CSL862 : Virtualization and Cloud Computing - II : Schedule

Sem I, 2011-12

Links to notes etc. on future days are tentative only. They are here only to give you an idea what the future will bring.
MondayTuesdayWednesdayThursdayFriday
Jul 25
Introduction
Jul 26
Jul 27
Jul 28
..contd.
Jul 29
Aug 1
..contd.
Aug 2
Aug 3
Aug 4
A Comparison of Software and Hardware Techniques for x86 Virtualization
PREP: Read paper
Aug 5
Aug 8
Xen and the Art of Virtualization
PREP: Read paper
Aug 9
Aug 10
Aug 11
Tuesday Aug 16:Memory Resource Management in VMware ESX Server
PREP: Read paper, do homework
Aug 12
Aug 15
Independence Day
Aug 16
Aug 17
Aug 18
Accelerating Two-Dimensional Page Walks for Virtualized Systems
PREP: Read paper
Aug 19
Aug 22
Janmashtmi
Aug 23
Aug 24
Aug 25
Virtualizing I/O Devices on VMware Workstation's Hosted Virtual Machine Monitor
PREP: Read paper
Aug 26
Aug 29
Bare-Metal Performance for I/O Virtualization
PREP: Read paper. Read about SR-IOV.
Aug 30
Aug 31
Sep 1
MINOR1 TESTS
Sep 2
Sep 5
No Lecture.
Sep 6
Sep 7
Sep 8
vIC: Interrupt Coalescing for Virtual Machine Storage Device IO
PREP: Read paper, optionally view video and slides
Sep 9
Sep 12
Protection Strategies for Direct Access to Virtualized I/O Devices
PREP: Read paper
Sep 13
Sep 14
Sep 15
vIOMMU: Efficient IOMMU Emulation
PREP: Read paper, optionally view video and slides
Return of Minor-1 scripts
Sep 16
Sep 19
ReTrace: Collecting Execution Trace with Virtual Machine Deterministic Replay
PREP: Read paper
Sep 20
Sep 21
Sep 22
Record-Replay
PREP: Read paper
Sep 23
Sep 26
..contd.
Sep 27
Sep 28
Sep 29
Execution Replay for Multiprocessor Virtual Machines
PREP: do homework
Sep 30
Oct 3
DoublePlay: Parallelizing Sequential Logging and Replay
PREP: Read paper
Oct 4
Oct 5
Oct 6
Dussehra
Oct 7
Oct 10
MINOR2 TESTS
Oct 11
Oct 12
Oct 13
In-class Minor2
Oct 14
Oct 17
The Google File System
PREP: Read paper
Oct 18
Oct 19
Oct 20
..contd.
Oct 21
Oct 24
Mid-sem break
Oct 25
Oct 26
Oct 27
Mid-sem break
Oct 28
Oct 31
Bigtable: A Distributed Storage System for Structured Data
PREP: Read paper
Nov 1
Nov 2
Nov 3
MapReduce: Simplified Data Processing on Large Clusters
PREP: Read paper.
Nov 4
Nov 7
..contd.
PREP: do homework.
Nov 8
Nov 9
Nov 10
Guru Nanak's Birthday
Nov 11
Nov 14
Deconstructing Amazon EC2 Spot Instance Pricing
PREP: Read paper.
Nov 15
Nov 16
Nov 17
The Turtles Project: Design and Implementation of Nested Virtualization
PREP: Read paper.
Nov 18