Week 1

• Tuesday, January 17, 2012 (Administrivia)
• Thursday, January 19, 2012 (Systems, Distributed Systems, and Some OS Bits)

Week 2

• Tuesday, January 24, 2012 (Networking: Physical, Link, and Network Layers)
• Thursday, January 26, 2012 (Networking: Transport layer, UDP, TCP)

Week 3

• Tuesday, January 31, 2012 (RPC, RMI (Application Layer))
• Thursday, February 2, 2012 (Shared-Memory Concurrency: Test-And-Set, Mutexes, Condition Variables))

Week 4

• Tuesday, February 7, 2012 (Semaphores, Producer-Consumer, Reader-Writer)
• Thursday, February 9, 2012 (Physical Time, Synchronization of, Lamport Time, Vector Time, Causality)

Week 5

• Tuesday, February 14, 2012 (Replication, Quorums, Ghosts)
• Thursday, February 16, 2012 (Distributed Concurrency Control)

Week 6

• Tuesday, February 21, 2012 (Coordinator Election)
• Thursday, February 23, 2012 (Transactions, 2PC, 2PL)

Week 7

• Tuesday, February 28, 2012 (Two Armies, Byzantine Generals)
• Thursday, March 1, 2012 (Mid-semester Exam)

Week 8

• Tuesday, March 6, 2012 (Recovery: Checkpointing)
• Thursday, March 8, 2012 (No class -- Mid-semester break)

Week 9

• Tuesday, March 20, 2012 (Recovery: Logging)
• Thursday, March 22, 2012 (Models of Distributed Programming, MPI [ppt])

Week 10

• Tuesday, March 27, 2012 (MPI, continued [ppt])
• Thursday, March 29, 2012 (Map-Reduce Model, Hadoop) [ppt])

Week 11

• Tuesday, April 3, 2012 (Distributed File Systems, Intro)
• Thursday, April 5, 2012 (DFS, Non-Posix Semantics)

Week 12

• Tuesday, April 10, 2012 (Processor Allocation and Process Migration)
• Tuesday, April 12, 2012 (PVM, Condor, OpenPBS, Torque, etc)

Week 13

• Tuesday, April 17, 2012 (Project #4)
• Tuesday, April 19, 2012 (Carnival -- No class)

Week 14

• Tuesday, April 24, 2012 (Kesden lost voice! [It was sad]. No lecture)
• Thursday, April 26, 2012 (Virtualization) [ppt]