Course Schedule¶
The course schedule would be adjusted according to the course progress and students’ interests. Please send email to course instructor/TA if you are particularly interested in a specific topic. In each lecture, we will discuss one or two papers and the other papers will be optional reading.
| Monday | Tuesday | Wednesday | Thursday | Friday |
| Aug 26 |
Aug 27 Lec-1: Introduction: Memory & Storage Systems Assignment-0: student information sheet |
Aug 28 |
Aug 29 Lec-2: Big Memory Management Reading: DirectSegment (ISCA'13) Optional: Igens (OSDI'16), RMM (ISCA'16), SpaceJMP (ASPLOS'16) |
Aug 30 |
| Sep 2 Labor Day |
Sep 3 Lec-3: Virtual Memory and Address Translation Reading: MIX TLB (ASPLOS'17) Optional: SpecTLB (ISCA'11), Mallacc (ASPLOS'17) Assignment-1: Test your machine's memory hierarchy |
Sep 4 | Sep 5 Lec-4: Non-Volatile Memory Reading: PMFS (EuroSys'14, Best Paper) Optional: PCM (ISCA'09), BPFS (SOSP'09), NOVA (FAST'16) Mnemosyne (ASPLOS'11), NV-Heaps (ASPLOS'11), Aerie (EuroSys'14) |
Sep 6 |
| Sep 9 | Sep 10 Lec-5: Memory Persistency Reading: Memory Persistency (ISCA'14) Optional: Kiln (MICRO'13), Persistent Transactions (ASPLOS'15), Proteus (MICRO'17) |
Sep 11 | Sep 12 Lec-6: Distributed NVM Reading: Mojim (ASPLOS'15) Optional: Kamino-Tx (EuroSys'17), NV-Tree (FAST'15), |
Sep 13 Assignment-1 Due (Deadline: 11:59pm Sep 15) |
| Sep 16 | Sep 17 Lec-7: Programming Model for NVM Reading: Espresso (ASPLOS'18), AutoPersist (PLDI'19) Optional: Write-Rationing GC (PLDI'18), Assignment-2 Released |
Sep 18 | Sep 19 Lec-8: Flash Memory Reading: FlashMap (ISCA'15), FlatFlash (ASPLOS'19) Optional: DFTL (ASPLOS'09), MARS (SOSP'13), Transactional Flash (OSDI'08), F2FS (FAST'15) |
Sep 20 |
| Sep 23 | Sep 24 Lec-9: Software Defined Flash Reading: FlashBlox (FAST'17), App-Managed Flash (FAST'16) Optional: SDF (ASPLOS'14), LightNVM (FAST'17) |
Sep 25 | Sep 26 Lec-10: Predictable Storage Performance Reading: MittOS (SOSP'17) Optional: Split-Level I/O Scheduling (SOSP'15), Differentiated Storage (SOSP'11) |
Sep 27 Assignment-2 Due (Deadline: 11:59pm Sep 29) |
| Sep 30 | Oct 1 Lec-11: Near-Storage Computing I Reading: Willow (OSDI'14), Biscuit (ISCA'16), Optional: Summarizer (MICRO'17) |
Oct 2 | Oct 3 Lec-12: Near-Storage Computing II Reading: BlueDBM (ISCA'15), TOM (ISCA'16) Optional: Morpheus (ISCA'16) |
Oct 4 |
| Oct 7 | Oct 8 Lec-13: Heterogeneous Memory Systems Reading: Strata (SOSP'17) Optional: Data Tiering (EuroSys'16), NVDIMM (MICRO'16), Stacked DRAM (MICRO'14) |
Oct 9 | Oct 10 Lec-14: Reliable Storage Systems Reading: Container-based FS (OSDI'14) Optional: Push-Button Verification (OSDI'16, Best Paper), FS Model Checking (OSDI'04, Best Paper), Differential RAID (EuroSys'10) |
Oct 11 Summary of related work (Due: 11:59pm Friday, Oct 11) |
| Oct 14 | Oct 15 Lec-15: Secure Memory System Reading: InvisiSpec (MICRO'18) Optional: Memory Errors (ASPLOS'15), DEUCE (ASPLOS'15) |
Oct 16 | Oct 17 Lec-16: Secure Storage System Reading: FlashGuard (CCS'17), TimeSSD (EuroSys'19) Optional: Storage Security Evaluation (FAST'02) |
Oct 18 Project Proposal (Due: 11:59pm Oct 20) |
| Oct 21 | Oct 22 Lec-17: In-Memory Storage Systems Reading: RAMCloud (SOSP'13) Optional: FaRM (NSDI'14), Log-structured Memory (FAST'14) |
Oct 23 | Oct 24 Lec-18: Project Proposal Presentation |
Oct 25 |
| Oct 28 | Oct 29 Lec-19: High-Performance In-Memory Applications Reading: In-Memory Transaction Processing (SOSP'15) Optional: In-Memory Databases (SOSP'13), Phase Reconciliation (OSDI'14) |
Oct 30 | Oct 31 Lec-20: Rack-Scale Storage I Reading: Disaggregated Memory (ISCA'09), Optional: ReFlex (ASPLOS'17) Flash Storage Disaggregation (EuroSys'16), QuickSAN (ISCA'13) |
Nov 1 |
| Nov 4 | Nov 5 Lec-21: Rack-Scale Storage II Reading: InfiniSwap (NSDI'17) Optinonal: Network Requirement for Resource Disaggregation (OSDI'16) |
Nov 6 | Nov 7 Lec-22: Distributed Storage Reading: Skyway (ASPLOS'18), Optional: IOFlow (SOSP'13), Virtual IOPS (EuroSys'14), Consistency-Based SLA (SOSP'13) |
Nov 8 |
| Nov 11 | Nov 12 Lec-23: Memory Management in Systems Virtualization Reading: VMware ESX (OSDI'02), Hardware-Assisted Page Walks (ISCA'12) Optional: VSwapper (ASPLOS'14), 2D Page Walks (ASPLOS'08) |
Nov 13 | Nov 14 Lec-24: Storage for Hardware Accelerators Reading: GPUfs (ASPLOS'13) Optional: Cohesion (ISCA'10), ActivePointers (ISCA'16) |
Nov 15 |
| Nov 18 | Nov 19 Lec-25: Memory for Hardware Accelerators Reading: Address Translation for GPU (ASPLOS'14) Optional: |
Nov 20 | Nov 21 Lec-26: Mobile/Wearable/IoT Storage Reading: WearDrive (USENIX ATC'15, Best Paper), SummaryStore (SOSP'17) Optional: Revisiting Mobile Storage (FAST'12), BtrDB (FAST'16) |
Nov 22 |
| Nov 25 | Nov 26 No Class (Fall Break) |
Nov 27 | Nov 28 No Class (Fall Break) |
Nov 29 |
| Dec 2 | Dec 3 Lec-27: When Memory/Storage Meet Networking Reading: IncBricks (ASPLOS'17), NetCache (SOSP'17) Optional: sRoute (FAST'16), Page Fault for Network Controller (ASPLOS'17) |
Dec 4 | Dec 5 Lec-28: Large-Scale Distributed Storage Systems Reading: Spanner (OSDI'12), Optional: SVE (SOSP'17), F4 (OSDI'14), Azure Storage (SOSP'13) |
Dec 6 |
| Dec 9 | Dec 10 Lec-29:Course Summary, In-class Discussion |
Dec 11 | Dec 12 No Class |
Dec 13 |
| Dec 16 | Dec 17 | Dec 18 | Dec 19 Lec-30: Final Project Presentation (tentative) |
Dec 20 |