| Date | Lecture & Presentations | Reading Assignment | Person |
|---|---|---|---|
| 8/23 | The Future of High-Performance Networking (8/23, 8/28) | Chapters 1 and 2 | Feng |
| 8/30 | High-Performance Networking: Trends & Challenges (8/30, 9/04) | Feng | |
| 9/06 | Discussion: Oral Presentation Advice & Practice on Semke et al. paper | Feng | |
| 9/11 | Semke et al., "Automatic TCP Buffer Tuning," ACM SIGCOMM, Oct. 1998; Fisk et al., "Dynamic Adjustment of TCP Window Sizes," LANL Tech Report, 2000. |
Appendix C | Afrushteh |
| 9/13 | Weigle et al., "Dynamic Right-Sizing: A Simulation Study," ICCCN, Oct. 2001 | Chapter 4 | Kumar |
| 9/18 | Projects Meeting for Infrastructure Needs, Room 2225 KWII, 11AM-1PM | Archuleta | |
| 9/20 | Weigle et al., "A Comparison of TCP Automatic Tuning Techniques for Distributed Computing," IEEE HPDC, July 2002. | Chapter 13 | Chaube |
| 9/25 |
Mo et al., "Analysis and Comparison of TCP Reno and Vegas," IEEE INFOCOM,
March 1999. Kurata et al., "Fairness Comparisons Between TCP Reno and TCP Vegas ...," INET 2000, July 2000. |
Chapter 11 | Narayanaswamy |
| 9/27 | Hengartner et al., "TCP Vegas Revisited," IEEE INFOCOM, March 2000. Feng et al., "Enabling Compatibility Between TCP Reno and TCP Vegas," IEEE SAINT, January 2003. |
Chapters 5 and 11 | Sundararaman |
| 10/02 | Xu et al., "Binary Increase Congestion Control for Fast Long-Distance
Networks," IEEE INFOCOM 2004. Rhee et al., "CUBIC: A New TCP-Friendly High-Speed TCP Variant," PFLDnet 2005. |
Chapters 5 and 11 | Scogland |
| 10/04 | Tan et al., "A Compound TCP Approach for High-speed and Long Distance
Networks," Microsoft Technical Report MSR-TR-2005-86, July 2005. For reference only, Scalable Networking: Network Protocol Offload - Introducing TCP Chimney (no need for a written critique for TCP Chimney) | Chapters 5 and 11 | Shah, A. |
| 10/11 | Distinguished Talk: Exploiting Sequential Locality for Fast Disk Accesses, 110 KWII at 4:30PM | Zhang, Xiaodong | |
| 10/16 | Katabi et al., "Congestion Control for High Bandwidth-Delay Product Networks," ACM SIGCOMM 2002. | Kulkarni, Ajit | |
| 10/18 | Progress Reports on Semester Projects | ||
| 10/25 | He et al., "Reliable Blast UDP: Predictable High-Performance Bulk-Data Transfer," IEEE International Conference on Cluster Computing, Sept. 2002. | Chaube | |
| 11/01 |
Banerjee et al., "RAPID: An End-System Aware Protocol for Intelligent
Data-Transfer over LambdaGrids," IEEE International Parallel &
Distributed Processing Symposium, Apr. 2006. Datta et al., "End-System Aware, Rate-Adaptive Protocol for Network Transport in LabmdaGrid Environments," SC|06, Nov. 2006. |
Kumar | |
| 11/06 | Veeraraghavan et al., "CHEETAH: Circuit-Switched High-Speed End-to-End Transport Architecture," SPIE/IEEE Optical Networking and Computing, Oct. 2003 | Nova Bryant | |
| 11/08 |
Boden et al., "Myrinet: A Gigabit-per-Second Local Area Network,"
IEEE Micro, Jan.-Feb. 1995. Petrini et al., "The Quadrics Network (QsNet): High Perfromance Clustering Technology," IEEE Micro, Jan.-Feb. 2002. |
Shah, H | |
| 11/27 | Discussion of Graded Work | ||
| 11/29 | White Paper, "Introduction to InfiniBand," http://www.mellanox.com/pdf/whitepapers/IB_Intro_WP_190.pdf | Liesveld | |
| 12/04 |
Hurwitz et al., "End-to-End Performance of 10-Gigabit Ethernet on Commodity Systems," IEEE Micro, Jan.-Feb. 2004. Balaji et al., "Bridging the Ethernet-Ethernot Performance Gap," IEEE Micro, May-Jun. 2007. |
General Discussion | |
| 12/11 |
Semester Project Presentations, Part I, 9:30AM-10:45AM. |
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| 12/13 |
Semester Project Presentations, Part II, 10:00AM-12:05PM. Pizza will be served. |