Week 1

• Tuesday, January 15, 2013 (Intro and Administrivia)
• Thursday, January 17, 2013 (Systems, Distributed Systems, and Some OS Bits)

Week 2

• Tuesday, January 22, 2013 (Networking, Wires through IP)
• Wednesday, January 23, 2013 (Special Project Session for Lab 1: [example code, .tar] / [slides, .pptx])
• Thursday, January 24, 2013 (Networking: Transport and above)

Week 3

• Tuesday, January 29, 2013 (Project #1 Strategies and Approaches)
• Thursday, January 31, 2013 (Message passing, RPC, and RMI)

Week 4

• Tuesday, February 5, 2013 (Perspective: Concurrency control in monolithic systems)
• Thursday, February 7, 2013 (Physical and Logical Time)

Week 5

• Tuesday, February 12, 2013 (Distributed Mutual Exclusion)
• Thursday, February 14, 2013 (Special Project Session for Lab 2: [example code, .tar])
• Thursday, February 14, 2013 (Coordinator Election)

Week 6

• Tuesday, February 19, 2013 (ACID and Transactions)
• Thursday, February 21, 2013 (Replication and Quorums)

Week 7

• Tuesday, February 26, 2013 (Agreement, and Impossibility Thereof -- Armies and Generals)
• Thursday, February 28, 2013 (Recovery)

Week 8

• Tuesday, March 5, 2013 (Exam Preview Discussion)
• Thursday, March 7, 2013 (Midterm Exam)

Spring Break

• No classes -- Spring break

Week 9

• Tuesday, March 18, 2013 (Map-Reduce, Hadoop)
• Thursday, March 20, 2013 (Map-Reduce, Hadoop, cont.)

Week 10

• Tuesday, March 25, 2013 (Message Passing v. Shared Memory, MPI) [pptx]
• Thursday, March 27, 2013 (Message Passing v. Shared Memory, MPI, cont.) [pptx]
• Sunday, March 31, 2013 (Special Project Session for Lab 3: [example code, .tar])

Week 11

• Tuesday, April 2, 2013 (Condor and OpenPBS/Torque, Processor Allocation and Migration Strategies)
• Thursday, April 5, 2013 (General Distributed File Systems, e.g. DFSs with Posix-like Semantics)

Week 12

• Tuesday, April 9, 2013 (Special-Purpose Distributed File Systems)
• Thursday, April 11, 2013 (Security: An Overview of Cryptographic Techniques) [pdf] / [ppt] / [pptx]

Week 13

• Tuesday, April 16, 2013 (Security: Key Management and Distribution) [pdf] / [ppt] / [pptx]
• Thursday, April 18, 2013 (No Classes -- Carnival)

Week 14

• Tuesday, April 23, 2013 (No Class -- Kesden in Industry Partner Collaboration Meetings all Day)
• Thursday, April 25, 2013 (Anonymous Commuication, Onion Routing, Tor) [pdf, great paper from UMich]

Week 15

• Tuesday, April 30, 2013 (Virtualization) [pdf] / [ppt] / [pptx]
• Thursday, May 2, 2013 (Wrap up)