Please direct any questions to the Computing Services Help Center at it-help@cmu.edu or 412-268-4357 (HELP). Off-Campus Access Requirements Off-campus users will need to use the Cisco AnyConnect VPN client to access SPARCS. Homebrew’s package index. A2ps: 4.14: Any-to-PostScript filter: a52dec: 0.7.4: Library for decoding ATSC A/52 streams (AKA 'AC-3').
Carnegie Mellon Cloud Storage
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Carnegie Mellon University student, faculty and staff can sign up for online cloud storage with Box.com. Minecraft 0. Windows 7 ultimate working product key 2015. 16 0 apk aptoide. For information on the features and on how to signup, see:
http://www.cmu.edu/computing/accounts/storage/options/box/index.html
Heinz File Servers
Lobby Share (L: Drive)
The Lobby share (L: drive) contains folders and files for courses and student project folders. When you log into the virtual lab, the Lobby share is mapped to the L: drive
How to Access The File Server - Windows 10
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- If you are off campus, connect to theVPN.
- ClickStart. In the Search field, type:nas.heinz.local.cmu.edulobby
- Press theEnterkey.
- TheWindows Securitywindow appears. Type:
Username: andrewyour Andrew username
Password: [your Andrew password]
Click theOKbutton.- A window will appear with a list of folders you have access to.
Students: Master students personal file storage. Master students have 10GB or storage space.
Lobby: Contains academic and student project files.
How to Access The File Server - Windows 8
- If you are off campus, connect to theVPN.
- Go to yourStartmenu. Type: as.heinz.local.cmu.edulobby
Press theEnterkey. - TheWindows Securitywindow appears. Type:
Username: andrewyour Andrew user name
Password: [your Andrew password]
Click theOKbutton. - A window will appear with a list of folders your have access to.
Students: Master students personal file storage. Master students have 10GB or storage space.
Lobby: Contains academic and student project files.
How to Access The File Server - Mac
- If you are off campus, connect to theVPN.
- OpenFinder. On the menu bar, clickGothenConnect to Server..
- TheConnect to Serverwindow will appear. In theServer Addressfield, type:
smb://andrew;edwardm@nas.heinz.local.cmu.edu/lobby - Click the+button to add the server to your favorites list. Click theConnectbutton.
- Theloginwindow appears.
Connect as: Registered User
Name: [your Andrew username]
Password: [your Andrew password]
Click theConnectbutton - Students: Master students personal file storage. Master students have 10GB of storage space.
Lobby: Contains academic and student project files.
VPN
If you are not on the campus network, you will need to connect to the VPNbeforeyou can access some computing resources like the Heinz-bolt file server. Download and install the Cisco AnyConnect VPN client from the main campus computing website: https://www.cmu.edu/computing/services/endpoint/network-access/vpn/
Tentative Schedule
The schedule is also available as an ical file that you can subscribe to.
Lectures and projects can only be accessed by clients with a CMU IP address. CMU students who are off campus can use Cisco AnyConnect VPN to obtain a CMU IP. Most readings require that you have access to ACM or IEEE's digital library. You will automatically have access if you are using a client with a CMU IP.
| Lecture | Date | Lecturer | Topics | Required readings | Optional readings | Notes |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Mon 08/31 | Greg | Overview and Flash SSD Operation [pdf] | Syllabus, Agrawal2008 | Hennessy2002, Harchol2000 | |
| 2 | Wed 09/02 | Greg and Brian | Flash SSD Operation and Lab 1 Walkthrough [pdf] | Agrawal2008 | He2017, Mogul2009, ArpaciDusseau2015 ch44 | Slides for the myFTL project are available here. Lab 1, Checkpoint 0 and Checkpoint 1 are released. |
| Mon 09/07 | Neither | No class (Labor Day) | ||||
| 3 | Wed 09/09 | George | Disk Drive Operation [pdf] | Ruemmler1994, Worthington1994 | Massiglia1986 ch2 1, Massiglia1986 ch2 2, Massiglia1986 ch12, ArpaciDusseau2015 ch37 | Read pages 2-1 to 2-20 from Massiglia_ch2_1, 2-38 to 2-52 from Massiglia_ch2_2, and 12-1 to 12-11 from Massiglia_ch12. |
