Week 1

• Tuesday, March 29, 2015 (Intro and Administrivia)
• Thursday, March 31, 2015 (Networking in a Day)

Week 2

• Tuesday, April 5, 2016 (Higher-level communication: RPC and RMI)
• Thursday, April 7, 2016 (Physical Time, Logical Time, Causality, Vector Time)

Week 3

• Tuesday, April 12, 2016 (Distributed Concurrency Control)
• Thursday, April 14, 2016 (Coordinator Election)

Week 4

• Thursday, April 19, 2016 (Replication: Quorums and Best-Effort, CVVs)
• Tuesday, April 21, 2016 (Transactions, ACID, 2PC, 2PL, Serializability)

Week 5

• Tuesday, April 26, 2016 (Realizing Limits: BASE, Armies and Generals, CAP)
• Thursday, April 28, 2016 (Real World Example: Paxos, Chubby, and possibly Raft)

Week 6

• Tuesday, May 3, 2016 (Midterm Exam)
• Thursday, May 5, 2016 (Processor Allocation and Process Migration; HTCondor and TORQUE, in brief)

Week 7

• Tuesday, May 10, 2016 (Recovery: Checkpointing and Logging)
• Thursday, May 12, 2016 (Distributed File Systems: Posix-like and Special-Purpose)

Week 8

• Tuesday, May 17, 2016 (Map-Reduce/Hadoop, Overview)
• Thursday, May 19, 2016 (Map-Reduce/Hadoop, Algorithms)

Week 9

• Tuesday, May 24, 2016 (Anonymous Communication, Onion Routing, Tor; Peer-to-Peer, Distributed Hashing, etc)
• Thursday, May 26, 2016 (NoSQL Databases: The Principles Behind Cassandra, HBase, Dynamo, etc.)

Week 10

• Tuesday, May 31, 2016 (Intro to Cryptography) [ppt]
• Thursday, June 2, 2016 (Authentication, Key-Distribution and Management [ppt]

Final Exams

• Tuesday, June 7, 2016 (Final Exam: 7:00-10:0pm in CENTR 212)