6.894 Schedule - Fall 2000

6.894 - Fall 2000


6.894 is scheduled TR 1-2:30 in 36-156

VI class quiz schedule

Frans
Robert
Jinyang
Week of
Sunday
Tuesday
Lecture
Thursday
Lecture
9/3
-
9/9
  L1:Introduction and lab
course structure, client/server architecture, asynchronous programming
Lab handouts: asynchronous multifinger
9/10
-
9/16
L2: Scheduler activations
threads, processes, kernels
Read: Scheduler Activations
L3: Synchronization
coordination, locks, semaphores
Read: Bershad92
Lab handouts: TCP proxy
Due: asynchronous multifinger
9/17
-
9/23
L4: Recitation
Asynchronous programming, Web, URLs, HTTP
Lab handouts: Web proxy
L5: Scheduling
Lottery Scheduling
9/24
-
9/30
L6: Address spaces and kernel
LRPC, L4, IPC
Read:
L7: Software Fault Isolation
Address spaces
Read: software fault isolation
Due: TCP proxy
10/1
-
10/7
L8: OS organization
Batch, Time sharing, virtual machine
Read: Disco
L9: Kernel
kernel organization, extensibility and fault isolation
Read: Exokernel and Spin
10/8
-
10/14
Columbus Day
vacation! vacation! vacation!
L10: Integrated buffer and cache management
managing physical memory
Read:
Due: Web proxy
10/15
-
10/21
L11: Single image and distributed OS
Read:
L12: File systems
filesystem layout and recovery
Read: Netapp
Project handout:
10/22
-
10/28
Hacking Day! No classes!
L13: File systems
cache consistency
Read: Sprite
L14: Replicated data access
repication, time stamps, optimistic concurrency control
Read:Bayou(SOSP97)
Due: project proposal
10/29
-
11/4
mid-term L15: Security
analysis of SSL3.0, attacks and encryption
Read:
11/5
-
11/11
L16: authorization
end-to-end authorization
Read:TAOS
L17: key management
Read: SFS
11/12
-
11/18
L18: Protocols and DoS
Read:Nym.alias.net
L19: peer-to-peer systems
Read: FreeNet
11/19
-
11/25
L20: DoS
Read: IP traceback
Thanksgiving Vacation
11/26
-
12/3
L21: Network objects
Read: Birrell's NO paper
L22: Server selection
Internet performance
Read: Web caching
12/3
-
12/9
L23: Server clusters
logs and transactions
Read: Porcupine
L24: Scalable Internet Servers
distributed transactions
Read:
12/10-
12/16
L25: Byzantine failures
Read: Practical Byzantine fault tolerance
Due: projects
end of class
12/17-
12/23
exam week
exam week


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