R02 ACS MPhil - Network Architectures
Second Essay (due Nov 29)

Cloud/Data Center Architectures

Discuss new emergent forms of Data Centers, looking at the whole stack from
software architecture (e.g.  MapReduce, Naiad) down to Transport (e.g. Data Center TCP) 
and topology (e.g. CamCube).

Starting from the following three papers, map out how you think protocol
architectures will evolve and specialise for the data center environment.

MapReduce
http://research.google.com/archive/mapreduce.html
Naiad
http://research.microsoft.com/en-us/projects/naiad/

Data Center TCP
http://dl.acm.org/citation.cfm?id=1851192

Camcube -  Symbiotic Routing in Future Data Centers<
ttp://research.microsoft.com/pubs/152966/sigcomm10-camcube.pdf

Useful background
http://www.cs.washington.edu/homes/arvind/papers/datacenter_comparison.pdf
A Cost Comparison of Data Center Network Architectures</a>
and
Hadoop
http://hadoop.apache.org/

Submissions need be no more than 2-4 pages of notes
Remember to cite any sources you use!