CPSC 722: Advanced Systems Topics, Fall 2011

Course materials

Reading schedule

• Thu Sep 8: no meeting

• Thu Sep 15: organizational meeting

• Thu Sep 22: Amittai Aviram - internship report (slides)

• Thu Sep 29: Presenter: Ewa Syta (slides)
  Paper: "Finding a needle in Haystack: facebook's photo storage," OSDI'10
  Authors: Doug Beaver, Sanjeev Kumar, Harry C. Li, Jason Sobel, and Peter Vajgel

• Thu Oct 06: Pesenter: Ennan Zhai (slides)
  Paper: "DSybil: Optimal Sybil-Resistance for Recommendation Systems," IEEE Symposium on Security and Privacy'09
  Authors: Haifeng Yu, Chenwei Shi, Michael Kaminsky, Phillip B. Gibbons, and Feng Xiao

• Thu Oct 13: Presenter: Weiyi Wu (slides)
  Paper: "Piccolo: Building Fast, Distributed Programs with Partitioned Tables," OSDI'10
  Authors: Russell Power and Jinyang Li

• Thu Oct 20: Presenter: Zhongyan Wu (Jason) (slides)
  Paper: "Chord: A Scalable Peer-to-peer Lookup Service for Internet Applications," SIGCOMM'01
  Authors: Ion Stoica, Robert Morris, David Karger, M. Frans Kaashoek, Hari Balakrishnan

• Thu Oct 27: Presenter: Ronghui Gu (slides)
  Paper: "Do incentives build robustness in BitTorrent?," NSDI'07
  Authors: Michael Piatek, Tomas Isdal, Thomas Anderso, Arvind Krishnamurthy, Arun Venkataramani

• Thu Nov 3: Presenter: Naser Alduaij (slides)
  Paper: "MapReduce: Simplified Data Processing on Large Clusters ," OSDI'04
  Authors: Jeffrey Dean and Sanjay Ghemawat, Google, Inc.

• Thu Nov 10: Presenter: Ennan Zhai (slides)
  Paper: "Experience with an Object Reputation System for Peer-to-Peer Filesharing," NSDI'06
  Authors: Kevin Walsh and Emin Gün Sirer

• Thu Nov 17: Presenter: Ewa Syta (slides)
  Paper: "Hey, you, get off of my cloud: exploring information leakage in third-party compute clouds ,"CCS'09
  Authors: Thomas Ristenpart, Eran Tromer, Hovav Shacham, and Stefan Savage

• Thu Nov 24: No Seminar (Thanksgiving)

• Thu Dec 1 @ 10:30AM: Presenter: Naser Alduaij (slides)
  Paper: "The Turtles Project: Design and Implementation of Nested Virtualization," OSDI'10
  Authors: Muli Ben-Yehuda et al.

• Thu Dec 1: Presenter: Weiyi Wu (slides)
  Paper: "DMP: deterministic shared memory multiprocessing," ASPLOS'09
  Authors: Joseph Devietti, Brandon Lucia, Luis Ceze, Mark Oskin

• Thu Dec 8 @ 11:30AM: Presenter: Ronghui Gu (slides)
  Paper: "i3: Internet Indirection Infrastructure," SIGCOMM'02
  Authors: Ion Stoica, Daniel Adkins, Shelley Zhuang, Scott Shenker, Sonesh Surana

• Thu Dec 15 @ 11:30AM: Presenter: Zhongyan Wu (Jason) (slides)
  Paper: "Vanish: Increasing Data Privacy with Self-Destructing Data"
  Authors: Roxana Geambasu, Tadayoshi Kohno, Amit A. Levy, and Henry M. Levy

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