Week 1

• Introduction and Administrivia
• Systems, Distributed Systems, and Some OS Bits, Limitations (DSM, n*1/m vs m) of Distributed Systems, Promise of Distributed Systems
  
  
• Project #1: Process Migration -- Assigned (Thursday)

Week 2

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

Week 3

• Communication: Sockets, RPC, RMI
• Scheduling, Concurrency, and Shared Memory
  
  
• Project #1: Process Migration -- Due (Thursday)

Week 4

• Shared Memory Concurrency control (Atomic operations, mutexes, condition variables, semaphores, producer-consumer, reader-writer)
• Time in distributed systems: Physical and Logical
  
  
• Project #2: RPC/RMI -- Assigned (Tuesday)

Week 5

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

Week 6

• Consistency and Replication: Consistency Models
• Consistency and Replication: Quorums and Management, Best-Effort Management

Week 7

• Fault Tolerance: Agreement (Two Armies, Generals)
• Fault Tolerance: Logging
  
  
• Project #2: RPC/RMI -- Due (Thursday)

Week 8

• Fault Tolerance: Checkpointing
• Midterm Exam

Mid-Semester Break

• No classes

Week 9

• Programming models: Map-Reduce, Model, System Design
• Programming models: Map-Reduce, Algorithms
  
  
• Project #3: Distributed Computing Framework -- Assigned (Tuesday)

Week 10

• Programming models: MPI and OpenMP
• Programming models: Condor, OpenPBS

Week 11

• Processor Allocation and Process Migration
• Distributed File Systems (DFS): NFS, AFS, Coda

Week 12

• Distributed File Systems with non-Posix-like semantics (Lustre, HDFS, MogileFS, HDFS, etc)
• Distributed File Systems with non-Posix-like semantics, cont.
  
  
• Project #3: Distributed Computing Framework -- Due (Tuesday)
• Project #4: MPI and OpenMP -- Assigned (Thursday)

Week 13

• Security: Threats, Policies, and Models
• Carnival -- No class

Week 14

• Cryptography, Security Protocols, and Secure System Design
• Anonymous routing and Tor, Distributed Hashing

Week 15

• Virtualization
• Wrap-up
  
  
• Project #4: MPI vs Hadoop -- Due (Thursday)

Final Exams

• Enjoy!