| 4 | Mon 09/14 | George | Disk Drive Operation (cont'd) [pdf] | Ruemmler1994, Worthington1994 | Massiglia1986 ch2 1, Massiglia1986 ch2 2, Massiglia1986 ch12, ArpaciDusseau2015 ch37 | Read pages 2-1 to 2-20 from Massiglia_ch2_1, 2-38 to 2-52 from Massiglia_ch2_2, and 12-1 to 12-11 from Massiglia_ch12. |
| 5 | Wed 09/16 | George | File System Storage Layout [pdf] | McKusick1996 ch8, Lee2015 | Ren2013, Rodeh2013, ArpaciDusseau2015 ch40, ArpaciDusseau2015 ch43 | |
| 6 | Mon 09/21 | George | File System Organization [pdf] | Vahalia1995 ch8 | Giampaolo1998 ch2, ArpaciDusseau2015 ch39, ArpaciDusseau2015 ch40 | |
| 7 | Wed 09/23 | Greg | Caching and File System Integrity [pdf] | Ganger2000, Giampaolo1998 ch7 | ArpaciDusseau2015 ch42, Fryer2012 | |
| 8 | Mon 09/28 | George | Disk Array Organization [pdf] | Chen1994, Schroeder2007 | Schroeder2016, ArpaciDusseau2015 ch38 | |
| 9 | Wed 09/30 | George | Disk Array Systems [pdf] | Chen1994, Hetzler2011 | Greenan2010, Krioukov2008 | |
| 10 | Mon 10/05 | Rekha Pitchumani (Research Manager, Samsung) | The Many Futures of NAND Flash SSDs | |||
| 11 | Wed 10/07 | Tim Emami (Sr Technical Director, NetApp) | Great File Systems Can Adapt | Hitz1994, Maneas2020 | ||
| Mon 10/12 | Both | Catch-up lecture + Exam 1 Q&A | ||||
| Wed 10/14 | Both | Exam 1 [pdf] | Exam1 S04 Q, Exam1 F05 Q, Exam1 F06 Q, Exam1 S08 Q, Exam1 S09 Q, Exam1 S10 Q, Exam1 S11 Q, Exam1 S14 Q, Exam1 S15 Q, Exam1 F15 Q, Exam1 F16 Q, Exam1 F17 Q, Exam1 F18 Q, Exam1 F19 Q | Exam1 S04 A, Exam1 F05 A, Exam1 F06 A, Exam1 S08 A, Exam1 S09 A, Exam1 S10 A, Exam1 S11 A, Exam1 S12 A, Exam1 S13 A, Exam1 S14 A, Exam1 S15 A, Exam1 F15 A, Exam1 F16 A, Exam1 F17 A, Exam1 F18 A, Exam1 F19 A | Exam 1 covers all material up to and including the week before the exam, including the projects. Try taking the Practice exams without looking at the answers. | |
| 12 | Mon 10/19 | George | Distributed FS and NAS Interfaces [pdf] | McKusick1996 ch9 | Howard1988, ArpaciDusseau2015 ch47, ArpaciDusseau2015 ch48, ArpaciDusseau2015 ch49, RFC1813 | |
| 13 | Wed 10/21 | Greg & George | More Distributed FS and Multi-server Distributed FSs [pdf] | McKusick1996 ch9 | Howard1988, ArpaciDusseau2015 ch47, ArpaciDusseau2015 ch48, ArpaciDusseau2015 ch49, RFC1813 | Slides for the CloudFS project are available here. |
| 14 | Mon 10/26 | Greg | Extremely scalable storage [pdf] | Ghemawat2003, Chang2006 | Dean2004 | |
| 15 | Wed 10/28 | Greg | More multi-server Distributed File Systems [pdf] | McKusick1996 ch9 | Howard1988, ArpaciDusseau2015 ch47, ArpaciDusseau2015 ch48, ArpaciDusseau2015 ch49, RFC1813, Anderson1995 | Note the addition of Anderson1995 in the Optional Readings list. |
| 16 | Mon 11/02 | Greg | Reliability enchancement techniques [pdf] | Holland1994, Welch2008 | ||
| Wed 11/04 | Neither | No class | ||||
| 17 | Mon 11/09 | Larry Greenfield, Storage Group, Google | Evolution of Google FSs | Dean2013 | ||
| 18 | Wed 11/11 | George | Backup and data protection [pdf] | Keeton2004 | Amvrosiadis2016 | |
| 19 | Mon 11/16 | Greg and George | More Data Protection and Extremely Scalable Storage [pdf] | Chang2006 | Readings from Lectures 14 and 18 also apply here | |
| 20 | Wed 11/18 | Ayman Abouelwafa (HPE Fellow and Storage Division CTO) | Data Storage Past and Future | |||
| 21 | Mon 11/23 | Huaicheng Li, Parallel Data Lab | Ins and Outs of Storage Offloading using ARM SoCs [pdf] | Li2020 | Kanev2015, Ouyang2014, Koo2017 | |
| Wed 11/25 | Neither | No class (Thanksgiving) | ||||
| 22 | Mon 11/30 | Mike Kazar and Jeff Butler, Microsoft | Azure HPC Cache and vFXT [pdf] | Howard1988 | RFC1813 | Take a look at Azure HPC Cache and Avere vFXT for Azure. |
| 23 | Wed 12/02 | Wenguang Wang (Senior Staff Engineer, VMware) | vSAN, VDFS, and Their Cache Design [pdf] | |||
| Mon 12/07 | Both | Exam 2 Q&A | ||||
| Wed 12/09 | Both | Exam 2 [pdf] | Exam2 F05 Q, Exam2 S08 Q, Exam2 S09 Q, Exam2 S10 Q, Exam2 S11 Q, Exam2 S14 Q, Exam2 S15 Q, Exam2 F15 Q, Exam2 F16 Q, Exam2 F17 Q, Exam2 F18 Q, Exam2 F19 Q | Exam2 F05 A, Exam2 S08 A, Exam2 S09 A, Exam2 S10 A, Exam2 S11 A, Exam2 S12 A, Exam2 S13 A, Exam2 S14 A, Exam2 S15 A, Exam2 F15 A, Exam2 F16 A, Exam2 F17 A, Exam2 F18 Q, Exam2 F19 A | Exam 2 covers all material up to and including the week before the exam, including the projects. Try taking the Practice exams without looking at the answers. |