Instructors

	Prof. Douglas Thain Office Hours: Mon 2-4PM, Wed 1-3PM Office: 384C Fitzpatrick Hall (Dept Office)
	TA: Thanh Phung Office Hours: Tue 3-5PM, Wed 3-5PM Office: 150B Fitzpatrick Hall (Student Commons)

Course Materials

• Syllabus
• Textbook: Distributed Systems, Third Edition
• Readings for Graduate Students
• General Instructions for Assignments
• Course Canvas Page
• #distsys-sp23 Slack Channel

Office Hours

Office hours will be held in person starting the second week of class. If you prefer to talk via Zoom, please indicate that via slack or email, and we will dial into Zoom.

• Prof. Thain: Mon 2-4PM Wed 1-3PM in 384C Fitzpatrick (CSE Main Office) (zoom on request)
• Thanh Phung: Tue 3-5PM, Wed 3-5PM in 150B Fitzpatrick (CSE Student Commons) (zoom on request)
  

Course Schedule

	Monday	Wednesday	Friday	Grad Reading Due Sun
Jan 16		Intro and Purposes Chapter 1	Architectures Chapter 2	A Note on Distributed Computing
Jan 23	Processes Chapter 3	Clients and Servers Chapter 3 A1 Due: Measuring	Server Clusters Chapter 3	Scalability! COST?
Jan 30	Communications Chapter 4.1	Remote Procedure Call Chapter 4.2	Remote Procedure Call Chapter 4.2	Mercury RPC
Feb 6	RPC Semantics Chapter 8.3	State Management A2 Due: RPC	Case Study: NFS Chapter 2.4 RFC 1094	Tango
Feb 13	Messaging Chapter 4.3	Naming Chapter 5.1-5.2 A3 Due: Persistence	Chord Chapter 5.3	Chord
Feb 20	Chord / DNS Chapter 5.3	What is Time? Chapter 6.1 A4 Due: Naming	Logical Clocks Chapter 6.2	Distributed Snapshots
Feb 27	Logical Clocks Chapter 6.2	Vector Clocks Chapter 6.2 A5 Due: Concurrency	Catch Up / Review	Byzantine Generals
Mar 6	Midterm Exam	Mutual Exclusion Chapter 6.3	Elections Chapter 6.4 Project Proposal Due
Mar 13	Spring Break
Mar 20	Replication Strategies Chapter 7.1	Data Centric Consistency Chapter 7.2	Client Centric Consistency Chapter 7.3	Leases
Mar 27	Consistency Contd	Two Phase Commit Chapter 8.5 A6 Due: Replication	Chain Replication (Paper)	Keeping CALM
Apr 3	Security - General Chapter 9.1/9.3	Symmetric Key Systems Chapter 9.2 Progress Report Due	Good Friday
Apr 10	Easter Holiday	Asymmetric Key Systems Chapter 9.2	Asymmetric Contd.
Apr 17	Case Study: HTCondor (Paper)	Case Study: Ceph (Paper)	Case Study: Kafka (Paper)
Apr 24	Colin Thomas and Tony Alarcon - Privacy Preserving P2P Chat Weike Fang and Ziang Tong - Social Network Josh Chun and Ryan McCann - P2Play	Project Talks: Danny Minogue and Ruochen Sun - Reliable Chord Kerry Goodwine and Aton Lee - Persistent Chord Luke Miller and Stefan Mesaric - Dungeon Crawl	Project Talks: Ben Egloff and Danielle Croft - P2P Hashtable Jon Brockett and Patrick Pendergast - Oxygen Game Drew Lair and Michael Bai - Multiplayer Rogue John Lee and David Simonetti - Market Simulation
May 1	Project Talks: Sasi Masasa and Ben Swiderski - P2P Chat Sebastian Gutierrrez and Will McComis - PermiCloud Trevor Komejii and Sergio Morales - Distributed Filesystem Jozef Porubcin and John Sullivan - SPIN Preservation	Project Talks: Jean Francois Boueri and Bridget Goodwine - Multiplayer Adventure Celina Ryan and Meghan Novak - Spoons Mia Manabat and Brett Wiseman - Distributed Chess (GREG) Matt Carbonaro and Danny Schermerhorn - DistSysLash Final Project Due Wed at 5PM
Open Review - Thursday, May 4th at 1:00PM
Final Exam - Thursday, May 11th at 8:00AM