Reading Review for Class 11
This class’s readings are:
Optional:
Your review should include both a summary of these papers, which
discusses
- the problem the paper addresses
- the paper’s solution
- the evidence the paper provides that the solution was
correct. Remember to keep in mind the historical context the
papers discuss.
Your review should also discuss, after the summary:
- whether the problem the paper solved is an important
one
- whether the solution was a good one
- whether the paper was fun or enjoyable to read.
- what questions you have about the paper, or which parts of the paper
(if any) you found hard to understand.
You should answer the above questions in about one sentence each. The
remainder of your review (about the below questions) should be about a
page (~500 words) long.
Finally, for this week’s papers, please reflect on the following
questions:
- Figure 3 shows an example of a fat-tree topology. However, Figure 3
doesn’t show how this network could be connected to the outside world.
Describe a modification to the network shown in Figure 3 that would
enable external connectivity.
- One of the design choices this paper makes is to split traffic
amongst multiple paths. Assume you had two choices to connect two
computers: you could connect them with a single 100 Gbit/s link, or
connect them with 10 x 10 Gbit/s links. Which option would you prefer
(or does it not matter), and why? Include both technical and economic
reasoning.