RAMCloud Presentations

This page contains links to the slides for recent RAMCloud presentations.

Please upload PDF versions of your slides as well whenever adding presentations to this list.

• February 2017 Platform Lab review
  • Review introduction (John) pptx pdf
  • Slides from granular computing panel (John) pptx pdf
  • NanoLog: A Nanosecond Scale Logging System (Stephen) pdf
• Designing for Understandability: the Raft Consensus Algorithm (August 2016) pptx pdf
• RAMCloud and the Low Latency Datacenter (John's slides from 2015): pptx pdf
• June 2016 Platform lab retreat
  • Retreat Introduction (John) pptx pdf
  • Making RAMCloud Writes Even Faster (Seo Jin) pdf
  • Scalable Low Latency Indexes for a Key-Value Store (Ankita) pdf
• Feb 2016 Platform Lab winter review
  • Introduction (John) pptx pdf
  • Core-Aware Scheduling (Henry) pdf
• SOSP 2015 "Implementing Linearizability at Large Scale and Low Latency" pptx pdf
• May 2015 SEDCL/Platform Lab retreat
  • Retreat Introduction (John): pptx pdf
  • Low-latency datacenter (John): pptx pdf
  • Summary of breakout session on low-latency datacenter (John): pptx pdf
  • Behnam's Poster on Low latency transport mechanism for datacenter networks: pdf
  • Behnam's talk on Low latency transport mechanism for datacenter networks: pdf
  • Seo Jin's talk on Performance of Transactions in RAMCloud: pdf
  • Satoshi's Poster on RACloud Latency over SRIOV/KVM on Xeon DPDK: pdf
  • Bob's Poster on RAMCloud Market Application Analysis: pptx pdf
• New Transport Mechanism (RAMCloud Friday Meetings, May 2015) : pdf
• RAMCloud Tutorial (NVM Workshop, March 1, 2015): pptx pdf
• Jan 2015 SEDCL Forum
  • Introducing the Platform Lab (John): pptx pdf
  • RAMCloud Overview and Update (John): pptx pdf
  • Transactions on RAMCloud (Collin, Seo Jin): pdf
  • RAMCloud in a Box (Satoshi): pdf
  • RAMCloud Latency: Measurement and Optimization (Henry): pdf
  • Experiences with RAMCloud Applications (John): pptx pdf
  • RAMCloud: Ideal Applications & Characteristics (Bob): pdf
  • Update on SLIK (Ankita): pdf
  • SolarFlare Driver (Behnam): pdf
• June 2014 retreat
  • Ankita's talk on SLIK with emphasis on initial performance measurements: pdf
  • SLIK team (Ankita/Arjun/Ashish/Zhihao) poster: "Performance measurements for SLIK": pdf
  • John's talk: "RAMCloud Overview and Update" pptx pdf
  • Satoshi's poster: "RAMCloud on an Atom Server" pdf
  • Seojin's talk: "Infrastructure for Linearizable RPCs in RAMCloud" pdf
  • Behnam's talk: "SolarFlare 10GigE Driver For RAMCloud" pdf
  • Henry's talk: RAMCloud Latency: Early Analysis Presentation pdf
• Diego's defense (May 2014) pptx pdf
• RAMCloud overview/fast crash recovery talk at Big Data Budapest meetup (Diego; April 2014) pptx pdf
• "Log-Structured Memory for DRAM-Based Storage (presentation at FAST 2014) pptx pdf video
• Jan 2014 SEDCL Forum
  • John's talk: "RAMCloud 1.0": pptx pdf
  • Ankita's talk: "Secondary Indexing in RAMCloud": pdf
• Talk on Raft leader election performance/availability/liveness at RAMCloud lunch (December 2013) pdf
• Talk on Raft at RICON West 2013 pptx pdf
• Steve's defense pptx pdf
• Talk on RAMCloud overview, recovery, and Raft at DEVIEW (October 2013) pptx pdf
• Talk on log-structured memory at C-FAR Annual Review (October 2013) pptx  pdf
  • Poster ppt pdf
  • Poster pitch pptx
• Diego's Thesis Proposal (Consensus; June 2013) pdf
• June 2013 retreat
  • Ankita on Data model design: poster pdf
  • Ankita on Experiences with Coordinator: poster pdf
  • John's talk: "RAMCloud Overview and Update" pdfpptx
  • Diego's talk: "Raft User Study" pdf
  • Ryan's talk: "Toward Common Patterns for Distributed, Concurrent, Fault-Tolerant Code" pdfpptx
• Ryan's Defense: pdf pptx
• Raft and Paxos lectures from the Raft user study
• Raft poster at Computer Forum Annual Meeting (Diego, April 2013) svg pdf
• RAMCloud talk, HPC Advisory Council Stanford Conference (Ankita, February 2013) pdf pptx
• "What We Have Learned from RAMCloud" (talk at SEDCL Forum January 2013) ppt pdf
• Raft talk, SEDCL Forum January 2013 pdf
• A collection of all of John Ousterhout's RAMCloud slides (from all talks since the beginning of the project, as of October 2012) ppt  pdf
• "What We Have Learned from RAMCloud" (talk at MuSyC/GSRC final review, October 2012) ppt pdf
• June 2012 retreat
  • Ankita on coordinator: poster pdf, poster (slightly improved version) pdf
  • Asaf on copysets: poster pdf, talk ...
  • Diego on Paxos: poster pdf, talk pdf
  • Elliott on Table Enumeration: poster pdf keynote ppt, talk pdf keynote ppt
  • John on status: talk pdf ppt
  • Steve on cleaning: poster ..., talk ...
  • Alex on RDMA poster pdf, talk pdf
• Steve's Thesis Proposal (Memory/Object Management) pdf pptx
• Ryan's Thesis Proposal (Durability & Crash Recovery) pdf pptx
• SEDCL Feb '12 pdf keynote ppt
• Model checking (RAMCloud general meeting) pdf
• Google PhD Summit Fast Crash Recovery Poster svg pdf
• MuSyc/GSRC Fast Crash Recovery Talk (TODO: ouster)
• MuSyc/GSRC Fast Crash Recovery Poster svg pdf
• SOSP 2011 Fast Crash Recovery Talk pdf pptx
• June 2011 retreat
  • RAMCloud overview and status
  • Nandu - System performance measurements
  • Ryan/Diego - Fast recovery pdf pptx
  • Diego - RPC transports pdf
  • Ankita - MultiRead operations pdf
  • Steve - Tablet Profiling
• Poster (sources) at the Stanford Computer Forum Annual Meeting (Apr. 2011)
• RAMCloud overview (Mar. 2011) pdf
• Poster at USENIX FAST 2011 (PDF format) (Feb. 2011)
• Overview of recovery and ideas for performance metrics (PDF format) (Jan. 2011)
• Crash probabilities presentation (Asaf - Nov. 2010)
• Several talks at the Design Review (Apr. 2010)
• Poster (sources) at the Stanford Computer Forum Annual Meeting (Apr. 2010)
• RAMCloud overview (Feb. 2010)