Monday	Tuesday	Wednesday	Thursday	Friday
4 feb Reg Day	5 feb LEC 1: Introduction handout	6 feb	7 feb LEC 2: Infrastructure: RPC and threads handout more Preparation: Take the tour of Go. (Question)	8 feb
11 feb Due: Lab 1	12 feb LEC 3: Fault tolerance; primary/backup replication Preparation: Read Hypervisor (Question)	13 feb	14 feb LEC 4: More Primary/Backup Preparation: Read Flat Datacenter Storage (Question)	15 feb Due: Lab 2, Part A
18 feb President's day	19 feb Monday Schedule	20 feb	21 feb LEC 5: Fault Tolerance: Paxos handout Preparation: Read Paxos (Question)	22 feb Due: Lab 2, Part B
25 feb	26 feb LEC 6: Case Studies: Replicated File System Preparation: Read Harp (Question)	27 feb	28 feb LEC 7: Replication in Wide Area File Systems (Question) Preparation: Read Spanner	1 mar Due: Lab 3, Part A
4 mar	5 mar LEC 8: Security: Untrusted servers Preparation: Read SUNDR (Question)	6 mar	7 mar LEC 9: Consistency: Sequential consistency Preparation: Read Shared Virtual Memory (Question)	8 mar ADD DATE
11 mar	12 mar LEC 10: Consistency: Relaxed consistency Preparation: Read TreadMarks (Question)	13 mar Assignment: Project	14 mar LEC 11: Version Vectors; File Synchronization Preparation: Read Ficus (Question)	15 mar Due: Lab 3, Part B
18 mar	19 mar LEC 12: Eventual Consistency Preparation: Read Bayou (Question)	20 mar	21 mar QUIZ 1: Mid-term quiz during lecture time in room 2-190 open book and notes scope: Lectures 1–11	22 mar
25 mar – 29 mar SPRING VACATION
1 apr	2 apr LEC 13: Case Studies: Relaxed Consistency Preparation: Read PNUTS (Question)	3 apr	4 apr LEC 14: Peer-to-peer Systems: Dynamo Preparation: Read Dynamo (Question)	5 apr Due: Project team and proposal
8 apr	9 apr Project Meeting #1	10 apr	11 apr LEC 15: Fault Tolerance: Two-phase commit Preparation: Read Argus (Question)	12 apr Due: Lab 4
15 apr Patriots Day	16 apr Patriots Day	17 apr	18 apr LEC 16: Distributed Operating Systems Preparation: Read Plan 9 (Question)	19 apr
22 apr	23 apr LEC 17: Big Computing: MapReduce Preparation: Read MapReduce (Question)	24 apr	25 apr DROP DATE No lecture — Hacking day	26 apr
29 apr	30 apr No lecture — Hacking day	1 may	2 may Project Meeting #2	3 may
6 may	7 may LEC 18: Bitcoin Preparation: Read Bitcoin (Question)	8 may	9 may LEC 19: Memcached Preparation: Read Memcached (Question)	10 may Due: Project write-up.
13 may	14 may Project Meeting #3	15 may	16 may Last day of classes Demo Day from 12:30 to 3:00 Preparation: Read AnalogicFS experience paper (Question)	17 may
20 may – 24 may Final Exam Period 6.824 Final: Monday May 20 1:30 to 3:30 at Johnson Ice Rink