Submit a 1-2 page proposal and present your topic in class. Present your progress in class. Project writeups should be modeled after good quality conference papers. Most distributed file systems today are file server based. The file server often becomes the bottleneck and research today is focussing on distributed file systems without file-servers.
Security handling on such systems is another area of research.
The effect of Fiber Channel and other high-speed networks on the way data is currently stored and accessed. As the WWW continues to explode in size caching becomes increasingly important. Caching of the Web documents differs from traditional caching in some very important way. For example sizes of Web objects to be cached can vary considerably. This project involves doing a comparative study of the proposed caching policies for the web and possibly proposing a new caching policy.