Graduate Seminar
Advanced Topics in Storage Systems
Spring 2013
http://www.eng.tau.ac.il/semcom
Schedule: Wednesdays, 4-6pm
Location: Wolfson 130
Instructor: Dr.
Dalit Naor, IBM (dalit@eng.tau.ac.il)
https://www.research.ibm.com/haifa/dept/stt/sspm.html
The seminar will focus on trends and state-of-art
developments in storage systems and cloud storage that address the explosion of digital information, which is a key characteristic
of our decade. The seminar lectures will include introductory material,
fundamental topics and systems aspects. Some of the lectures will be given guests from the IBM Storage Research Group.
Students projects: Every student will
choose a topic/paper(s) from the suggested list of topics and will summarize it
in a power-point style presentation; some of these topics will be selected to
be presented in class. Grades will be
given based on the presentation.
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Course Syllabus (subject to change):
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Date |
Topic |
Instructor |
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1 |
27.2.2013 |
Introduction I: Storage Systems |
Dalit Naor |
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2 |
06.3.2013 |
Introduction II: Cloud and Cloud Storage |
Dalit Naor |
|
3 |
13.3.2013 |
Scalable and Robust Distributed
Systems for the Cloud: eventual
consistency, DHT, Amazon Dynamo |
Eran Rom |
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Pessach vacation |
|
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Pessach vacation |
|
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4 |
03.4.2013 |
Reliability and fault tolerance |
Dima Sotnikov |
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5 |
10. 4.2013 |
Data Compression |
Danny Harnik |
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6 |
17. 4.2013 |
Data Deduplication |
Danny Harnik |
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7 |
24. 4.2013 |
Cloud Protocols and RESTful web
services |
Gil Vernik |
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8 |
01. 5.2013 |
BigData Map reduce |
Paula Ta-Shma |
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9 |
08. 5.2013 |
Searchable Indexed NoSQL(Cassandra) |
Kalman Meth |
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Shavuot vacation |
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10 |
22. 5.2013 |
Access control for storage and cloud |
Alexandra Shulman-Peleg |
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11 |
29. 5.2013 |
Student's presentations |
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12 |
05.6.2013 |
Student's presentations |
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13 |
12.6.2013 |
Student's presentations |
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14 |
19.6.2013 |
Conclusions, Wrap up |
Dalit Naor |
Students Projects
Guidelines:
- Spend
some quality time browsing thru the topics and the papers before
submitting your choices
- Once the
topic is assigned, read the paper(s) carefully, including the details.
When required, look at the referenced citations for background.
- State
the main contribution of the paper
- State
the assumptions, experiments or proofs
- Critique
the main contribution: Do the conclusions follow the experiments? How
realistic are the assumptions? Are there limitations?
- Comment
on the paper(s)
- Propose
possible extensions
Timeline:
- 07.03.2013
Each student will indicate by email his/her1st and 2nd
choice for a topic - Completed
- 14.03.2013
Topic selection completed; an email indicating the assignment of topics
to students will be distributed List
of assigned topics
- 04.04.2013
Submit a 2-pages summary of the project
- 01.05.2013
Power-point style presentation due; Some presentations will be
selected for presentation presented in class; comments given
- 29.5
-19.6 Presentations given in class
- 19.06.2013
Final presentation is due