Distributed Systems: Principles and Paradigms
Andrew S. Tanenbaum & Maarten Van Steen
Published by Pearson, ISBN 0-13-239227-5, 2nd edition.
The lecture notes will be available after each lecture to assist with studying -- please read them as they often contain material that goes beyond just what we covered in lecture! For supplemental reading in particular areas, you may find one of the following texts, available from the library, helpful:
Your final grade for the course will be based on the following weights for the components of the course. The weights of the individual projects will vary slightly by the difficulty of the project:
The midterms will be in-class, closed-book exams. While they may cover all material to that point in the class, their content will emphasize the material covered since the previous exam. The final exam will be a closed-book exam, covering material from the whole semester, with slight emphasis on material covered since the last midterm.
For more information about the project component, see the assignments page.
The homework will combine both textbook-like questions as well as hands-on experimental exercises. There will be three homework assignments.
Because of the importance of understanding both the theoretical and hands-on elements of systems, students must pass all three components of the course (homeworks, exams, and the projects) in order to receive a passing grade for the course. This does not affect the actual letter grade assignment unless one of the components is not completed to a passing standard.
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| Date | Instructor | Topics | Notes | Readings |
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| Tue 08/28 | dga | Introduction [pdf] [key] |
1.1, 1.2 | |
| Thu 08/30 | dga | Communication 1, the Internet in a Day, day 1 [pdf] [key] |
Chapter 2.1 | |
| Tue 09/04 | dga | Communication 2, the Internet in a Day, day 2 [pdf] [key] |
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| Thu 09/06 | bryant | Go! [pdf] [txt] |
Code available in Class 04 code directory. | |
| Tue 09/11 | bryant | Consistency - Classical synchronization + Go-style synchronization [pdf] [txt] |
Code available in Class 05 code directory. See also Remzi's cond vars lecture notes. | Kesden concurrency notes |
| Thu 09/13 | dga | Distributed Filesystems [pdf] [key] |
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| Tue 09/18 | bryant | Remote Procedure Calls [pdf] [txt] |
Code available in Class 07 code directory. | Tannenbaum 4.1-4.2 |
| Thu 09/20 | dga | Distributed Filesystems 2 - AFS, Coda, callbacks [pdf] [key] |
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| Tue 09/25 | bryant | Time and Synchronization [pdf] [ppt] |
Tannenbaum 6.1-6.2 | |
| Thu 09/27 | bryant | Distributed Mutual Exclusion [pdf] [txt] |
Tannenbaum 6.3 | |
| Tue 10/02 | dga | Fault Tolerance 1 - Detecting and Correcting Local Faults [pdf] [key] |
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| Thu 10/04 | dga | RAID [pdf] |
See alzo the book chapter from the Wisconsin book. | |
| Tue 10/09 | bryant | Concurrency Control [pdf] [txt] |
Tannenbaum 8.5 | |
| Thu 10/11 | bryant | Logging and Crash Recovery [pdf] [txt] |
Tannenbaum 8.6 | |
| Tue 10/16 | MIDTERM EXAM |
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| Thu 10/18 | dga | Consistent hashing and name-by-hash [pdf] [key] |
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| Tue 10/23 | dga | Distributed Replication [pdf] [key] |
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| Thu 10/25 | dga | Distributed Replication 2 |
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| Tue 10/30 | bryant | Data-Intensive Computing and MapReduce/Hadoop [pdf] |
For more info, see the MapReduce paper, it's pretty readable. You might want to examine the Hadoop code for Word Count and Matrix multiplication. | |
| Thu 11/01 | bryant | Distributed Filesystems for MapReduce / HDFS [pdf] [txt] |
Read the Google Filesystem. Optional GFS follow-up interview. | |
| Tue 11/06 | bryant | DNS and Content Delivery Networks [pdf] |
Cheat sheet on using and interpreting dig | Tannenbaum 5.3.3-5.3.4 |
| Thu 11/08 | dga | Peer-to-Peer [pdf] |
Tannenbaum 5.2.3 | |
| Tue 11/13 | Guest/Kozuch | Virtual Machines [pdf] [txt] |
Tannenbaum 3.2 | |
| Thu 11/15 | dga | Byzantine Fault Tolerance [pdf] [key] |
See also an online lecture about BFT by Barbara Liskov | |
| Tue 11/20 | Security Protocols [pdf] [txt] |
See wikipedia entry for needham-schroeder and wikipedia entry for Diffie-Hellman. | Tannenbaum 9.1-9.2, 9.4.1 | |
| Thu 11/22 | No Class, Thanksgiving Break |
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| Tue 11/27 | Case Study - Anonymous Routing and TOR |
tor paper and one tor presentation. | ||
| Thu 11/29 | dga | Causally Consistent Wide-Area Replication (TBD) |
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| Tue 12/04 | No class - meet with course staff |
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| Thu 12/06 | TAs | Course Review and Project Demos |
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| Tue 12/11 | FINAL EXAM, 1-4pm, GHC4401 |
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