For the benefit of students who wish to preview the material to be covered in future weeks, links to last year's lecture notes and paper questions appear below. This year's questions will be posted at least two days before they are due, and updated lecture notes will be posted after each lecture.
| Monday | Tuesday | Wednesday | Thursday | Friday |
| 1 feb Reg Day |
2 feb LEC 1: Intro: Distributed systems / Lab Overview Preparation: Skim Frangipani Assignment: Lab 1: Lock Server |
3 feb | 4 feb LEC 2: Infrastructure: Implementing RPCs Preparation: Read Implementing Remote Procedure Calls (Question) |
5 feb |
| 8 feb | 9 feb LEC 3: Infrastructure: Programming with threads Preparation: Read Threads in C# (Question) |
10 feb | 11 feb LEC 4: Distributed programming: Remote Objects Preparation: Read Java Remote Method Invocation (Question) |
12 feb Due: Lab 1 Assignment: Lab 2: Basic File Server |
| 15 feb
President's Day |
16 feb
Monday schedule Assignment: Lab 3: Reading, Writing, and Sharing Files Lab 4: MKDIR, REMOVE, and Locking |
17 feb | 18 feb LEC 5: Distributed programming: MapReduce and Dryad Preparation: Read DryadLINQ paper (Question) |
19 feb Due: Lab 2 |
| 22 feb | 23 feb LEC 6: Consistency: Sequential consistency Preparation: Read Shared Virtual Memory (Question) |
24 feb | 25 feb LEC 7: Consistency: Relaxed consistency Preparation: Read TreadMarks (Question) |
26 feb Due: Lab 3 and 4 Assignment: Lab 5: Caching Lock Server |
| 1 mar | 2 mar LEC 8: Consistency: Timestamps and version vectors Preparation: Read Tra (Question) |
3 mar | 4 mar LEC 9: Eventual Consistency Preparation: Read Bayou (Question) |
5 mar ADD DATE |
| 8 mar | 9 mar LEC 10: Fault Tolerance: Crash recovery and logging Preparation: Read Cedar (Question) |
10 mar | 11 mar LEC 11: Fault Tolerance: Two-phase commit Preparation: Read Argus (Question) |
12 mar Due: Lab 5 Assignment: Lab 6: Caching Extent Server + Consistency |
| 15 mar | 16 mar QUIZ 1: Mid-term quiz during lecture time open book and notes scope: Lectures 1–10 |
17 mar | 18 mar LEC 12: Fault Tolerance: Replicated state machines Preparation: Read Hypervisor (Question) |
19 mar Due: Lab 6 Assignment: Lab 7: Paxos |
| 22 mar – 26 mar SPRING VACATION |
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| 29 mar | 30 mar LEC 13: Fault Tolerance: Consensus (Slides) Preparation: Read Paxos (Question) |
31 mar | 1 apr LEC 14: Case Studies: Frangipani Preparation: Read Frangipani (Question) |
2 apr |
| 5 apr | 6 apr
LEC 15: Peer-to-peer Systems: Finding data Preparation: Read Chord (Question) |
7 apr |
8 apr LEC 16: Peer-to-peer Systems: Content Distribution Networks Preparation: Read Coral (Question) |
9 apr Due: Lab 7 Assignment: Lab 8: Replicated State Machine |
| 12 apr |
13 apr LEC 17: Security: Data integrity and confidentiality Preparation: Read Shark (Question) |
14 apr | 15 apr LEC 18: Security: Untrusted servers Preparation: Read SUNDR (Question) |
16 apr |
| 19 apr Patriots Day |
20 apr Patriots Day |
21 apr |
22 apr DROP DATE No lecture — Hacking day |
23 apr Assignment: Lab 9: Project Due: Lab 8 |
| 26 apr | 27 apr LEC 19: Security: Byzantine Fault Tolerance Preparation: Read Practical BFT (Question) Due: Project teams and description |
28 apr | 29 apr LEC 20: Case Studies: Anonymous routing Preparation: Read TOR Design (Question) |
30 apr |
| 3 may | 4 may LEC 21: Case Studies: Botnets Preparation: Read Spamalytics (Question) |
5 may | 6 may No lecture — Hacking day |
7 may Due: Lab 9 project writeup |
| 10 may |
11 may LEC 22: Case Studies: Relaxed Consistency Preparation: Read PNUTS (Question) |
12 may Due: Final day for project demo meetings |
13 may Last day of classes Demo Day Preparation: Read AnalogicFS experience paper (Question) |
14 may |
| 17 may – 21 may Final Exam Period: QUIZ 2: Tuesday, May 18, 1:30PM - 4:30PM, 32-144 |
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