Syllabus and Schedule

This table will be updated to include the latest lecture materials as they become available.

Part 1: Introduction
Date	Speaker	Topic	Notes
9/2 (Wed)	Belay	Introduction and Logistics Read: Attack of the Killer Microseconds	[slides]
9/7 (Mon)	Holiday: Labor Day
9/9 (Wed)	Zain and Inho	Research Platforms Read: The Design and Operation of CloudLab DPDK, SPDK, Shenango	[slides]
9/14 (Mon)	Belay	Read: TritonSort: A Balanced Large-Scale Sorting System	[slides]
9/16 (Wed)	Belay	Read: Profiling a Warehouse-scale Computer Lab 1 Assigned	[slides]
9/16 (Wed)	Sign Up for Paper Presentations --- 11:59PM
Part 2: Host Networking
Date	Speaker	Topic	Notes
9/21 (Mon)	Rinik	Read: netmap: a novel framework for fast packet I/O Project suggestions available	[slides]
9/23 (Wed)	Inho	Read: Snap: a Microkernel Approach to Host Networking	[slides]
9/25 (Fri)	Assignment Due: Lab 1 --- 11:59PM
9/28 (Mon)	Ravi	Read: Azure Accelerated Networking: SmartNICs in the Public Cloud	[slides]
9/29 (Tue)	Assignment Due: Project Proposal --- 11:59PM
9/30 (Wed)	Marios [Guest Lecture]	Read: R2P2: Making RPCs first-class datacenter citizens	[slides]
10/5 (Mon)	Jay	Read: LegoOS: A Disseminated, Distributed OS for Hardware Resource Disaggregation	[slides]
Part 3: Compute
Date	Speaker	Topic	Notes
10/7 (Wed)	Isaac	Read: Firecracker: Lightweight Virtualization for Serverless Applications	[slides]
10/13 (Tue)	Jay	Read: Rethinking the Library OS from the Top Down	[slides]
10/14 (Wed)	Taylor	Read: ZygOS: Achieving Low Tail Latency for Microsecond-scale Networked Tasks	[slides]
10/19 (Mon)	Matthew	Read: Few-to-Many: Incremental Parallelism for Reducing Tail Latency in Interactive Services	[slides]
Part 4: Memory, Cache, and Flash
Date	Speaker	Topic	Notes
10/21 (Wed)	Isaac	Read: Learning-based Memory Allocation for C++ Server Workloads	[slides]
10/26 (Mon)	Matthew	Read: Flashield: a Hybrid Key-value Cache that Controls Flash Write Amplification	[slides]
10/28 (Wed)	Taylor	Read: Strata: A Cross Media File System	[slides]
Part 5: Applications
Date	Speaker	Topic	Notes
11/2 (Mon)	Rinik	Read: Sparrow: Distributed, Low Latency Scheduling	[slides]
11/4 (Wed)	Hacking Day --- Work on Projects
11/6 (Fri)	Assignment Due: Project Design Writeup --- 11:59PM
11/9 (Mon)	Meredith	Read: Occupy the Cloud: Distributed Computing for the 99% Read: Encoding, Fast and Slow: Low-Latency Video Processing Using Thousands of Tiny Threads	[slides]
11/11 (Wed)	Holiday: Veterans Day
11/16 (Mon)	Ravi	Read: Applied Machine Learning at Facebook: A Datacenter Infrastructure Perspective	[slides]
Part 6: Accelerators
Date	Speaker	Topic	Notes
11/18 (Wed)	Josh	Read: In-Datacenter Performance Analysis of a Tensor Processing Unit	[slides]
11/23 (Mon)	Holiday: Thanksgiving
11/25 (Wed)	Holiday: Thanksgiving
11/30 (Mon)	Meredith	Read: Do OS abstractions make sense on FPGAs?
12/2 (Wed)	Belay and Zain	Read: Beyond Data and Model Parallelism for Deep Neural Networks Read: PipeSwitch: Fast Pipelined Context Switching for Deep Learning Applications
12/7 (Mon)		Project Demos/Presentations
12/9 (Wed)		Project Demos/Presentations
12/9 (Wed)	Assignment Due: Project Design + Eval Writeup --- 11:59PM Last Day of Class