Winter 2009 SYA810 Weekly Schedule

Week 1 (January 12) - Release Planning & Roadmap

• Course overview and plan
  • Project Release schedule
    • 7 releases, every 2 weeks
    • Developing a Release Roadmap

Week 2 (January 19) - Advanced storage I: RAID and LVM-on-RAID

(Classes cancelled due to instructor illness)

ToDo:

• Create a script to test block device performance. This script will later be used to test the performance of various RAID configurations. It can read or write, access either the block device or individual files, and deal with many small reads/writes or a smaller number of large read/writes. It may be written in any language.
• Post the scripts here: Winter 2009 SYA810 Block Device Benchmark Scripts by Monday, Jan 26.

Week 3 (January 26) - Release 0.4

ToDo:

• Complete the SYA810 RAID Benchmarking Lab.
• Release 0.4 of your project, by Friday Jan 30, 11:59 pm.

Week 5 (February 9) - Release 0.5

ToDo:

• Complete your 0.5 release.
• Schedule a Project Demo

Remember:

• Quiz on Tuesday during the SYA810 Lab Period (3:20-5:00 pm)