COMP 7970
Storage Systems

Fall 2007

MWF 9:00-9:50am, 102 Dunstan Hall

   

Instructor: Dr. Xiao Qin

109 Dunstan Hall, 844-6327

Office hours: Monday 10:00-12:00am 

Projects

The primary goal of projects in this class is to address an intriguing and non-trivial issue of storage systems. Your project can be conducted in various forms such as a research or survey paper. Although your project may be either individual or group efforts, it is worth noting that your project has to be a significant research study. A project is intended to synergize with a student's research interests by addressing an aspect of the student's current research work or allowing the student to do some preliminary investigation of a master thesis or Ph.D.  topic. The project aims at providing a great opportunity to the student to investigate an issue to which his may not otherwise devote efforts and time. 

Project Proposals

You must submit a project proposal and have it approved. The process is described below.

1.      Email me a one paragraphs or two, describing your proposed project. (Due Monday, Aug. 27 at 5:30pm)

2.      If the proposal is approved, go to step 3. Otherwise, go back to step 1.

3.      Write and submit a short proposal (about 2-4 pages) that provides detailed information pertinent to your project. (Due Monday, Sept. 10 at 9:00am)

4.      Conduct your research project.

5.      Write a technical report describing the project and the experimental results.

Both the proposal and the final paper must be formatted  in the standard in 2-column IEEE proceedings format. 

 

Please download instructions, a sample report (DOC format), and a sample manuscript (PDF format).

            Please download the Guide for Writing Project Proposals here. 

Projects Ideas

You are encouraged to come up with your own project ideas. Some sample ideas are given as follows:

·         Energy-efficient storage systems.

·         Performance modeling and evaluation of storage systems.

·         Architecture support for storage systems.

·         Security mechanisms for storage systems.

·         Fault-tolerant and dependable storage systems.

·         Resource management for data grids

·         I/O-aware load balancing

·         Adaptive prefetching

·         Data placement

Research Meetings (8/22/2007) 

Jonathan and Derek

9:00-9:20

Arunkumar, Santosh, and Taha

9:20-9:40

Lacey

9:40-10:00

Cong

10:00-10:20

Chengjun

10:20-10:40