Instructors

	Prof. Douglas Thain (dthain@nd.edu) Office Hours: Tuesdays, 1-3PM (or by appointment) Office: 206B Cushing
	TA: Colin Thomas (cthoma26@nd.edu) Office Hours: Wednesday, Friday 1pm-3pm Office: 150B Fitzpatrick Hall (Student Commons)
	TA: Leyang Li (lli27@nd.edu) Office Hours: Monday, Thursday 3:30pm-5:30pm Office: 150B Fitzpatrick Hall (Student Commons)

Course Materials

• Syllabus
• Textbook: Distributed Systems, 4th Edition
• General Instructions for Assignments
• Course Canvas Page
• #distsys-sp26 Slack Channel

Office Hours

Office hours will be held in person starting the second week of class.

• Prof. Thain: Tuesdays 1-3PM 206B Cushing Hall (or by appointment)
• Colin Thomas: Wednesdays and Fridays 1pm-3pm 150B Fitzpatrick Hall (Student Commons)
• Leyang Li: Monday, Thursday 3:30pm-5:30pm 150B Fitzpatrick Hall (Student Commons)

Course Schedule

	Monday	Wednesday	Friday
Jan 12	Introduction Syllabus Chapter 1	Architectures Chapter 2	Processes Chapter 3 Reading 1 Due
Jan 19	Martin Luther King Jr. Day	Clients and Servers Chapter 3	Server Clusters Chapter 3 A1 Due: Measuring
Jan 26	Communications Chapter 4.1 Reading 2 Due	Assignment Overview Remote Procedure Call Chapter 4.2	Remote Procedure Call Chapter 4.2 A2 Due: Networking
Feb 2	RPC Semantics Chapter 8.3 Reading 3 Due	Checkpoint and Log	Case Study: NFS (Colin) Chapter 2.3 RFC 1094 (NFS) A3 Due: RPC
Feb 9	Naming Chapter 6.1 Reading 4 Due	Chord Chapter 6.2	DNS Chapter 6.3 A4 Due: Persistence
Feb 16	What is Time? Chapter 5.1 Reading 5 Due	Time Sync Chapter 5.1	Logical Clocks Chapter 5.2 A5 Due: Naming
Feb 23	Vector Clocks Chapter 5.2.2 Reading 6 Due	Causal Multicast Chapter 5.2.2	Catch Up / Review (TBD) A6 Due: Concurrency
Mar 2	Midterm Exam	Mutual Exclusion Chapter 5.3	Elections Chapter 6.4 Project Proposal Due
Mar 9	Spring Break
Mar 16	Replication Strategies Chapter 7.1 Reading 7 Due	Data Centric Consistency Chapter 7.2	Client Centric Consistency Chapter 7.3 A7 Due: P2P/Policy Improvements
Mar 23	Consistency Contd. Reading 8 Due	Two Phase Commit Chapter 8.5	Chain Replication
Mar 30	Slides: HPC Intro Reading 9 Due	Slides: HTCondor	Good Friday
Apr 6	Easter Holiday	Slides: Workflows Reading 10 Due Reproducing LIGO	Slides: Tasks and Functions Progress Report Due
Apr 13	(no class) Work on Projects Chapter 9.1 Reading 11 Due	Encryption Basics Chapter 9.2	Public Key Systems Chapter 9.3
Apr 20	Project Talks: Signal Bazaar Distributed Market Order Book Distributed Voting System	Project Talks: Scalable Distributed Filesystem Anonymous IRC Over Onion Routing Distributed Prediction Market	Project Talks: Distributed Job Scheduler Online Euchre Distributed NN Training
Apr 27	Project Talks: Dist File Sharing with Auth OpenStreetMap Cluster Distributed Filesystem	Project Talks: Distributed Duck Chess Kage Bunshin no Calendar DistriBoarded Final Project Due 5:00PM	No Class
	Final Exam - Monday May 4th - 10:30-12:30