Instructors

Prof. Douglas Thain	TA: Nathan Gandawa	TA: Barry Sly-Delgado	Guest: Thanh Son Phung

Course Materials

• Syllabus
• Textbook: Distributed Systems, Fourth Edition
• General Instructions for Assignments
• Course Canvas Page
• #distsys-fa24 Slack Channel

Office Hours

For the second half of the semester, please book a meeting time with Prof. Thain if you would like to discuss your project in detail. Office hours will be held in person starting the second week of class. We can also Zoom at those times on request by Slack or email.

• Prof. Thain: 2-3:30PM Tue/Thu in 384C Fitzpatrick (CSE Main Office)
• TA: Nathan Gandawa: 2-4PM Mon/Wed in CSE Undergraduate Commons

Course Schedule

	Reading Due	Monday	Wednesday	Friday
Aug 6			Intro and Purposes Chapter 1	Architectures Chapter 2 Chap 2.1-2.3 Notes Due
Sep 2	Chap 3.1-3.4	Processes Chapter 3	Clients and Servers Chapter 3	Server Clusters Chapter 3 A1 Due: Measuring
Sep 9	Chap 4.1-4.2	Communications Chapter 4.1	UDP and TCP Chapter 4.1	(no class)
Sep 16	Chap 2.4 / 8.3	Remote Procedure Call Chapter 4.2 A2-A6 Overview	Case Study: NFS Chapter 2.4 (RFC 1094)	Logging and Checkpointing A2 Due: RPC
Sep 23	Chap 6.1-6.3	Naming Chapter 6.1-6.2	Case Study: Chord Chapter 6.2	Case Study: DNS Chapter 6.3 A3 Due: Persistence
Sep 30	Chap 5.1	What is Time? Chapter 5.1	Clock Synchronization Chapter 5.1	Logical Clocks Chapter 5.2 A4 Due: Naming
Oct 7	Chap 5.2	Logical Clocks Chapter 5.2	Vector Clocks Chapter 5.2	Catch Up / Review A5 Due: Concurrency
Oct 14	Chap 5.3	Midterm Exam 1	Mutual Exclusion Chapter 5.3	Elections Chapter 5.4 Project Proposal Due
Oct 21	Fall Break
Oct 28	Chap 7.1-7.3	Replication Strategies Chapter 7.1	Data Centric Consistency Chapter 7.2	Client Centric Consistency Chapter 7.3 A6 Due: Replication
Nov 4	Chap 8.5	Consistency Contd	Two Phase Commit Chapter 8.5	Chain Replication (Paper)
Nov 11	Chap 9.1-9.3	Security - General Chapter 9.1/9.3	Symmetric Key Systems Chapter 9.2	Asymmetric Key Systems Chapter 9.2 Progress Report Due
Nov 18		Case Study: TaskVine (Paper)	Case Study: Ceph (Paper)	Case Study: Kafka (Paper)
Nov 25		Midterm Exam 2	Thanksgiving	Thanksgiving
Dec 2		Project Talks BitTorrent, Evan Day and Miles Laning. Application Agnostic Event Rooms, Matheus de Andrade Barros and Patrick Schlosser. Multi-User Game, James Lindell and Blake Caven and Justin Yatsuhashi. Multiplayer Snake Abby Kleist and Hunter Flick.	Project Talks StudyChat Christian Farls and Tom Kusak Decentralized Chat Jachob Dolak and Lang Li Stock Exchange Dagny Brand and Zach Brown Local/Cloud LLM Phyona Shrader and Jonathan Granda Acaro	Project Talks Pictionary Carolina Carpenetti and Elizabeth Link Collaborative Editor Daniel Blittschau and Victoria Mendez Cambio Andrew Mitchell and Kyle Phan Dist. Chess Ryan Nahm and Sam Pardy
Dec 9		Project Talks Mafia Walker Bagley and Eamon Tracey P2P Chat John Kapustka and Sophia Labrador The Crew Meghan Finnery and Kelly Williams P2P Hash Table Leyang Li and Zanxiang Yin	Final Project Due Wed at 5PM Project Talks Dist Hash Table Kevin Xue and Luke Cao Dist Market Simulator Anna Briamonte and Oluwatoni Akintola Magic Polaroid Mark Van Kirk and Nolan Kyhl Dist File System DeVante Brooks and Philip Tallmadge	Study Day
Final Exam Saturday Dec 14th 1:45-3:45PM in 220D Bond Hall