Networks, Systems, and Security Lab (NSS) Wiki
This wiki is for anything NSS-related. In particular, it's used to store information on the local network and compute resources for research students and faculty in the NSS, information on courses, and details about ongoing projects. Feel free to add any NSS-related information that you'd like.
If you are new to the lab, you should join the lab mailing list, which can be done by sending a message with "subscribe nss-lab" in the message body to majordomo@cs.ubc.ca. Also, there is a growing wealth of information available for lab members about local systems in the internal pages. To gain access to these, create yourself an account on the Wiki and ask someone else in the lab to add your account to the NSSGroup page.
Seminars
There are currently two active seminars in the NSS:
The Systems Seminar is on Fridays at 2pm and discusses a broad range of recent systems papers.
The Security Seminar is every other Friday at 11am and is focused specifically on security-related systems papers.
Project Status Meetings are on Fridays at 12:00pm and gives updates and future goals of current projects in the lab.
Projects
Here are pointers to a number of active projects in the NSS:
QStream - An advanced quality-adaptive video streaming system.
Remus - Transparent high availability at the virtualization layer.
Parallax - A cloud storage system for virtual machines.
Tralfamadore - Analyzing execution traces to understand and improve software.
Fine-Grain MPI - The scaling of MPI processes inside a single machine.
Current Graduate Courses
NSS Calendar
Check out the NSS Group Calendar for information about events and seminars related to NSS. Use this URL to add it to your own calendar.
Using this Wiki
Note: This wiki can be used for just about anything lab-related. In particular, it's intended to be a place that people can punch in notes about work in progress, projects, random ideas, and so on. As such, there is simple ACL support in moin if you'd like to avoid things you enter from being visible to the broader world. You can read about this at HelpOnAccessControlLists. The short version is that if you put a line that reads #acl NSSGroup:read,write at the top of your page, it will only be visible and editable by others in the lab.