Welcome to our extravaganza in building cool systems that involve multiple computational devices, CSC 462/562 Distributed Computing. This course is for fearless 4th year undergrads and grads.
| Date | Topics | Homework |
|---|---|---|
| Jan 5 | Intro and basics of Distributed Systems | Read Tutorial and do exercises 3, 9, 11 (post to coursespaces!) |
| Jan 8 | Intro to RPC, DNS | Read RPC, DNS, Post comments and prepare for Lab |
| Jan 12 | Intro to Keys and [Lab 1] (https://github.com/ycoady/UVic-Distributed-Systems/tree/master/LAB1) | Post comments for papers |
| Jan 15 | RPC versus LPC | Post comments for papers |
| Jan 19 | DNS and NTP and [Lab 2] (https://github.com/ycoady/UVic-Distributed-Systems/tree/master/LAB2) | Read Logical Clocks and Distributed Snapshots |
| Jan 22 | Intro to Logical Clocks | Post comments on Logical Clocks |
| Jan 26 | Intro GEE (Rick) and [Lab 3] (https://github.com/ycoady/UVic-Distributed-Systems/tree/master/LAB3) | Post comments on Distributed Snapshots, Read Two Phase Commit (Chapter 7, up to 7.5) |
| Jan 29 | Overlay Networks (Rick) | Update on [Portal Crash] (https://github.com/ycoady/UVic-Distributed-Systems/blob/master/PortalCrashUpdate.md) |
| Feb 2 | Microsoft (Rob) | Intro to [Lab 4] (https://github.com/ycoady/UVic-Distributed-Systems/tree/master/LAB4) and Check out the [BitTorrent Protocol] (http://www.bittorrent.org/beps/bep_0003.html) |
| Feb 5 | Distributed Snapshots and Projects | What questions are you able to address on this [checklist] (http://monkey.org/~marius/checklist.pdf)? |
| Feb 9/12 | Happy Family Day and Reading Week! | This classic paper (particularly the lattice!) clarifies issues involving [Consistent Global States] (http://www.eecs.harvard.edu/cs262/Readings/babaoglu93consistent.pdf) |
| Feb 16/19 | Projects and Midterm! | This on the CAP Theorem [retrospective] (http://www.infoq.com/articles/cap-twelve-years-later-how-the-rules-have-changed) helps in understanding how distributed systems have evolved! |
| Feb 23 | Project 2 ideas! | GEE this is terrific! |
| Feb 26 | Peter from Heroku | Post any questions on forum! He will ask you about the CAP Theorum! |
| Mar 2 | Abebooks Scrunch Part1 | Meet in ECS 660 |
| Mar 5/9/12 | Project Presentations! | 10 minutes, can use laptop/blackboard, be ready to ask questions! |
| Mar 16 | Abebooks Scrunch Part2 | Meet in ECS 660 |
| Mar 19 | Do incentives work? | Read BitTyrant for Monday |
| Mar 26 | Midterm | |
| Mar 30 | Final Scrunch! | Meet in ECS 660 |
| Apr 2 | Project Presentations | Final wrap up! |