CS262B Advanced Topics in Computer Systems
Spring 2009

David E. Culler

 
Schedule: Jan 20 -- May 11, TuTh 10-1130A, 405 SODA (CCN 26806)
Prerequisites: 262A (or permission)
Text: None
Handouts: Papers will be handed out or online
Grades: 30% Reading analyses and problem sets, 10% Participation, 60% Project. (possible take home - tbd).
Projects: Team of 2 will complete a focused research study of essentially conference quality on a (primarily) self-select topic of interest in computer systems.
Reading analysis: A reading analysis form for each paper to be discussed in class is due one hour before class, except those "below the line"  (4 excused w/o question)
Contact Info: Prof. Culler :  RadLab, 468 Soda Hall, (510) 643-7572
     Office hours: TBA


Reading Summaries

Tentative Schedule

Date Tuesday Date Thursday Project
1/20 Statistics

Excel spreadsheet, slides
1/22
 Great Systems debate:

1/27 MultiProcessor/Core
1/29
2/3
Virtualization
2/5
2/10 Guest Lecture - Prof. Brewer
Cluster Infrastructure Services
2/12 Commercial Version
3 ideas
2/17
Google and Project Discussions
2/19


2/24
Power

2/26 IPv6
3/3
Time
3/5

Infrastructure
3/10 Wide Area Storage 3/12
3/17

Timothy Roscoe Guest Lecture
3/19 Transactional Storage Proposal Accepted
Spring Recess 3/23-27
3/31 Replication
4/2 PRACTI Replication
4/7 4/9
4/14 Programming the Cloud 4/15
Performance
Preliminary Results
4/21
Web applications
4/23
4/28
Robust Systems Code

4/30 Shawdow PC
5/5
Classical Distributed Systems
5/7

Deferred Readings




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Conference Links


culler@cs.berkeley.edu