CSE 710
Wide Area Distributed File Systems
Spring
2012
Instructor:
Prof. Tevfik Kosar
Office: 245 Bell Hall
Phone: 645-2323
Email: tkosar@buffalo.edu
Office hour: Fri 11:30am-1:00pm
As
the data requirements of commercial as well as scientific applications continue
to increase, the ability to share large amounts of data across widely
distributed sites (i.e. data centers, clouds, clusters, supercomputers) become
more and more important.
This seminar will be discussing state-of-the-art research, development,
and deployment efforts in wide-area distributed file systems on clustered,
grid, and cloud infrastructures. We will be reading and discussing two papers
every week in one of the following areas:
·
File System Design
Decisions
·
Performance,
Scalability, and Consistency issues in File Systems
·
Traditional
Distributed File Systems
·
Parallel Cluster File
Systems
·
Wide Area Distributed
File Systems
·
Cloud File Systems
·
Commercial vs Open
Source File System Solutions
Course
Location and Time:
The seminars will be held Mondays
12:00pm-2:00pm @ 113A Davis Hall. First day of classes will be on Monday,
January 23, 2012.
Reading List:
The
reading list for this seminar is available here.
Grading:
This is a research course. There
will be no exams and no projects (unless there is a request from individual
students for a term project). Each student will present 1 paper and will write
reviews for 2 others. Each student is expected to read all papers, submit questions and comments about the papers, attend
classes, and join the discussion of the papers. Grading will be P/F.
Useful Links:
·
How to Read a Paper, by S. Keshav.
·
Reviewing
a Technical Paper, by M. Ernst
Paper Review Format Guidelines:
·
1 paragraph executive summary (what are the authors
trying to achieve? potential contributions of the paper?)
·
2-3 paragraphs of details (key ideas? motivation
& justification? strengths and weaknesses? technical flaws? supported with
results? comparison with other systems? future work? anything you disagree with
authors?)
·
1-2 paragraphs summarizing the discussions in the
class.
Course Blog:
All paper reviews will be posted on the course blog at http://cse710.blogspot.com/. Please make sure you visit this blog regularly. Also,
do not forget to post your questions and comments on papers to be discussed every Friday by Midnight.
Seminar Schedule:
|
Date |
Week |
Papers to be Discussed |
Presenter |
Reviewers |
|
Jan. 23 |
1 |
Kosar |
|
|
|
Jan. 30 |
2 |
[1] The Sun Network File System: Design, Implementation and
Experience (NFS) |
Prabhat |
Nandavanam, Agrawal |
|
[2]
Scale and Performance in a Distributed File System
(AFS) |
Kapoor |
Harinathagupta, Murali |
||
|
Feb. 6 |
3 |
Bachhav |
Grama Prasad, Talbar |
|
|
Chakka |
Syed, Ochani |
|||
|
Feb. 13 |
4 |
Inamdar |
Zhang, Rudraraju |
|
|
Grama
Ramaprasad |
Dabhere, Sreevathsa |
|||
|
Feb. 20 |
5 |
[7]
GPFS: A Shared-Disk File System for Large Computing
Clusters |
Srinath |
Ross, Sural |
|
[8]
Scalable Performance of the Panasas
Parallel File System |
Arslan |
Murali, Kapoor |
||
|
Feb. 27 |
6 |
[9]
Nache: Design and Implementation of a Caching Proxy for
NFSv4 |
Yildiz |
Agrawal, Chakka |
|
[10]
Panache: A Parallel File System Cache for Global File
Access |
Ki |
Desai Shridhar, Holavanalli |
||
|
Mar. 5 |
7 |
[11]
OceanStore: An Architecture
for Global-Scale Persistent Storage |
Sankara
Narayanan |
Arslan, Inamdar |
|
Syed |
Talbar, Seth |
|||
|
Mar. 12 |
|
|
|
|
|
Mar. 19 |
8 |
Agrawal |
Ki, Srinath |
|
|
[15]
A Distributed File System for a Wide-Area High
Performance Computing Infrastructure |
Desai Shridhar Murali |
Yildiz, Sankara Narayanan Ochani, Bachhav |
||
|
Apr. 2 |
9 |
Sural |
Kapoor, Nandavanam |
|
|
Gupta |
Prabhat, Arslan |
|||
|
[18]
Ceph: A Scalable, High-Performance Distributed File System |
Ross |
Rudraraju, Ki |
||
|
Apr. 9 |
10 |
[19]
Flexible, Wide-Area Storage for Distributed Systems
with WheelFS |
Zhang |
Sreevathsa, Dabhere |
|
[20]
Bigtable: A Distributed Storage System for Structured Data |
Nandavanam |
Sural, Syed |
||
|
Talbar |
Chakka, Harinathagupta |
|||
|
Apr. 16 |
11 |
Ochani |
Holavanalli, Ross |
|
|
Rudraraju |
Inamdar, Yildiz |
|||
|
Apr. 23 |
12 |
[24]
Spyglass: Fast, Scalable Metadata Search for
Large-Scale Storage Systems |
Sreevathsa |
Seth, Desai Sridhar |
|
[25]
Megastore: Providing Scalable, Highly Available Storage
for Interactive Services |
Holavanalli |
Gupta, Zhang |
||
|
Apr. 30 |
13 |
[26]
Safety, Visibility, and Performance in a Wide-Area File
System |
Seth |
Sankara Narayanan, Prabhat |
|
[28]
Energy-Efficiency and Storage Flexibility in the Blue
File System |
Debhere Harinathagupta |
Bachhav, Grama Ramaprasad Srinath, Gupta |