Distributed Computer Systems Engineering

Lecture Notes

LEC #	TOPICS	HANDOUTS
1	Introduction and O/S review (PDF)	syscall.c (C) webserver.c (C)
2	I/O concurrency (PDF 1) Event-driven programming (PDF 2)	events.c (C) webclient.c (C) webclient_libasync.c (C)
3	Event-driven programming (cont.) (PDF)	arpc.c (C)
4	Network file system (PDF)
5	RPC transparency (PDF)
6	Crash recovery (PDF)
7	Logging (PDF)
8	Cache consistency and locking (PDF)
9	Memory consistency (PDF)
10	First project conferences
11	Memory consistency (cont.) (PDF)
12	Vector timestamps and version vectors (PDF)
13	Two-phase commit (PDF)
14	Paxos (PDF)
15	Viewstamped replication (PDF)
16	Harp (PDF)
17	Second project conferences
18	Frangipani (PDF)
19	Scalable lookup (PDF)
20	Wide-area storage
21	Hacking day (no class)
22	Project demonstrations
23	Content distribution
24	Distributed computing