HSD Plan

The following table presents the plan for this project. Note that the times are assumed to be the worst case. I would expect to complete each activity in less time since we have made progress in some of the them. We have approximately 16 weeks from today (May 27th) to complete the project. The progress in each of this activities is documented in hsd.ps.

Activity	Time estimate	Done?
State the problem precisely. We want to increase performance in servers by adding a new device, SSD.	1 meeting
Motivate the problem by making some experiments that prove our problem assumptions. So far, we have the results of the micro-benchmark.	1 week
Design a solution for the problem. Such design should take in consideration the results in the experiments of the motivation.	2 weeks
Develop the solution. (1) Design of the solution. Let us use Design by Contract. (2) Code the solution. (3) Debug and make some tests to check that the code is correct.	3 weeks
Experiments: (1) Design: What do we want to measure in the experiments? What system are we contrasting with? (2) Execute the experiments.	3 weeks
Paper: (1) Design the Layout of the paper. (2) Write the paper (think in figures carefully). (3) Send to reviewers.	2 weeks
Total	11 weeks