CSE 710
Parallel and Distributed File Systems
Spring
2015
Instructor:
Prof. Tevfik Kosar
Office: 338J Davis Hall
Phone: 645-2323
Email: tkosar@buffalo.edu
Office hours: Tue 11:00am - 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) becomes
more and more important.
This seminar will be discussing state-of-the-art research, development,
and deployment efforts in parallel and 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 Wednesdays
10:00am-12:00pm @ 113A Davis Hall. First day of classes will be on Wednesday,
January 28th, 2014.
Reading List:
The "tentative"
reading list for this seminar is available here.
Projects:
The seminar will include a "term project" on the implementation of the core parallel and distributed file system components, which will be implemented and presented in teams. Some project ideas include:
Project-1: FuseDLS: Design and Implementation of a Fuse-based file system interface to a Cloud-hosted Directory Listing Service
Project-2: MDS: Design and Implementation of a Distributed Metadata Server for Global Name Space in a Wide-area File System
Project-3: SmartFS: Design and Implementation of a Serverless Distributed File System for Smartphones
Project-4: PowerFS: Energy-Aware File System Design
Detailed project descriptions are available here.
Project Milestones are:
Mar 2nd: System Design Document & Literature Survey due
Mar 4th - 11th: Midterm Presentations
Apr 22nd - May 6th: Final Presentations and Demos
May 11th: Final Reports due
Grading:
This is a research course. There
will be team projects and paper presentations, but no exams.
Each student will present 1-2 papers from the reading list provided above.
Additionally, 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
Piazza Page:
We will also have an online discussion of the papers at the course piazza page. The details about this will be posted here soon.
Seminar Schedule:
|
Date |
Week |
Papers to be Discussed |
Presenter |
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Jan. 28 |
1 |
Introduction: Wide
Area Distributed File Systems |
Tevfik |
|
Feb. 4 |
2 |
The Sun Network File System: Design, Implementation and
Experience (NFS) |
Kyle |
|
Aniket |
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Feb. 11 |
3 |
Narasimha |
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Sayaritra |
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Feb. 18 |
4 |
Ji |
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Gokhan |
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Feb. 25 |
5 |
GPFS: A Shared-Disk File System for Large Computing
Clusters |
Archana |
|
Panache: A Parallel File System Cache for Global File
Access |
Subhadeep |
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Mar. 4 |
6 |
Midterm Presentations |
Teams 1 – 3 |
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Mar.
11 |
7 |
Midterm Presentations |
Teams
4 - 6 |
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Mar. 18 |
SPRING BREAK |
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Mar. 25 |
8 |
Energy-Efficiency and Storage Flexibility in the Blue
File System |
Zulkar |
|
Luigi |
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Apr. 1 |
9 |
Anvay |
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Surya |
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Apr. 8 |
10 |
Hrishikesh |
|
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Flexible, Wide-Area Storage for Distributed Systems
with WheelFS |
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Apr. 15 |
11 |
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CalvinFS: A Scalable File
System Built on Top of a Distributed DBMS |
Hitpal |
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Apr. 22 |
12 |
Final Project
Presentations & Demos |
Teams
1 – 2 |
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Apr. 29 |
13 |
Final Project
Presentations & Demos |
Teams
3 - 4 |
|
May. 6 |
14 |
Final Project
Presentations & Demos |
Teams
5 - 6 |