Spring 2009 - COMP 4704 - Admin 03: Presentation Schedule

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Potential Systems (Feel free to propose your own)

• Astrolabe
• Bayou
• CORBA
• Coda File System
• CoDoNS
• DEMOS/MP
• Dynamo
• FUSE
• Frangipani
• GLOBUS
• Grapefruit
• Ivy
• Jade
• JBoss Clustering
• LOCUS
• LOKSS
• MPI
• Mercury
• Resilient Overlay Networks
• Scribe
• Sprite
• Tapestry
• Zap

Class 2: April 9, 2009

1. Chord (Knipmeyer)
2. BitTorrent (Rutherford)

Class 3: April 16, 2009

1. Content-Addressable Network (CAN) (Mihalik)
2. Globe (Ropp)
3. FreeNet (Looney)

Class 4: April 23, 2009

1. VMWare (Medhin)
2. Plan 9 (Riechel)
   • Motivation (p1)
   • Design (p2)
   • The File Server (p5)
   • Portability and Compilation (p10, optional)
   • Parallel Programming (p11)
   • Implementation of Name Spaces (p12, optional)
   • Networks and Communication Devices (p15)
   • The IL Protocol (p16)
   • Overview of Authentication (p17)
   • Discussion (p20)
3. MapReduce (McGough)

Class 5: April 30, 2009

1. CUDA / Cell (Kotowski)
2. FARSITE (Burton)
3. Amoeba (Lo)

Class 6: May 7, 2009

1. OSPF (PDF Here)(Nava)
2. TLS / HTTPS (PDF Here) (Haase)
3. Pastry (Wilson)
   • Abstract
   • Section 1: Introduction
   • Section 2: Design

Class 7: May 14, 2009

1. Porcupine (Mitchell)
   • Sections 1 – 5
2. The X Window System (Bowman)
   • Section 1
   • Sections 2 – 8 (leading paragraphs only -- i.e., before the first subsection)
   • Section 9
3. Dryad (Jenkins)
4. xFS (Christensen)

Class 8: May 21, 2009

1. Autonomous Intersection Management (Jaynes)
2. Google File System (Schallenmuller)
3. Pangaea (Armetta)
4. Sun GRID (Brown)
   • Chapters 1 and 2

Class 9: May 28, 2009

Distributed Web-Based Systems

1. Akamai (Massey)
2. Globule (Carroll)
3. Squid – Caching Tutorial for Web Authors and Webmasters (PDF Here) (Scoville)

Class 10: June 4, 2009

Distributed Coordination-Based System

1. CBN (Knutsen)
2. Elvin Page. PDF version of their 1997 AUUP Paper here (Coggins)
3. Lime (Bell)