[Rice University]COMP 520 Presentation Schedule - Fall 2011

Topics are firm, but dates are subject to slight changes.

All students are expected to have read the paper by the time of the presentation, and to actively participate in questioning and discussion.
 
 
Topic
Date
Presenter
"Implementing Remote Procedure Calls"
A.D. Birrell and B.J. Nelson
August 24
 Instructor
"The Peregrine High-Performance RPC System"
D.B. Johnson and W. Zwaenepoel
August 26
 Instructor
A.D. Birrell et al.
August 29
"Distributed Process Groups in the V Kernel''
D.R. Cheriton and W. Zwaenepoel
August 31
"Time, Clocks, and the Ordering of Events in a Distributed System"
L. Lamport
September 2
Labor Day September 5 N/A
Canceled September 7 N/A
"Lightweight Causal and Atomic Group Multicast"
K. Birman et al.
September 9
"Understanding the Limitations of Causally and Totally Ordered Communication"
D.R. Cheriton and D. Skeen
September 12
"Memory Coherence in Shared Virtual Memory Systems"
K. Li and P. Hudak
September 14
"TreadMarks: Shared Memory Computing on Networks of Workstations"
C. Amza et al.
September 16
"Run-Time Support for Distributed Sharing in Safe Languages"
Y. Hu et al.
 September 19
TBA September 21 Instructor
Canceled September 23 N/A
Canceled September 26 N/A
Canceled September 28 N/A
Canceled September 30 N/A
"Scale and Performance in a Distributed File System"
J.H. Howard et al.
October 3
Zekai (Jacob) Gao
"Caching in the Sprite Network File System"
M.N. Nelson et al.
October 5
 Myeongjae Jeon
"The Google File System"
S. Ghemawat et al.
October 7
Zhen Wang
Midterm Recess October 10 N/A
"Serverless Network File Systems"
T. Anderson et al.
October 12
TBA October 14 Instructor
"End-to-End Arguments in System Design"
Saltzer et al. 
October 17
 Daniel Podder
"Flexible Update Propagation for Weakly Consistent Replication"
K. Petersen et al.
October 19
 Jeff Bridge
"Disconnected Operation in the Coda File System"
J. Kistler and M. Satyanarayanan
October 21
 Yiqun Yao
"Locality-aware Request Distribution in Cluster-based Network Servers"
V. Pai et al.
October 24
"The Effectivenes of Request Redirection on CDN Robustness"
Wang et al.
October 26
Project Meeting October 28 Students
"MapReduce: Simplified Data Processing on Large Clusters"
J. Dean and S. Ghemawat
October 31
 Zekai (Jacob) Gao
"A Comparison of Approaches to Large-Scale Data Analysis"
Pavlo et al.
November 2
 Myeongjae Jeon
Project Meeting November 4 Students
"Storage management and caching in PAST, a large scale, persistent peer-to-peer storage utility"
A. Rowstron and P. Druschel.
November 7
 Yiqun Yao
"Enabling Conferencing Applications on the Internet using an Overlay Multicast Architecture"
Chu et al.		 November 9
Project Meeting November 11 Students
"The Byzantine Generals Problem"
L. Lamport et al.
November 14
 Jeff Bridge
"Paxos Made Simple"
L. Lamport
November 16
 Daniel Podder
Project Meeting November 18 Students
"Practical Byzantine Fault Tolerance"
M. Castro and B. Liskov
 November 21
 Zhen Wang
TBA November 23 Instructor
Thanksgiving Recess November 25 N/A
Project Presentations
November 28
Students
Project Presentations
November 30
Students
Class cancelled / Project Reports Due December 2 N/A