Week 1

• Administrivia, Limitations (DSM, n*1/m vs m) of Distributed Systems, Promise of Distributed Systems
• Systems, Distributed Systems, and Some OS Bits

Week 2

• Network: Wires through IP
• Networking: UDP, TCP and above

Week 3

• Communication: Sockets, RPC, RMI
• Scheduling, Concurrency, and Shared Memory
  
  
• Project #1 Assigned (Tuesday)

Week 4

• Shared Memory Concurrency control (Atomic operations, mutexes, condition variables, semaphores, producer-consumer, reader-writer)
• Time in distributed systems: Physical and Logical
  
  
• Project #1 Due

Week 5

• Consistency and Replication: Consistency Models
• Consistency and Replication: Quorums and Management, Best-Effort Management
  
  
• Project #1 Due (Tuesday)
  
  
• Project #2 Assigned (Thursday)

Week 6

• Distributed Mutual Exclusion, Election
• 2PC, Multicast, Distributed Transactions, ACID, BASE, CAP

Week 7

• Fault Tolerance: Agreement (Two Armies, Generals)
• Midterm Exam

Week 8

• Fault Tolerance: Logging
• Fault Tolerance: Checkpointing
  
  
• Project #2 Due

Mid-Semester Break

• No classes

Week 9

• Programming models: MPI
• Programming models: OpenMP
  
  
• Project #3 Assigned

Week 10

• Programming models: Map-Reduce
• Processor Allocation and Process Migration

Week 11

• Condor, OpenPBS
• Distributed File Systems (DFS): NFS, AFS, Coda

Week 12

• Distributed File Systems with non-Posix-like semantics (Lustre, HDFS, MogileFS, etc)
• Security: Threats, Policies, and Models
  
  
• Project #3 Due

Week 13

• Cryptography, Security Protocols, and Secure System Design
• Carnival -- No class
  
  
• Project #4 Assigned

Week 14

• Anonymous routing and Tor, Distributed Hahsing
• Virtualization, I

Week 15

• Virtualization, II
• Wrap-up
  
  
• Project #4 Due

Final Exams

• Enjoy!