CS 504 ST:

Reliability & Performability Modeling

(Boise Fall schedule and to get enrolled...)

Fall 2004

class period: Wednesdays 5:00pm - 8:00pm mdt
office hours: Wednesdays 3:00pm - 5:00pm mdt
Offered: 
  • in Boise live - conference room B (7th floor MK Plaza, beautiful one with windows on both sides:)
  • Note: sessions may be experimentally recorded and available for video streaming from this course site.

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    Course outline:
    CS504 ST: The course will cover reliability, survivability, fault-tolerance, and performability concepts and applications. Review of modeling the effects of reliability on performance, performability measures will be provided. Special consideration will be given to reliability & performability issues in software and hardware such as RAID systems.
    Course will be enhanced with case studies. Portion of the course will be organized in seminar fashion - students will be required to provide a review on selected pinnacle papers and research done in the area of performability. Course will end with future directions, such as computational technologies in reliability analysis. Prereq: perm. 

    Instructor:
    Milos Manic, Ph.D.
    University of Idaho
    CoEG Graduate Center at Boise
    New address: 322 East Front Street, Suite 242, Boise, ID 83702, USA.
    Old address (mail forwarded): 800 Park Blvd. Ste#200,     Boise, ID 83712.
    misko@uidaho.edu
    http://www.cs.uidaho.edu/~milosm/
    ph. 208-364-4939 (direct phone)
    fax: 208-364-3160 
    Outreach Program ph. (800) 824-2889
    Boise Center 866-264-7384 (toll free)

     

    Important links:
    • Schedule and getting enrolled:
      • check the schedule: click on: http://max.csrv.uidaho.edu/boise/schedule.htm, click on Fall 2004, and choose CS from left hand side menu.
      • for non-degree admissions, locally, contact Miki Kurosawa (mikik@uidaho.edu) at: 364-4050.
      • otherwise contact Graduate Admissions in Moscow at: 208-885-4001
      • If you are already enrolled, you should be able to do it through banner (http://max.csrv.uidaho.edu/).
    • UofI Registrar, General Catalog,
    • University of Idaho Course Time Schedule (specifics on course number, section, etc.)
    • University of Idaho Boise Center Course Time Schedule.
    • UofI Academic Calendars
    • EO online student forms (for registration, incompletes, change status, etc.): Go to the Engineering Outreach Online Forms System at: https://www.sites.uidaho.edu/eo/. There are links to each of the online forms at the bottom of the page. Click on the link to the appropriate form, enter the required information and submit the form. It will go to EO's registration coordinator, who will then process the request.
    • Announcement from Disability Support Services.



    Textbook:
    • Please note that though we will be using a number of books in this course, there is no single textbook required.
    • This is a link with books, references, and tutorials you may find useful.
    • Possible sources for textbook on internet: half.com, bestwebbuys.com, bookarea.com, dealtime.com, amazon, etc.


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    Downloads (passw. req.)
  • TBA
  • FAQs page



    • Class notes (passw. req.)



    Questions:

    SUBJECT LINE: Please, use [CS504] Family_name Question. I might be receiving over 100 emails a day. If you do not want yours to get lost, please always double check your subject line. If urgent response is needed, please use [CS504] URGENT Family_name Question.

    SIGNATURE: Please, sign your email with Family_name, First_name Middle_name, Stud_ID: xxx-xxxxx, course section (possible sections are: TBA). Some of the names are fairly similar, and this way we will avoid confusion and facilitate faster correspondence.

     

    Homework & exam assignments (passw. req.)

    Homework should be sent to misko@uidaho.edu with the subject: "[CS504] HW1 Family_name" for homework number 1, "[CS504] HW2 Family_name" for homework number 2, etc. Please follow the instructions on deliverables and report form, specified in Class Policy and at the end of each homework.

     

     

    Grades

    IMPORTANT: To be assigned a password, send me an email to misko@uidaho.edu with following information: full name, student ID, course section (possible sections are: TBA), email, and mailing address that you want to be used for sending graded assignments.
    NOTE: Please be aware that the correct mailing address needs to be updated on Banner too! Also, please note that starting July 1, 2003, the only official email account is your VandalMail account. Please note that I will not be replying to any other account such as yahoo, hotmail, etc.

    You can check your grades here. (passw. req.)

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