CS695 Topics in virtualization and cloud computing

Project ideas
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Note: These are ideas, some more detailed and some exploratory.
You will need to spend considerable time to think through them,
chalk out a scope and a plan, sequence the steps towards eventual
goals, etc.

1. Your own million-dollar idea.

2. Your own billion-dollar idea.

3. Hypercall/VMCall implementations as part of a tool to perform
some "useful" operations/statistics etc.

4. Per-VM page cache partitioning.

5. tmem (transcendent memory) based cache implementation for VMs.
https://lwn.net/Articles/454795/
https://oss.oracle.com/projects/tmem/dist/documentation/papers/tmemLS09.pdf

6. tmem-based cache implementation and partitioning policies for 
cgroup end-points.
https://lwn.net/Articles/454795/
https://oss.oracle.com/projects/tmem/dist/documentation/papers/tmemLS09.pdf

7. Hypervisor managed SSD caching for VMs to improve IO performance.
https://www.ibm.com/developerworks/library/l-virtio/index.html

8. Implementing a virtio frontend and backend for custom operations
on stored/transferred data. Operations---compression, encryption etc.
To use a virtio-based data channel and a control channel.

9. Performance benchmarking of virtual machine migration.

10. A toolkit for operations based on VM image introspection.

11. Software-based multiplexing of GPU for GPU-as-a-service.

12. Persistent memory emulation to implement (simplified) NV-Heaps.
https://dl.acm.org/citation.cfm?id=1950380

13. Persistent memory emulation to implement (simplified) Mnemosyne.
https://research.cs.wisc.edu/sonar/projects/mnemosyne/

14. UDP-based client-server implementation and comparison of
scalability on multi-core setups for netmap based network stack
and raw sockets based default kernel stack.

15. Implementing a software framework for serverless/Function-as-a-service
computing model.