| Monday | Tuesday | Wednesday | Thursday | Friday |
| Jan 15 No class |
Jan 16 | Jan 17 Lec-1: Introduction: Memory & Storage Systems Assignment-0: student information sheet |
Jan 18 | Jan 19 |
| Jan 22 Lec-2: Big Memory Management Reading: DirectSegment (ISCA'13), Igens (OSDI'16) Optional: RMM (ISCA'16), SpaceJMP (ASPLOS'16) |
Jan 23 | Jan 24 Lec-3: Virtual Memory and Address Translation Reading: MIX TLB (ASPLOS'17), SharedTLB (EuroSys'16) Optional: SpecTLB (ISCA'11), Mallacc (ASPLOS'17) Assignment-1: Test your machine's memory hierarchy |
Jan 25 | Jan 26 |
| Jan 29 Lec-4: Non-Volatile Memory System I Reading: PCM (ISCA'09), PMFS (EuroSys'14, Best Paper) Optional: BPFS (SOSP'09), Mnemosyne (ASPLOS'11), NV-Heaps (ASPLOS'11), Aerie (EuroSys'14) |
Jan 30 | Jan 31 Lec-5: Non-Volatile Memory System II Reading: NOVA-Fortis (SOSP'17), Kamino-Tx (EuroSys'17) Optional: NV-Tree (FAST'15), Mojim (ASPLOS'15) |
Feb 1 | Feb 2 Assignment-1 Due (Deadline extended to 11:59am Feb 4) |
| Feb 5 Lec-6: Memory Persistency Reading: Memory Persistency (ISCA'14), Kiln (MICRO'13) Optional: Persistent Transactions (ASPLOS'15), Proteus (MICRO'17) Assignment-2: GC Schemes in SSDs |
Feb 6 | Feb 7 Lec-7: Flash Memory Reading: DFTL (ASPLOS'09), FlashMap (ISCA'15) Optional: MARS (SOSP'13), Transactional Flash (OSDI'08), F2FS (FAST'15) Slides: Lec7-1, Lec7-2 |
Feb 8 | Feb 9 |
| Feb 12 Lec-8: DRAM System (Guest lecture by Prof. Nam Sung Kim) Slides |
Feb 13 | Feb 14 Lec-9: Software Defined Flash Reading: FlashBlox (FAST'17), App-Managed Flash (FAST'16) Optional: SDF (ASPLOS'14), LightNVM (FAST'17) Slides: Lec9-1, Lec9-2 |
Feb 15 | Feb 16 |
| Feb 19 Lec-10: Predictable Storage Performance Reading: Split-Level I/O Scheduling (SOSP'15), MittOS (SOSP'17) Optional: Differentiated Storage (SOSP'11) |
Feb 20 | Feb 21 Lec-11: Near-Storage Computing I Reading: Willow (OSDI'14), Biscuit (ISCA'16), Optional: Summarizer (MICRO'17) |
Feb 22 | Feb 23 Assignment-2 Due |
| Feb 26 Lec-12: Near-Storage Computing II Reading: BlueDBM (ISCA'15), TOM (ISCA'16) Optional: Morpheus (ISCA'16) |
Feb 27 | Feb 28 Lec-13: Heterogeneous Memory Systems Reading: Data Tiering (EuroSys'16), Strata (SOSP'17) Optional: NVDIMM (MICRO'16), Stacked DRAM (MICRO'14) |
Mar 1 | Mar 2 |
| Mar 5 Lec-14: Reliable Storage Systems Reading: Push-Button Verification (OSDI'16, Best Paper), Container-based FS (OSDI'14) Optional: FS Model Checking (OSDI'04, Best Paper), Differential RAID (EuroSys'10) |
Mar 6 | Mar 7 Lec-15: Secure Memory System Reading: Silent Shredder (ASPLOS'17), ANVIL (ASPLOS'16) Optional: Memory Errors (ASPLOS'15), DEUCE (ASPLOS'15) |
Mar 8 | Mar 9 |
| Mar 12 Lec-16: Secure Storage System Reading: FlashGuard (CCS'17), Storage Security Evalation (FAST'02) Optional: Self-Securing Storage (OSDI'00) |
Mar 13 | Mar 14 Lec-17: Project Proposal Presentation |
Mar 15 | Mar 16 |
| Mar 19 No Class | Mar 20 | Mar 21 No Class |
Mar 22 | Mar 23 |
| Mar 26 Lec-18: In-Memory Storage Systems Reading: RAMCloud (SOSP'13), FaRM (NSDI'14) Optional: Log-structured Memory (FAST'14) |
Mar 27 | Mar 28 Lec-19: High-Performance In-Memory Applications Reading: In-Memory Databases (SOSP'13), In-Memory Transaction Processing (SOSP'15) Optional: Phase Reconciliation (OSDI'14) |
Mar 29 | Mar 30 |
| Apr 2 Lec-20: Rack-Scale Storage I Reading: Disaggregated Memory (ISCA'09), ReFlex (ASPLOS'17) Optional: Flash Storage Disaggregation (EuroSys'16), QuickSAN (ISCA'13) |
Apr 3 | Apr 4 Lec-21: Rack-Scale Storage II Reading: Pelican (OSDI'14), InfiniSwap (NSDI'17) Optinonal: Network Requirement for Resource Disaggregation (OSDI'16) |
Apr 5 | Apr 6 |
| Apr 9 Lec-22: Cloud Storage Reading: Multi-tenant Cloud Storage (OSDI'12), IOFlow (SOSP'13) Optional: Virtual IOPS (EuroSys'14), Consistency-Based SLA (SOSP'13) |
Apr 10 | Apr 11 Lec-23: Memory Management in Systems Virtualization Reading: VMware ESX (OSDI'02), Hardware-Assisted Page Walks (ISCA'12) Optional: VSwapper (ASPLOS'14), 2D Page Walks (ASPLOS'08) |
Apr 12 | Apr 13 |
| Apr 16 Lec-24: Memory/Storage for Hardware Accelerators Reading: Cohesion (ISCA'10), GPUfs (ASPLOS'13) Optional: Unified Address Space (ASPLOS'14), ActivePointers (ISCA'16) |
Apr 17 | Apr 18 Lec-25: Mobile/Wearable/IoT Storage Reading: WearDrive (USENIX ATC'15, Best Paper), SummaryStore (SOSP'17) Optional: Revisiting Mobile Storage (FAST'12), BtrDB (FAST'16) |
Apr 19 | Apr 20 |
| Apr 23 Lec-26: When Memory/Storage Meet Networking Reading: IncBricks (ASPLOS'17), NetCache (SOSP'17) Optional: sRoute (FAST'16), Page Fault for Network Controller (ASPLOS'17) |
Apr 24 | Apr 25 Lec-27: Large-Scale Distributed Storage Systems Reading: Spanner (OSDI'12), SVE (SOSP'17) Optional: F4 (OSDI'14), Azure Storage (SOSP'13) |
Apr 26 | Apr 27 |
| Apr 30 No Class | May 1 | May 2 No Class |
May 3 | May 4 |
| May 7 Lec-28: Final Exam (tentative) | May 8 | May 9 | May 10 |
May 11 Lec-29: Final Project Presentation (tentative) |