Week 1

• Tuesday, August 27, 2013 (Intro and Administrivia)
• Thursday, August 29, 2013 (Introduction to Distributed Systems, Representing Work, Making Work Portable and the Challenges of Files and Communication)

Week 2

• Tuesday, September 3, 2013 (Network Communication: The Protocol Stack)
• Thursday, September 5, 2013 (Higher Level Communication Abstractions: RPC and RMI)

Week 3

• Tuesday, September 10, 2013 (Mutual Exclusion, Distributed Mutual Exclusion)
• Thursday, September 12, 2013 (Coordinator Election)

Week 4

• Tuesday, September 17, 2013 (Physical time and Synchronization, Logical Time)
• Thursday, September 19, 2013 (CAP, ACID, BASE, Transactions, 2PC/Multicast, 2PL)

Week 5

• Tuesday, September 24, 2013 (Replication and Quorums)
• Thursday, September 26, 2013 ("Impossibility of Agreement": Two Armies, Byzantine Generals)

Week 6

• Tuesday, October 1, 2013 (Recovery: Logging and Checkpointing)
• Thursday, October 3, 2013 (Availability and Recovery Discussion: Putting Together The Pieces)

Week 7

• Tuesday, October 8, 2013 (Models for Distributed Problem Solving) [ppt] / [pdf]
• Thursday, October 10, 2013 (Introduction to Data-Intensive Scalable Computing (DISC) and Map-Reduce)

Week 8

• Tuesday, October 15, 2013 (Exam Review)
• Tuesday, October 17, 2013 (Midterm Exam)

Week 9

• Tuesday, October 1, 2013 (Exam Post-Mortem)
• Thursday, October 3, 2013 (More Map-Reduce)

Week 10

• Tuesday, October 29, 2013 (Problem Solving with Map-Reduce) [ppt] / [pdf]
• Thursday, October 31, 2013 (Problem Solving with Map-Reduce, cont. ) [ppt] / [pdf]

Week 11

• Tuesday, November 5, 2013 (Distributed Computing: Allocation, Migration, PVM, Torque, MPI, OpenMP, Condor)
• Thursday, November 7, 2013 (Distributed File Systems, and with POSIX-like semantics)

Week 12

• Tuesday, November 12, 2013 (Special-Purposed DFSs)
• Thursday, November 14, 2013 (Anonymous Commuication, Onion Routing, Tor) [pdf, great paper from UMich]

Week 13

• Tuesday, November 19, 2013: Security: Cryptographic Protocols [pdf] / [ppt] / [pptx]
• Thursday, November 21, 2013: Virtualization [ppt] [ppt] / [ppt] /

Week 14

• Thanksgiving -- No class

Week 15

• December 3, 2013: Putting it together (Discussion about systemic trade-offs, DNS: The Most Successful Distributed System, Ever?)
• December 5, 2013: Exam discussion/Wrap-up