You should be sure to be familar with the Official Semester Dates Some of the critical Semester Dates are:
| Monday | Tuesday | Wednesday | Thursday | Friday |
| sep 2 Labor Day Holiday |
sep 5 | sep 4 LEC 1: Introduction Preparation: Read MapReduce (2004) Assigned: Lab 1: MapReduce First day of classes |
sep 5 | sep 6 |
| sep 9 LEC 2: RPC and Threads, lab rpc code Preparation: (Question) Do the Online Go tutorial |
sep 10 | sep 11 LEC 3: GFS Preparation: Read GFS (2003) (Question) Assigned: Lab 2: Raft |
sep 12 |
sep 13 DUE: Lab 1: MapReduce |
| sep 16 LEC 4: Fault Tolerance: Raft Preparation: Read Raft (extended) (2014), through Section 5 (Question) |
sep 17 |
sep 18 LEC 5: Fault Tolerance: Raft Preparation: Read Raft (extended) (2014), Section 6 to end (Question) |
sep 19 | sep 20 |
| sep 23 LEC 6: Primary-Backup Replication Preparation: Read Fault-Tolerant Virtual Machines (2010) (Question) |
sep 24 |
sep 25 Hacking day, no lecture |
sep 26 | sep 27 DUE: Lab 2A: Raft |
| sep 30 LEC 7: Zookeeper Preparation: Read ZooKeeper (2010) (Question) |
oct 1 |
oct 2 Hacking day, no lecture |
oct 3 | oct 4 DUE: Lab 2B: Raft |
| oct 7 LEC 8: Optimistic Concurrency Control Preparation: Read Thor (1995) (Question) Assigned: Lab 3: Fault Tolerant K/V Service DROP DATE NO 'W' |
oct 8 |
oct 9 Hacking day, no lecture |
oct 10 |
oct 11 DUE: Lab 2C: Raft |
| oct 14 Columbus Day |
oct 15 Monday Schedule: LEC 9: Distributed Transactions Preparation: Read Argus (1988)) (Question) |
oct 16 LEC 10: farm Preparation: Read FaRM (2015) (Question) |
oct 17 | oct 18 DUE: Grad Project proposal |
| oct 21 Exam 1: Mid-term exam during lecture time Materials: Open book and notes Scope: Lectures 1-10 |
oct 22 | oct 23 LEC 11: Distributed Computing: Relaxed consistency Preparation: Read TreadMarks (1994) (Question) |
oct 24 | oct 25 |
| oct 28 LEC 12: Disconnected Operation: Eventual Consistency Preparation: Read Bayou (1995) (Question) |
oct 29 | oct 30 Hacking day, no lecture |
oct 31 | nov 1 DUE: Lab 3: KV Raft, Part A |
| nov 4 LEC 13: Case Studies: Relaxed Consistency Preparation: Read PNUTS (2008) (Question) Assigned: BONUS: Lab 4: Sharded Key/Value Service |
nov 5 | nov 6 LEC 14: Wide-Area Publish/Subscribe Preparation: Read Wormhole (2015) (Question) |
nov 7 | nov 8 DROP DATE WITH 'W' |
| nov 11 LEC 15: Measuring Consistency Preparation: Read Existential Consistency (2015) (Question) |
nov 12 | nov 13 Hacking day, no lecture |
nov 14 | nov 15 DUE: Lab 3, part B |
| nov 18 LEC 16: Case Studies: Spark Preparation: Read Spark (2012) (Question) |
nov 19 | nov 20 LEC 17: Cluster Management Preparation: Read Borg (2015) (Question) |
nov 21 | nov 22 |
| nov 25 LEC 18: Case Studies: Dynamo Preparation: Read Dynamo (2007) (Question) |
nov 26 | nov 27 Thanksgiving Recess |
nov 28 Thanksgiving Recess |
nov 29 Thanksgiving Recess |
| dec 2 LEC 19: Function as a Service Preparation: None |
dec 3 |
dec 4 Continuation of Dynamo lecture 18 |
dec 5 | dec 6
DUE: Grad Project report |
| dec 9 LEC 20: Peer-to-peer: Trackerless Bittorrent and DHTs Preparation: Read Chord (2001) and Trackerless Bittorrent (2008) (Question) |
dec 10 | dec 11 LAST DAY OF CLASSES Exam 2: Final exam during lecture time Materials: Open book and notes Scope: Lectures 11-20 DUE: BONUS: Lab 4 |
dec 13 |
dec 14 |
| dec 17 | dec 18 |
dec 19 | dec 20 | dec 21 |