Schedule

Last Updated: October 30th, 2021
Final Schedule.

Date	Readings	Topic	Notes
September 7, 2021	Introduction to Datacenter Computing	Introduction	slides
September 9, 2021	Refresh on Computer Architecture	Introduction	slides
September 14, 2021	Hey, You, Get Off of My Cloud:Exploring Information Leakage in Third-Party Compute Clouds, CCS'09. HomeAlone: Co-residency Detection in the Cloud via Side-Channel Analysis, SP'11.	Side-channels and the Cloud
September 16, 2021	Cache Missing for Fun and Profit, BSDCan 2005. Last-Level Cache Side-Channel Attacks are Practical, SP'15.	Side-channels and Caches
September 21, 2021	Scalable Architectural Support for Trusted Software, HPCA'10. Keystone: An Open Framework for Architecting Trusted Execution Environments, EuroSys'20. Titan: enabling a transparent silicon root of trust for Cloud, HotChips'18. (Optional) Intel SGX Explained, IACR ePrint 2016. (Optional)	Enclaves from Industry and Academia
September 23, 2021	Shielding Applications from an Untrusted Cloud with Haven, OSDI'14. SCONE: Secure Linux Containers with Intel SGX, OSDI'16". MI6: Secure Enclaves in a Speculative Out-of-Order Processor, MICRO'19. (Optional)	Systems based on Enclaves
September 28, 2021	Spectre Attacks: Exploiting Speculative Execution, SP'19. Meltdown: Reading Kernel Memory from User Space, USENIX Security'18. Foreshadow: Extracting the Keys to the Intel SGX Kingdom with Transient out-of-order Execution, USENIX Security'18. (Optional) A Systematic Evaluation of Transient Execution Attacks and Defenses, SP'19. (Optional)	Side-channels and Transient Execution
September 30, 2021	Packet Chasing: Spying on Network Packets over a Cache Side-Channel, ISCA'20. NetSpectre: Read Arbitrary Memory over Network, ESORICS'19.	Side-channels and Network
October 5, 2021	Controlled-Channel Attacks: Deterministic Side Channels for Untrusted Operating Systems, SP'15. MicroScope: Enabling Microarchitectural Replay Attacks, ISCA'19. Autarky: closing controlled channels with self-paging enclaves, EuroSys'20. (Optional) Jamais Vu: Thwarting Microarchitectural Replay Attacks, ASPLOS'21. (Optional)	Enclave Attacks and Defenses
October 7, 2021	Classifying Memory Access Patterns for Prefetching, ASPLOS'20. Learning-based Memory Allocation for C++ Server Workloads, ASPLOS'20.	Memory Management with Machine Learning
October 12, 2021	Accelerating two-dimensional page walks for virtualized systems, ASPLOS'08. Elastic Cuckoo Page Tables: Rethinking Virtual Memory Translation for Parallelism, ASPLOS'20. Efficient Virtual Memory for Big Memory Servers, ISCA'13. (Optional) COLT: Coalesced Large-reach TLBs, MICRO'12. (Optional) Coordinated and Efficient Huge Page Management with Ingens, OSDI'16. (Optional)	Virtual Memory and Virtualizaiton	Lab Assignment Released
October 14, 2021	University Holiday - No Class!
October 19, 2021	TVM: An Automated End-to-End Optimizing Compiler for Deep Learning, OSDI'16. TensorFlow: A System for Large-ScaleMachine Learning, OSDI'16. Carbon Emissions and Large Neural Network Training ", arXiv 2021. (Optional)	Machine Learning Systems	Industry Talk: Niket Agarwal - Facebook
October 21, 2021	Profiling a warehouse-scale computer, ISCA'15. AsmDB: Understanding and Mitigating Front-End Stalls in Warehouse-Scale Computers, ISCA'19.	Performance Profiling and Analysis
October 26, 2021	Xen and the art of virtualization, SOSP'03. Firecracker: Lightweight Virtualization for Serverless Applications, NSDI'20.	Virtual Machines	Lab Assignment Due
October 28, 2021	Container-based Operating System Virtualization: a Scalable, High-performance Alternative to Hypervisors, EuroSys'07. My VM is Lighter (and Safer) than your Container, SOSP'17. X-Containers: Breaking Down Barriers to Improve Performance and Isolation of Cloud-Native Containers, ASPLOS'19. (Optional) BabelFish: Fusing Address Translations for Containers, ISCA'20. (Optional)	Containers
November 2, 2021	Dune: Safe User-level Access to Privileged CPU Features, OSDI'12. Arrakis: The Operating System is the Control Plane, OSDI'14.	Operating Systems
November 4, 2021	Snap: a Microkernel Approach to Host Networking, SOSP'19. IX: A Protected Dataplane Operating System for High Throughput and Low Latency, OSDI'14.	Low Latency
November 9, 2021	Large-scale cluster management at Google with Borg, EuroSys'15. Twine: A Unified Cluster Management System for Shared Infrastructure, OSDI'20. Quasar: Resource-Efficient and QoS-Aware Cluster Management, ASPLOS'14.	Cluster Management	Industry Talk: Kenny Yu - Facebook Project Checkpoint
November 11, 2021	An Open-Source Benchmark Suite for Microservices and Their Hardware-Software Implications for Cloud & Edge Systems, ASPLOS'19. FIRM: An Intelligent Fine-grained Resource Management Framework for SLO-Oriented Microservices, OSDI'20.	Microservices
November 16, 2021	The Google File System, SOSP'03. Facebook's Tectonic Filesystem: Efficiency from Exascale, FAST'21.	Storage
November 18, 2021	Serverless in the Wild: Characterizing and Optimizingthe Serverless Workload at a Large Cloud Provider, ATC'20. Occupy the Cloud: Distributed Computing for the 99%, SoCC'17.	Serverless
November 23, 2021	Project Day - No Class!
November 25, 2021	Thanksgiving Holiday - No Class!
November 30, 2021	In-Datacenter Performance Analysis of a Tensor Processing Unit, ISCA'17. A Reconfigurable Fabric for Accelerating Large-scale Datacenter Services, ISCA'14. Ten Lessons From Three Generations Shaped Google's TPUv4i, ISCA'21. (Optional)	Accelerators
December 2, 2021	Project Presentations
December 7, 2021	Final report Due