teaching
CMSC 327
Distributed Systems
overview | logistics | schedule | announcements | assignments | resourcesTentative Schedule (changes frequently)
| week | date | topics | readings | work assigned |
| 1 | 8/30/2010 | course introduction | syllabus | |
| 9/1/2009 | distributed computing | ch. 1 of DSPP; Fallacies of Distributed Computing Explained by Arnon Rotem-Gal-Oz | ||
| 2 | 9/6/2010 | architectures | ch. 2 of DSPP | project 1: client-server I |
| 9/8/2010 | peer-to-peer | "Looking up data in P2P systems" by Balakrishnan et al. | ||
| 3 | 9/13/2010 | communication; UDP/TCP/IP | ch. 4 of DSPP | |
| 9/15/2010 | mobile networks | "Epidemic Routing in Partially-Connected Ad Hoc Networks" by Vahdat & Becker | ||
| 4 | 9/20/2010 | processes; virtualization | ch. 3 of DSPP | project 2: client-server II |
| 9/22/2010 | active networks; mobile code | "Maté: A Tiny Virtual Machine for Sensor Networks" by Levis & Culler | ||
| 5 | 9/27/2010 | naming | ch. 5 of DSPP | |
| 9/29/2010 | security | ch. 9 of DSPP | ||
| 6 | 10/4/2010 | timing and synchronization | ch. 6 of DSPP | |
| 10/6/2010 | logical clocks | "Time, Clocks, and the Ordering of Events in a Distributed System" by Lamport presented by Adina and Maksim | ||
| 7 | 10/11/2009 | FALL BREAK | ||
| 10/13/2010 | object systems | ch. 10 of DSPP | project 3: clock synchronization with Java RMI and supporting code | |
| 8 | 10/18/2010 | caching; consistency | ch. 7 of DSPP | |
| 10/20/2010 | "The Dangers of Replication and a Solution" by Gray et al. presented by Anis and Will | |||
| 9 | 10/25/2010 | fault tolerance | ch. 8 of DSPP | |
| 10/27/2010 | group communication | "The Process Group Approach to Reliable Distributed Computing" by Birman presented by Ben and John | project 4: group communication and supporting code | |
| 10 | 11/1/20105 | distributed consensus and leader election | "The Many Faces of Consensus in Distributed Systems" by Turek and Shasha presented by Nabil and Saquib | |
| 11/3/2010 | scalability | "Scale in Distributed Systems" by Neuman | ||
| 11 | 11/08/2010 | file systems | ch. 11 of DSPP | |
| 11/10/2010 | "The Evolution of Coda" by Satyanaryanan et al. presented by Blagoy and Erik | |||
| 12 | 11/15/2010 | map/reduce | "MapReduce: Simplified Data Processing on Large Clusters" by Dean & Ghemawat presented by Giulio and Shun-Yang | project 5: replication |
| 11/17/2010 | ADVISING DAY | |||
| 13 | 11/22/2010 | web services | "Principled Design of Modern Web Architecture" by Fielding and Taylor presented by Jonathan and Nathaniel | |
| 11/24/2010 | ch. 12 of DSPP | |||
| 14 | 11/29/2010 | publish-subscribe systems | ch. 13 of DSPP | Lightweight Communications and Marshalling |
| 12/1/2010 | bloom filters | "Network Applications of Bloom Filters: A Survey" by Broder & Mitzenmacher presented by Amar and Curtis | ||
| 15 | 12/6/2010 | language support; agents; actors; | "Actors in Scala", actors tutorial, and remote actors | |
| 12/8/2010 | "Energy-efficient computing for wildlife tracking: design tradeoffs and early experiences with zebranet" by Juang et al. presented by Abhi and Bella | |||
| 16 | 12/13/2010 | project presentations | ||
| 12/15/2010 | ||||