Lecture Slides

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.
12/13 Semester Project Presentations, Part II, 10:00AM-12:05PM.
Pizza will be served.