Course Schedule

CS [4|5]113 Fall 2020

Note: schedule and readings are subject to change
DS = Distributed Systems 3rd edition
HW = Homework

Subject to change

Date	Topic	Reading	Due
08/25	Welcome	Syllabus + Class Questionaire
08/27	Operating Systems Review
09/01	Introduction to Distributed Systems	DS 1
09/03	Introduction to Distributed Systems	DS 1
09/08	Architectures	DS 2	HW 1
09/10	Architectures	DS 2
09/15	Architectures	DS 2	Assignment 1
09/17	Guest Lecture: Dr. Pierre St. Juste (Remote Procedure Calls)	DS 2
09/22	Processes	DS 3	Assignment 2 + HW 2
09/24	Processes	DS 3
09/29	Processes	DS 3
10/01	Communication	DS 4	HW 3
10/06	Communication	DS 4	Assignment 3
10/08	Naming	DS 5	HW 4
10/13	Guest Lecture: Joir-dan Gumbs	DS 5	Midterm Proposal
10/15	Coordination	DS 6	HW 5
10/20	Coordination	DS 6
10/22	Paper A		HW 6
10/27	Paper B		HW 7
10/29	Paper C		HW 8
11/03	Election Day!! Be sure to Vote! (No class.)
11/05	Paper D		Project Alpha HW 10
11/10	Paper E		HW 11
11/12	Paper F		HW 12
11/17	Paper G		Project Test Integration HW 13
11/19	Paper H		HW 14
11/24	Project Workday		HW 15
11/26	No Class		HW 16
12/01	Paper I		Project Due HW 17
12/03	Paper J
12/08	Paper K
12/10	Project Workdays
Wednesday 12/16	Final Exam Slot Video Conference 1:30 - 3:30

Papers Presentations

Instructions

Paper ID	Paper	Student 1	Student 2
A	The Byzantine Generals Problem	Andrew Elaryan	Noah Zemlin
B	The Part-Time Parliament	Grant Swalwell	Jack Williams
C	OceanStore: An Architecture for Global-Scale Persistent Storage	Noah Fryer	Omkar Chekuri
D	Chord: A Scalable Peer-to-peer Lookup Service for Internet Applications	Andrew Massey	Noah Craig
E	The Chubby lock service for loosely-coupled distributed systems	Conner Flansburg	Gregory Maddra
F	Bigtable: A Distributed Storage System for Structured Data	Jon LeMaster	Alan Lee
G	Dynamo: amazon’s highly available key-value store	David Lynch	Edwin Yang
H	Spanner: Google’s Globally-Distributed Database	Shawn Owen	Qiuye He
I	MillWheel: Fault-Tolerant Stream Processing at Internet Scale	Caleb Yarnell	Yan He
J	Omega: flexible, scalable schedulers for large compute clusters	Jaclyn De los Angeles	Eric Rackelin
K	In Search of an Understandable Consensus Algorithm	Ahmad Tashfeen	Clark Barrus

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