RADSClassFall06/Calendar

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 Due/Out
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1
 8/28
 Overview:

DADO and RADS (DP)

 T1:

Ruby on Rails (PB,JZ)
Readings: Wikipedia entries on Model-View-Controller, Ruby on Rails tutorial

(if you are from the Schoolhouse Rock era, you might also enjoy this song explaining Model-View-Controller)

Lab 1: Deploy and monitor a RoR application
 AF out 8/28, 8/30
2
 9/4
 Holiday
 T3:

Web programming (AF) - Slides
Helpful readings: the Wikipedia entries on Apache, FastCGI, J2EE, Transaction monitors

 Lab 1 due Fri 9/8

Lab 2: identify and fix scaling bottlenecks of your RoR app, improve & measure
3
 9/11

Discuss Lab 1. Useful techniques for Lab 2: web server parameters, optimizing Rails code, caching. Slides

T7:

Monitoring, visualization (PB) slides
Reading: Combining Visualization and Statistical Analysis to Improve Operator Confidence and Efficiency for Failure Detection and Localization

 Lab 2 due Fri 9/15

Lab 3: Deploy to >1 machine
4
 9/18

Discuss Lab 2

T2: Web farms (AF)
Reading: Lessons From Giant-Scale Services

 T4:

VM's (DP),
Paper: Virtual Machine Monitors: Current Technology and Future Trends )
AF out 9/20
5
 9/25
 Speaker:

Daily Kos

T6: SML case studies - Slides
Reading: Choose one of:
a) Detecting Application-Level Failures in Component-Based Internet Services, or

b) Capturing, Indexing, Clustering and Retrieving System History

 Lab 3 due Fri 9/29

Lab 4: identify scaling bottlenecks of L3, improve & measure

 AF out 9/25
6
 10/2
 Discuss

Lab 3

 Speaker:

Partha Ranganathan (Power Management, HP Labs)

7
 10/9
 Bruce Nordman (LBL)
 Speaker:

DTrace

8
 10/16
 Discuss

Lab 4
Project discussions

 Speaker:

MapReduce
Reading: [http://labs.google.com/papers/mapreduce-osdi04.pdf MapReduce: Simplified Data Processing On Large Clusters]

9
 10/23
 Informal

but specific presentation of project idea

 Speaker: Mercury/Freon - Temperature Emulation and Management in Server Systems (ASPLOS paper coauthor and Google engineer)
 Project proposal & wiki

online

 ASPLOS Mon-Wed
10
 10/30
Guest

Speaker - Adv. topics - Moises Goldszmidt (MS Research Sil. Valley)

11
 11/6
Gerry Tesauro (IBM)
OSDI Mon-Wed
12
 11/13
 Class project meetings
 Discussion of Chubby and Bigtable OSDI papers (led by Armando)

13
 11/20
 In-class 5-minute project update presentations No class due to Thxgiving, but Dave and Armando will be available during normal class hours for project meetings if desired
14
 11/27
 Emre Kiciman (MSR)
 In-class 5-minute project updates #2

15
 12/4
 Retrospective/How to Have a Bad Career (and Give a Bad Talk) in Research/Academia
 No class
NIPS
16
 12/11
 No class (semester has ended)
 Talks: 11am-4pm in RAD Lab, with 1 hour lunch break (lunch will be provided)


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