Department of Computer Science 


CS 5413: High Performance Systems and Networking (Fall 2014)

Mon/Wed/Fri 1:25-2:15; 205 Thurston Hall

   
    
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0 8/27 pdf, pptx Course overview
1 8/29 pdf, pptx Overview: Internet vs Datacenter Networks Computer Networking, A Top-Down Approach, Chapter 1.

The Cost of a Cloud: Research Problems in Data Center Networks, A. Greenberg, J. Hamilton, D. A. Maltz, P. Patel. ACM SIGCOMM computer communication review, Volume 39, Issue 1 (November 2008), pages 68--73.

  9/1   No Lecture: Labor Day
2 9/3 pdf, pptx Application Layer and Socket Programming Computer Networking, A Top-Down Approach, Chapter 2, 2.7--2.8.

3 9/5 pdf, pptx Transport Layer and Data Center TCP Computer Networking, A Top-Down Approach, Chapter 3.

4 9/8 pdf, pptx Network Layer and Data Center Topologies Computer Networking, A Top-Down Approach, Chapter 4.

  9/10   No Lecture: Check Lab Schedule
5 9/12 pdf, pptx Data Link and Physical Layers and 10GbE Protocol Computer Networking, A Top-Down Approach, Chapter 5.

6 9/15 pdf, pptx Data Center Networks and Basic Switching Technologies A 50-Gb/s IP Router, C. Partridge, S. Member, P. P. Carvey , I. Castineyra, T. Clarke, J. Rokosz, J. Seeger, M. Sollins, S. Starch, B. Tober, G. D. Troxel, D. Waitzman, and S. Winterble. IEEE/ACM Transactions on Networking (ToN), Volume 6, Issue 3 (June 1998), pages 237-248. here or here.

7 9/17 pdf, pptx Data Center Network Topologies A Guided Tour Through Datacenter Networking, D. Abts and B. Felderman. Communications of the ACM (CACM), Volume 55, Issue 6 (June 2012), pages 44-51. here or here.

  9/19   No Lecture: Check Lab Schedule
8 9/22 pdf, pptx Data Center Network Topologies: FatTree A Scalable, Commodity Data Center Network Architecture, M. Al-Fares, A. Loukissas, A. Vahdat. ACM SIGCOMM Computer Communication Review (CCR), Volume 38, Issue 4 (October 2008), pages 63-74.
here and here.

  9/24   No Lecture: Check Lab Schedule
9 9/26 pdf, pptx Data Center Network Topologies: VL2 VL2: a scalable and flexible data center network, A. Greenberg, J. R. Hamilton, N. Jain, S. Kandula, C. Kim, P. Lahiri, D. A. Maltz, P. Patel, and S. Sengupta. ACM Computer Communication Review (CCR), August 2009, pages 51-62.
here and here.

10 9/29 pdf, pptx Software Routers: Click The Click Modular Router, E. Kohler, R. Morris, B. Chen, and M. F. Kaashoek. ACM Symposium on Operating Systems Principles (SOSP), December 1999, pages 217-231.
here and here.

  10/1  
50th Anniversary and Gates Building Dedication

11 10/3 pdf, pptx Software Routers: RouteBricks RouteBricks: exploiting parallelism to scale software routers, M. Dobrescu, N. Egi, K. Argyraki, B.G. Chun, and K. Fall. ACM Symposium on Operating Systems Principles (SOSP), October 2009, pages 15-28.
here and here.

  10/6   No Lecture: Check Lab Schedule
12 10/8 pdf, pptx Software Routers: NetMap NetMap: A Novel Framework for Fast Packet I/O, L. Rizzo. USENIX Annual Technical Conference (ATC), June 2012, pages 101-112.

  10/10   No Lecture: Check Lab Schedule
  10/13   No Lecture: Fall Break
13 10/15 pdf, pptx Software Routers: NetSlice NetSlices: Scalable Multi-Core Packet Processing in User-Space, T. Marian, K. S. Lee, and H. Weatherspoon. ACM/IEEE Symposium on Architectures for Networking and Communications Systems (ANCS), October 2012, pages 27-38.
here and here.

  10/17   No Lecture: Check Lab Schedule
14 10/20 pdf, pptx Alternative Data Center Switching Technologies: Optical c-through: part-time optics in datacenters, G. Wang, D. G. Andersen, M. Kaminsky, K. Papagiannaki, T. S. Eugene Ng, M. Kozuch, M. Ryan. ACM SIGCOMM Computer Communication Review (CCR), Volume 40, Issue 4 (October 2010), pages 327-338.
here and here.

Helios: A Hybrid Electrical/Optical Switch Architecture for Modular Data Centers, N. Farrington, G. Porter, S. Radhakrishnan, H. H. Bazzaz, V. Subramanya, Y. Fainman, G. Papen, A. Vahdat. ACM SIGCOMM Computer Communication Review (CCR), Volume 40, Issue 4 (October 2010), pages 339-350.
here and here.

15 10/22 pdf, pptx Alternative Data Center Switching Technologies: Wireless On the Feasibility of Completely Wireless Datacenters, J. Y. Shin, E. G. Sirer, H. Weatherspoon, and D. Kirovski, IEEE/ACM Transactions on Networking (ToN), Volume 21, Issue 5 (October 2013), pages 1666-1680.

