Course schedule (tentative)
| Date | Time | Location | Reading | Topic |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Week 36 | ||||
| Tuesday Sep 1 | 08:15 - 10:00 | MA146 | Course Info, L1: Introduction | |
| Friday Sep 4 | 08:15 - 10:00 | MA146 | L2: Building Blocks | |
| Week 37 | ||||
| Tuesday Sep 8 | 08:15 - 10:00 | MA146 | Thinking Clearly About Performance | L3: Performance |
| Tuesday Sep 8 | 10:15 - 12:00 | MA416 MA426 |
T1: Tutorial Systems Performance | |
| Friday Sep 11 | 08:15 - 10:00 | MA146 | L4: Time and Global States | |
| Week 38 | ||||
| Monday Sep 14 | 09:00 | Publication: Written Exam 1 | ||
| Tuesday Sep 15 | 08:15 - 10:00 | MA146 | L5: Mutual Exclusions and Elections | |
| Wednesday Sep 16 | 12:00 | Deadline: Assignment 1 | ||
| Friday Sep 18 | 08:15 - 10:00 | MA146 | L6: Group Communication | |
| Friday Sep 18 | 10:15 - 12:00 | MA416 MA426 |
T2: Tutorial Group Communication GCom | |
| Friday Sep 18 | 12:00 | Deadline: Written Exam 1 | ||
| Week 39 | ||||
| Tuesday Sep 22 | 08:15 - 10:00 | MA146 | Paxos Made Simple The Part-Time Partliament |
L7: Distributed Agreements |
| Friday Sep 25 | 08:15 - 10:00 | MA166 | Erasure Coding vs. Replication: A Quantitative Comparison
Understanding replication in databases and distributed systems |
L8: Replication |
| Week 40 | ||||
| Monday Sep 28 | 09:00 | Publication: Written Exam 2 | ||
| Tuesday Sep 29 | 08:15 - 10:00 | MA146 | CAP Twelve Years Later: How the “Rules” Have Changed | L9: Consistency |
| Friday Oct 2 | 17:00 | Deadline: Written Exam 2 | ||
| Week 41 | ||||
| Tuesday Oct 6 | 08:15 - 10:00 | MA146 | Three-Phase Commit Protocol | L10: Transactions |
| Week 42 | ||||
| Monday Oct 12 | 09:00 | Publication: Written Exam 3 | ||
| Tuesday Oct 13 | 08:15 - 10:00 | MA146 | Distributed Deadlock Detection | L11: Concurrency Control |
| Wednesday Oct 14 | 12:00 | Deadline: GCom project | ||
| Friday Oct 16 | 15:00 | Deadline: Written Exam 3 | ||
| Week 43 | ||||
| Tuesday Oct 20 | 08:15 - 10:00 | MA146 | Project presentations | |
| Friday Oct 23 | 08:15 - 10:00 | MA146 | Project presentations | |
| Week 44 | ||||
| Monday Oct 26 | 09:00 | Publication: Written Exam 4 | ||
| Friday Oct 30 | 12:00 | Deadline: Make-Up Submission Assignment 1 | ||
| Friday Oct 30 | 12:00 | Deadline: Written Exam 4 | ||
| Week 2 (2016) | ||||
| Wednesday Jan 13 | 12:00 | Deadline: Make-Up Exam | ||