakant Agrawal, and Amr El Abbadi. SVL: Storage virtualization engine leveraging DBMS technology. | Ken Salem | #1, #2, #3 | |||
| 8 | 1 Nov | Christopher Lumb, Arif Merchant, and Guillermo Alvarez. Facade: virtual storage devices with performance guarantees. | Jeff Pound | #1, #2 | |
| Magnus Karlsson, Christos T. Karamanolis, and Xiaoyun Zhu. Triage: Performance differentiation for storage systems using adaptive control. | Ken Salem | #1, #2 | |||
| Sujay Parekh, Kevin Rose, Joseph L. Hellerstein, Sam Lightstone, Matthew Huras and Victor Chang. Managing the performance impact of administrative utilities. | Nickolay Tchervenski | PPT | #1 | ||
| 9 | 8 Nov | Axel Mönkeberg and Gerhard Weikum. Conflict-driven load control for the avoidance of data-contention thrashing. | Ken Salem | #1, #2 | |
| Kurt P. Brown, Michael J. Carey, and Miron Livny. Goal-oriented buffer management revisited. | Mike Nie | PPT | #1, | ||
| Dushyanth Narayanan, Eno Thereska, and Anastassia Ailamaki. Continuous resource monitoring for self-predicting DBMS. | Umar Farooq Minhas | PPT | #1, #2 | ||
| 10 | 15 Nov | Sameh Elnikety, Erich Nahum, John Tracey, and Willy Zwaenepoel. A method for transparent admission control and request scheduling in dynamic e-commerce web sites. | Tyrel Russell | PPT | #1, #2 |
| Tarek F. Abdelzaher, Kang G. Shin, and Nina Bhatti. Performance guarantees for web server end-systems: A control-theoretical approach. | Chen Zhang | #1, #2 | |||
| Alexander Totok and Vijay Karamcheti. Improving Performance of Internet Services Through Reward-Driven Request Prioritization. | Ken Salem | #1 | |||
| 11 | 22 Nov | Bhuvan Urgaonkar, Prashant J. Shenoy, Abhishek Chandra, and Pawan Goyal. Dynamic provisioning of multi-tier internet applications. | Jeff Pound | #1 | |
| A. Karve, T. Kimbrel, G. Pacifici, M. Spreitzer, M Steinder, M Sviridenko and A. Tantawi. Dynamic Placement for Clustered Web Applications. | Chen Zhang | #1, #2 | |||
| Gokul Soundararajan, Cristiana Amza, and Ashvin Goel. Database replication policies for dynamic content applications. | Ahmed Ataullah | PPT | #1, #2, #3 | ||
| 12 | 29 Nov | project presentations | Nickolay Tchervenski | PPT | |
| Chen Zhang | |||||
| Mike Nie | PPT | ||||
| Umar Farooq Minhas | PPT | ||||
| Jeff Pound | |||||
| Ahmed Ataullah | PPT | ||||
| Tyrel Russell | |||||