  10/24   No Lecture: Check Lab Schedule
16 10/27 pdf, pptx Data Center Transport: Incast and DCTCP Data center TCP (DCTCP), M. Alizadeh, A. Greenberg, D. A. Maltz, J. Padhye, P. Patel, B. Prabhakar, S. Sengupta, and M. Sridharan. ACM SIGCOMM Computer Communication Review (CCR), Volume 40, Issue 4 (October 2010), pages 63-74.
here and here.

17 10/29 video Data Center Software Networking: SDN Overview OpenFlow: enabling innovation in campus networks, N. McKeown, T. Anderson, H. Balakrishnan, G. Parulkar, L. Peterson, J. Rexford, S. Shenker, and J. Turner. SIGCOMM Computer Communication Review, Volume 38, Issue 2 (March 2008), pages 69-74.
here and here.

18 10/31 pdf, pptx Data Center Software Networking: SDN Control Plane NOX: Towards an Operating System for Networks, N. Gude, T. Koponen, J. Pettit, B. Pfaff, M. Casado, N. McKeown, and S. Shenker. SIGCOMM Computer Communication Review, Volume 38, Issue 3 (July 2008), pages 105-110.
here and here.

  11/03   No Lecture: Check Lab Schedule
19 11/05 pdf, pptx Data Center Software Networking: SDN Data Plane Implementing an OpenFlow switch on the NetFPGA platform, J. Naous, D. Erickson, G. A. Covington, G. Appenzeller, and N. McKeown. ACM/IEEE Symposium on Architectures for Networking and Communications Systems (ANCS), November 2008, pages 1-9.
here and here.

  11/07   No Lecture: Check Lab Schedule
20 11/10 pdf, pptx Data Center Traffic and Measurements Analysis and Network Traffic Characteristics of Data Centers in the wild, T. Benson, A. Akella, and D. A. Maltz. ACM SIGCOMM conference on Internet measurement (IMC), November 2010, pages 267-280.
here and here.

The Nature of Datacenter Traffic: Measurement, ACM SIGCOMM conference on Internet measurement (IMC), S. Kandula, S. Sengupta, A. Greenberg, P. Patel, and R. Chaiken. November 2009, pages 202-208.
here and here.

21 11/12 pdf, pptx Data Center Traffic and Measurements: SoNIC SoNIC: Precise Realtime Software Access and Control of Wired Networks, K. Lee, H. Wang and H. Weatherspoon. USENIX symposium on Networked Systems Design and Implementation (NSDI), April 2013, pages 213-225.
here.
22 11/14 pdf, pptx Data Center Traffic and Measurements Timing is Everything: Accurate, Minimum Overhead, Available Bandwidth Estimation in High-speed Wired Networks, H. Wang, K. Lee, E. Li, C. L. Lim, A. Tang, and H. Weatherspoon. ACM SIGCOMM Internet Measurement Conference (IMC), November 2014.
here.

23 11/17 pdf pptx Data Center Virtualization The Xen-Blanket: Virtualize Once, Run Everywhere, D. Williams, H. Jamjoom, and H. Weatherspoon. ACM European Conference on Computer Systems (EuroSys), April 2012, pages 113-126.
here and here.

Also, see Xen and the Art of Virtualization, Paul Barham, Boris Dragovic, Keir Fraser, Steven Hand, Tim Harris, Alex Ho, Rolf Neugebauer, Ian Pratt, Andrew Warfield. 19th ACM symposium on Operating systems principles (SOSP), October 2003, pages 164--177.
here and here.

24 11/19 pdf, pptx Data Center Virtualization: Openvswitch/mininet Extending networking into the virtualization layer, B. Pfaff, J. Pettit, T. Koponen, K. Amidon, M. Casado, S. Shenker. ACM SIGCOMM Workshop on Hot Topics in Networking (HotNets), October 2009.
here.
25 11/21 pdf, pptx Data Center Virtualization: Networking VirtualWires for Live Migrating Virtual Networks across Clouds, D. Williams, H. Jamjoom, Z. Jiang, and H. Weatherspoon. IBM Tech. Rep. RC25378, 2013.
here.
26 11/24 pdf, pptx Data Center Middleboxes Making middleboxes someone else's problem: network processing as a cloud service, J. Sherry, S. Hasan, C. Scott, A. Krishnamurthy, S. Ratnasamy, and V. Sekar. ACM SIGCOMM Computer Communication Review (CCR) Volume 42, Issue 4 (August 2012), pages 13-24.
here and here
  11/26-11/28   No Lecture: Thanksgiving Break
27 12/1 pdf, pptx Data Center Storage and Networking IOFlow: a software-defined storage architecture, E. Thereska, H. Ballani, G. O'Shea, T. Karagiannis, A. Rowstron, T. Talpey, R. Black, T. Zhu. ACM Symposium on Operating Systems Principles (SOSP), October 2013, pages 182-196.
here

28 12/3 pdf, pptx Future and Advanced Topics Plug into the Supercloud, D. Williams, H. Jamjoom, H. Weatherspoon. IEEE Internet Computing, Vol. 17, No 2, March/April 2013, pp 28-34.
here
  12/12   Demo Day!

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