Seyyedmohammad Sadrosadati: Katalogdaten im Herbstsemester 2022

NameHerr Dr. Seyyedmohammad Sadrosadati
Adresse
Professur für Informatik
ETH Zürich, ETZ F 76
Gloriastrasse 35
8092 Zürich
SWITZERLAND
E-Mailmohammad.sadrosadati@safari.ethz.ch
DepartementInformationstechnologie und Elektrotechnik
BeziehungDozent

NummerTitelECTSUmfangDozierende
227-0085-44LProjekte & Seminare: Understanding and Designing Modern SSDs (Solid-State Drives) Belegung eingeschränkt - Details anzeigen
Nur für Elektrotechnik und Informationstechnologie BSc.

Die Lerneinheit kann nur einmal belegt werden. Eine wiederholte Belegung in einem späteren Semester ist nicht anrechenbar.
3 KP3PS. Sadrosadati
KurzbeschreibungDer Bereich Praktika, Projekte, Seminare umfasst Lehrveranstaltungen in unterschiedlichen Formaten zum Erwerb von praktischen Kenntnissen und Fertigkeiten. Ausserdem soll selbstständiges Experimentieren und Gestalten gefördert, exploratives Lernen ermöglicht und die Methodik von Projektarbeiten vermittelt werden.
LernzielNAND flash memory is the de facto standard for architecting a storage device in modern computing systems. As modern computing systems process a large amount of data at an unprecedented scale, a storage device needs to meet high requirements on storage capacity and I/O performance. A NAND flash-based solid-state drive (SSD) can provide orders-of-magnitude higher I/O performance compared to traditional hard-disk drives (HDDs), with a much lower cost-per bit value over SSDs based on emerging non-volatile memory (NVM) technologies.

NAND flash memory has several unique characteristics, such as the erase-before write property (i.e., a flash cell needs to be first erased before programming it), limited lifetime (i.e., a cell cannot reliably store data after experiencing a certain number of program/erase (P/E) cycles), and large operation units (e.g., modern NAND flash memory typically reads/writes data in a page (e.g., 16 KiB) granularity). To achieve high performance and large capacity of the storage system while hiding the unique characteristics of NAND flash memory, it is critical to design efficient SSD firmware, commonly called Flash-Translation Layer (FTL). An FTL is responsible for many critical management tasks, such as address translation, garbage collection, wear leveling, and I/O scheduling, which significantly affect the performance, reliability, and lifetime of the SSD.

In this course, we will cover how a modern NAND flash-based SSD is organized and operates, from the basics of underlying NAND flash devices and various SSD-management tasks at the FTL level. We will also examine other emerging memory technologies for building SSDs, such as Phase Change Memory, 3D XPoint (e.g., Intel Optane SSD) and more.

You will help build a practical SSD simulator by refactoring MQSim, a state-of-the-art simulator for high-end SSDs, to support advanced features of modern NAND flash chips and essential SSD-management tasks. This will allow you to have the chance to obtain a comprehensive background in modern storage systems and research experience on system optimization with rigorous evaluation.

The course is conducted in English.

The course has two main parts:
Weekly lectures on modern NAND flash-based SSDs
Hands-on project to refactor MQSim

Course website: https://safari.ethz.ch/projects_and_seminars/
SkriptSee: https://safari.ethz.ch/projects_and_seminars/
LiteraturLearning Materials
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Inside NAND Flash Memories: https://search.library.ethz.ch/permalink/f/823s1o/ELENDING603606

Inside Solid State Drives (SSDs):
https://search.library.ethz.ch/permalink/f/823s1o/ELENDING1030264

MQSim, an open-source multi-queue SSD simulator

Source code: https://github.com/CMU-SAFARI/MQSim

Paper: https://people.inf.ethz.ch/omutlu/pub/MQSim-SSD-simulation-framework_fast18.pdf

An example of how to improve SSD performance by optimizing the I/O scheduling policy of the FTL: https://people.inf.ethz.ch/omutlu/pub/FLIN-fair-and-high-performance-NVMe-SSD-scheduling_isca18.pdf

Examples of how to improve SSD reliability by exploiting physical characteristics of modern NAND flash memory:
https://people.inf.ethz.ch/omutlu/pub/3D-NAND-flash-lifetime-early-retention-loss-and-process-variation_sigmetrics18_pomacs18-twocolumn.pdf
https://people.inf.ethz.ch/omutlu/pub/heatwatch-3D-nand-errors-and-self-recovery_hpca18.pdf
https://arxiv.org/pdf/1706.08642.pdf

Examples of how to improve the security and privacy of stored data in SSDs: https://people.inf.ethz.ch/omutlu/pub/evanesco-secure-data-sanitization-for-flash-memory_asplos20.pdf
https://people.inf.ethz.ch/omutlu/pub/flash-memory-programming-vulnerabilities_hpca17.pdf
Voraussetzungen / BesonderesPrerequisites of the course:
- No prior knowledge of NAND flash-based storage systems is required.
- Digital Design and Computer Architecture (or equivalent course)
- Good knowledge of C/C++ programming language is required.
- Interest in system optimizations