Syllabus and Schedule

This schedule will be updated to include lecture materials as they become available.

Part 0: Introduction
Date	Speaker	Topic	Notes
09/07 (Wed)	Belay	Introduction and Logistics	picture_as_pdf
09/12 (Mon)	Belay and Zain	Datacenter Software CloudLab Overview Read: The Design and Operation of CloudLab	picture_as_pdf
09/14 (Wed)	Various	Platforms for Research Projects Lab 1 Assigned	picture_as_pdf
09/18 (Sun)	Sign up for paper presentations --- 11:59PM
09/19 (Mon)	Various	Platforms for Research Projects	picture_as_pdf
09/21 (Wed)	Belay	Tail Latency Read: The Tail at Scale Optional Read: Attack of the killer microseconds Lab 2 Assigned
09/22 (Thur)	Assignment Due: Lab 1 --- 11:59PM
09/26 (Mon)	Belay	Read: Cores that don’t count	picture_as_pdf
Part 1: Isolation
Date	Speaker	Topic	Notes
09/28 (Wed)	Belay	Isolation Lecture Read: Blending Containers and Virtual Machines: A Study of Firecracker and gVisor Lab 3 Assigned	picture_as_pdf
09/29 (Thur)	Assignment Due: Lab 2 --- 11:59PM
10/3 (Mon)	TBD	Read: Firecracker: Lightweight Virtualization for Serverless Applications	picture_as_pdf
10/5 (Wed)	Hacking Day: No class meeting; Work on Lab 3 and Project Proposal
10/6 (Thur)	Assignment Due: Lab 3 --- 11:59PM
10/7 (Fri)	Add Date
10/10 (Mon)	Holiday: Indigenous Peoples' Day
10/11 (Tue)	Assignment Due: Project Proposal --- 11:59PM
10/12 (Wed)	Raza	Guest Speaker Read: Integrating Unikernel Optimizations in a General Purpose OS
10/17 (Mon)	TBD	Read: FAASM: Lightweight Isolation for Efficient Stateful Serverless Computing
Part 2: Host I/O
Date	Speaker	Topic	Notes
10/19 (Wed)	Belay	Host I/O Lecture Read: TCP Onloading for Datacenter Servers
10/24 (Mon)	TBD	Read: 1RMA: Re-envisioning Remote Memory Access for Multi-tenant Datacenters
10/26 (Wed)	TBD	Read: PicNIC: Predictable Virtualized NIC
10/31 (Mon)	TBD	Read: Flat Datacenter Storage
11/2 (Wed)	Hacking Day: No class meeting; Work on Draft Project Report
11/4 (Fri)	Assignment Due: Draft Project Report --- 11:59PM
11/7 (Mon)	TBD	Guest Lecture
11/9 (Wed)	TBD	Read: How to diagnose nanosecond network latencies in rich end-host stacks
Part 3: Memory
Date	Speaker	Topic	Notes
11/14 (Mon)	TBD	Read: Log-structured Memory for DRAM-based Storage
11/16 (Wed)	TBD	Read: TMO: Transparent Memory Offloading in Datacenters
11/21 (Mon)	TBD	Read: MemLiner: Lining up Tracing and Application for a Far-Memory-Friendly Runtime
Part 4: Applications
Date	Speaker	Topic	Notes
11/23 (Wed)	Hacking Day: No class meeting; Work on Final Project Report and Presentation
11/23 (Wed)	Drop Date
11/28 (Mon)	TBD	Read: P3: Distributed Deep Graph Learning at Scale
11/30 (Wed)	Ramseyer	Guest Speaker Read: SPEEDEX: A Scalable, Parallelizable, and Economically Efficient Distributed EXchange
12/5 (Mon)	TBD	Read: Serverless in the Wild: Characterizing and Optimizing the Serverless Workload at a Large Cloud Provider
12/7 (Wed)	TBD	Read: R2E2: Low-Latency Path Tracing of Terabyte-Scale Scenes using Thousands of Cloud CPUs
Part 5: Conclusion
Date	Speaker	Topic	Notes
12/12 (Mon)	Various	Project presentations
12/14 (Wed)	Various	Project presentations Last day of classes
12/14 (Wed)	Assignment Due: Final Project Report --- 11:59PM