CSE 710
Parallel and Distributed File Systems
Spring
2016
Instructor:
Prof. Tevfik Kosar
Office: 338J Davis Hall
Phone: 645-2323
Email: tkosar@buffalo.edu
Office hours: Tue 10:00am - 12:00pm
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 27th, 2016.
Reading List:
The "tentative"
reading list for this seminar is available here.
Projects:
The seminar will include a "term project" on comprehensive testing and evaluation of selected parallel and distributed file systems, which will be performned and presented in teams.
Project descriptions are available here.
Project Milestones are:
Mar 7th: System Design Document & Literature Survey due
Mar 9th: Midterm Presentations
Apr 25th - May 4th: Final Presentations and Demos
May 14th: Final Reports due
Grading:
This is a research course. There
will be team projects and paper presentations, but no exams.
Each student will present at least 1 paper 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 |
|
Jan. 27 |
1 |
Introduction: Wide
Area Distributed File Systems |
Tevfik |
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Feb. 3 |
2 |
The Sun Network File System:
Design, Implementation and Experience (NFS) |
Aniruddh |
|
Abinash |
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Feb. 10 |
3 |
Barry |
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|
Balamurugan |
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Feb. 17 |
4 |
Miraj |
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|
Abinash |
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Feb. 24 |
5 |
GPFS: A Shared-Disk File
System for Large Computing Clusters |
Srikanth |
|
Panache: A Parallel File
System Cache for Global File Access |
Krishna |
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Mar. 2 |
6 |
Energy-Efficiency and
Storage Flexibility in the Blue File System |
Mingxuan |
|
Janani |
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Mar.
9 |
7 |
Mid-semester Project
Presentations |
Teams
1 - 5 |
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Mar. 16 |
SPRING BREAK |
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Mar. 23 |
8 |
OceanStore: An Architecture for Global-Scale Persistent
Storage |
Yuan |
|
Li |
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|
Mingxuan |
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Mar. 30 |
9 |
Barry |
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|
Srikanth |
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Apr. 6 |
10 |
Krishna |
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Flexible, Wide-Area Storage
for Distributed Systems with WheelFS |
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Apr. 13 |
11 |
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Apr. 20 |
12 |
ViewBox: Integrating Local File Systems with Cloud Storage
Services, |
Aniruddh |
|
Yuan |
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CalvinFS: A Scalable File System Built on Top of a Distributed
DBMS |
Miraj |
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Apr. 25 |
13 |
Final Project
Presentations & Demos (in room Davis 310) |
Teams
1 - 2 |
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May. 4 |
14 |
Final Project
Presentations & Demos (in room Davis 113A) |
Teams
3 - 5 |