Possibly useful as references in your projects:
Your final grade for the course will be based on:
The midterms will be non-cumulative midterms, one in the middle and one towards the end of the semester.
This class is evolving rapidly; everything here, including the grading criteria, is subject to change.
Also available as an ical file that you can subscribe to.
Note: The schedule is (clearly) still evolving. For an unordered list of papers we'll be reading, see the course Wiki.
| Date | Instructor | Notes | Readings |
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| Tue 01/13 | Introduction; the big picture [txt] |
None | |
| Surveying the Landscape of Low-Power Computing | |||
| Thu 01/15 | The Host 1--Frequency and voltage scaling, electronics |
MOSFET operation example | Weiser-OSDI1994, Lorch-Mobisys2003 |
| Tue 01/20 | The Datacenter 1--Cluster Services |
Tolia-HotPower2008, Lorch-NSDI2008 | |
| Thu 01/22 | The Network--lower-power architectures [pdf] |
Keslassy-Sigcomm2003, AlFares-Sigcomm2008 | |
| Tue 01/27 | The Global Enterprise---moving computation geographically [pdf] |
Qureshi-HotNets2008, Church-HotNets2008, Nedevschi-HotPower2008 | |
| Thu 01/29 | Power Saving for Wireless 1---two nodes [pdf] |
Wang-Wireless2006, Krashinsky-Mobicom2002 | |
| Sensor Networks | |||
| Tue 02/03 | Sensor Networks 1 [pdf] |
Dutta-xsm, Klues-sosp2007 | |
| Thu 02/05 | Sensor Networks 2 - Energy from the Environment [pdf] |
Scan through the Simulating Power paper to get an idea of the methods and tools. Don't have to read it in huge detail. | Shnayder-sensis04, Kansal-spots05, Jiang-spots05 |
| Tue 02/10 | Sensor Networks 3 - Aggregation and Energy Balance |
guest lecture, Phil Gibbons, Intel Research Please read the first two papers, and briefly scan the third. |
Nath-Gibbons-vldb08, Synopsis-sensys, ACQP-sigmod03 |
| Thu 02/12 | Sensor Networks - Going tiny with RFID [pdf] |
pervasive-rfid is an easy to read RFID background Folks interested in energy harvesting should peek at Experimental Results with Two Wireless Power Transfer Systems - harvesting energy from a nearby TV tower. |
WISP-ieee2008, pervasive-rfid |
| From Sensors to VMs - offloading computation | |||
| Tue 02/17 | Each unto their abilities... [pdf] |
TENET-SenSys2006, Kimberley-MobiVirt2008 | |
| Thu 02/19 | VMs and Datacenter Power Management [pdf] |
NoPower is quite math-y; read to get the gist... | HPC-Power, NoPower |
| Tue 02/24 | Supercomputers - BlueGene and Beyond [pdf] |
See also the Wikipedia article about the Roadrunner supercomputer. | BlueGene, GreenDestiny |
| Thu 02/26 | No class today |
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| Tue 03/03 | Handing Power Management in VMs [pdf] |
VirtualPower | |
| Saving power in Storage Systems | |||
| Thu 03/05 | Storage Technologies Overview [pdf] |
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| Tue 03/10 | Spring Break |
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| Thu 03/12 | Spring Break |
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| Tue 03/17 | Project Updates |
Each group should have a roughly 5 minute talk summarizing where they are and where they're going. | |
| Thu 03/19 | Single Disk Storage [pdf] |
SpinDown, TwoSpeedDisks | |
| Tue 03/24 | Managing Power in Enterprise Storage [pdf] |
WriteOffload, PARAID | |
| Thu 03/26 | We need disks. Lots of idle disks. [pdf] |
MAID, Pergamum | |
| Tue 03/31 | Class canceled |
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| Thu 04/02 | Wimpy Wimpy Wimpy, Hefty Hefty Hefty [pdf] |
JouleSort Gordon FAWN | Gordon, JouleSort |
| Tue 04/07 | Gordon continued, FAWN [pdf] |
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| Thu 04/09 | The Network 2 - putting it to sleep |
Nedevschi-NSDI2009, Agarwal-NSDI2009 | |
| Tue 04/14 | Back to the Big Picture [pdf] |
Watch the google videos, they're cool. | Katz-SmartGrid, Katz-Datacenters, Google-DataCenters |
| Thu 04/16 | Carnival |
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| Tue 04/21 | Energy and computing broadly considered |
Guest lecture, Jason Campbell, Intel | |
| Thu 04/23 | No class - finish up presentations |
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| Tue 04/28 | Project Presentations |
derosa group, vikramg group, milop group | |
| Thu 04/30 | Project Presentations |
vrv group, lparolin group, jbauman group, mwachs group | |
| Thu 05/07 | Final reports due in dga's office by 3pm |
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