Course schedule (tentative)
| Date | Time | Location | Reading | Topic |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Week 44 | ||||
| Tuesday Oct 31 | 13:15 - 15:00 | MC333 | Course Info, L1: Introduction (P-O) | |
| Friday Nov 03 | 13:15 - 15:00 | MC333 | L2: Building Blocks (P-O) | |
| Week 45 | ||||
| Tuesday Nov 07 | 13:15 - 15:00 | MC333 | Thinking Clearly About Performance | L3: Performance (P-O) |
| Tuesday Nov 07 | 15:15 - 17:00 | MA416 MA426 |
T1: Lab (Adam) | |
| Friday Nov 10 | 13:15 - 15:00 | MC333 | Written Exam 1 (covering module 1) | |
| Week 46 | ||||
| Tuesday Nov 14 | 13:15 - 15:00 | MC333 | L4: Time and Global States (Adam) | |
| Friday Nov 17 | 13:15 - 15:00 | MA136 | L5: Mutual Exclusions and Elections (Ewnetu) | |
| Friday Nov 17 | 12:00 | Deadline: Assignment 1 | ||
| Week 47 | ||||
| Tuesday Nov 21 | 13:15 - 15:00 | MC333 | L6: Group Communication (Ewnetu) | |
| Wednesday Nov 22 | 13:15 - 15:00 | MA416 MA426 |
T2: Tutorial Group Communication GCom (Adam) | |
| Friday Nov 24 | 13:15 - 15:00 | MC333 | Paxos Made Simple | L7: Distributed Agreements (Adam) |
| Week 48 | ||||
| Tuesday Nov 28 | 13:15 - 15:00 | MC333 | Written Exam 2 (covering module 2) | |
| Friday Dec 1 | 13:15 - 15:00 | MC333 | Understanding replication in databases and distributed systems (Page 1-11, the rest is extensive reading) | L8: Replication (Jonny) |
| Week 49 | ||||
| Tuesday Dec 05 | 13:15 - 15:00 | MC333 | CAP Twelve Years Later: How the “Rules” Have Changed | L9: Consistency (Jonny) |
| Friday Dec 08 | 13:15 - 15:00 | MC333 | Three-Phase Commit Protocol | L10: Transactions (Jonny) |
| Week 50 | ||||
| Tuesday Dec 12 | 13:15 - 15:00 | MC333 | Distributed Deadlock Detection | L11: Concurrency Control (Jonny) |
| Friday Dec 15 | 13:15 - 15:00 | MC333 | Written Exam 3 (covering module 3) | |
| Week 51 | ||||
| Wednesday Dec 20 | 12:00 | Soft deadline: GCom project | ||
| Thursday Dec 21 | 09:15 - 16:00 | TBA | Project presentations | |
| Week 2 | ||||
| Monday Jan 8 | 12:00 | Hard deadline: GCom project | ||
| Tuesday Jan 9 | 09:15 - 16:00 | TBA | Project presentations | |
| Thursday Jan 11 | 13:00 - 13:45 | MC333 | Written Exam 1 (covering module 1) | |
| Thursday Jan 11 | 13:50 - 15:20 | MC333 | Written Exam 2 (covering module 2) | |
| Thursday Jan 11 | 15:30 - 17:00 | MC333 | Written Exam 3 (covering module 3) | |