147a Schedule: Spring 2012

Mon/Wed, 2pm-3:20pm, Volen-101 (or Abelson 239 if needed)

Here is the tentative schedule for lectures, quizes (lab deadlines TBD). All information is subject to change.

	Monday	Wednesday	Due
	16 jan	18 jan LEC 1: Distributed Systems/Lab Preparation:  Read Frangipani
	23 jan LEC 2: Infrastructure: Implementing RPCs Preparation: Read Implementing Remote Procedure Call (see question in Latte) ) . Skim Frangipani . Tutorial: C++	25 jan LEC 3: Infrastructure: Programming with Threads Preparation: Read Threads in C# ( See the question in Latte) Tutorial: C++ RPC Code Walk Through
	30 jan LEC 4: Distributed Programming: Remote Objects Preparation: Read Java Remote Method Invocation (See the question in Latte)	1 feb LEC 5: Distributed programming :MapReduce and Dryad Preparation: Dryad and DryadLINQ(See the question in Latte)	ADD/DROP DATE: 29 jan
	6 feb LEC 6: Consistency: Sequential Consistency Preparation: Read Shared Virtual Memory (See the question in Latte)	8 feb LEC 7: Consistency: Relaxed Consistecy Preparation: Read TreadMarks (See the question in Latte)
	13 feb LEC 8: Consistency: Timestamps and version vectors Preparation: Read Tra (See the question in Latte)	15 feb LEC 9: Consistency: Eventual Consistency Preparation: Read Bayou (See the question in Latte)
	20 feb Midterm Recess	22 feb Midterm Recess
25 feb	27 feb LEC 10: Fault Tolerance: Crash Recovery and Logging Preparation: Read Cedar (See the question in Latten)	29 feb LEC 11: Fault Tolerance: Two phase Commit Preparation: Read Argus (See the question in Latte)
3 mar	5 mar Quiz 1 Lectures 1-10	7 mar LEC 12 Fault Tolerance: Replicated State Machines Preparation: Read Hypervisor (See the questio in Latte)	Due: Midterm grades
	12 mar LEC 13: Fault Tolerance: Concensus Preparation: Read Paxos (See the question in Latte)	14 mar LEC 14: Case Studies: Frangipani Preparation: Read Frangipani (See the question in Latte)
	19 mar LEC 15:  Case studies: Replicated File Systems Preparation: Read Harp (See the question in Latte)	21 mar Usenix PC No Lecture: Hacking Day
	26 mar  : Winter school  No Lecture: Hacking Day	28 mar Winter School No Lecture Hacking Day
	2 apr LEC 16: Case Studies: Relaxed Consistency Preparation: Read PNUTS (See the question in Latte)	4 apr LEC 17: Security: Byzantine Fault Tolerance Preparation: Read Practical BFT (See the question in Latte)
	8 april Passover	11 apr Passover
	16 apr LEC 18: Security: Untrusted Servers Preparation: Read SUNDR (See the question in Latte)	18 apr LEC 19: Social Networks Preparation: Read TBD
	23 apr LEC 20: CrowdSourcing Preparation: Read TBD	25 apr LEC 21: Review Scope: Lectures 11-20 Preparation Study guide
28 apr	30 apr: Last class: Quiz 2

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