Distributed Computer Systems Engineering
Lecture Notes
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 LEC #  | 
 TOPICS  | 
 HANDOUTS  | 
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 Introduction and O/S review (PDF)  | 
 syscall.c (C) webserver.c (C)  | 
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 I/O concurrency (PDF 1) Event-driven programming (PDF 2)  | 
 events.c (C) webclient.c (C) webclient_libasync.c (C)  | 
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 Event-driven programming (cont.) (PDF)  | 
 arpc.c (C)  | 
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 Network file system (PDF)  | 
 
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 RPC transparency (PDF)  | 
 
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 Crash recovery (PDF)  | 
 
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 Logging (PDF)  | 
 
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 Cache consistency and locking (PDF)  | 
 
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 Memory consistency (PDF)  | 
 
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 First project conferences  | 
 
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 Memory consistency (cont.) (PDF)  | 
 
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 Vector timestamps and version vectors (PDF)  | 
 
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 Two-phase commit (PDF)  | 
 
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 Paxos (PDF)  | 
 
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 Viewstamped replication (PDF)  | 
 
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 Harp (PDF)  | 
 
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 Second project conferences  | 
 
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 Frangipani (PDF)  | 
 
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 Scalable lookup (PDF)  | 
 
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 Wide-area storage  | 
 
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 Hacking day (no class)  | 
 
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 Project demonstrations  | 
 
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 Content distribution  | 
 
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 Distributed computing  | 
 
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Labs
Laboratory Assignments
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 LABS  | 
 TOPICS  | 
 SUPPORTING FILES  | 
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 0  | 
 Getting started (PDF)  | 
 
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 Lock server (PDF)  | 
 lab-1.zip (ZIP) (The ZIP file contains: 5 .c files, 2 .h files, 1 Makefile, and 1 .x file.)  | 
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 Basic file server (PDF)  | 
 lab-2.zip (ZIP) (The ZIP file contains: 5 .c files, 3 .h files, 2 .x files, 1 .pl file, and 1 Makefile.)  | 
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 File server: Reading, writing, and sharing files (PDF)  | 
 lab-3.zip (ZIP) (The ZIP file contains: test-lab-3.pl.)  | 
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 MKDIR, REMOVE, and locking (PDF)  | 
 lab-4.zip (ZIP) (The ZIP file contains: 6 .c files, 3 .h files, 2 .x files, 1 Makefile, and 1 .pl file.)  | 
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 Cache consistency (PDF)  | 
 
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Exams
Previous Exams
Quiz 1 (PDF)
Quiz 2 (PDF)
                                                                                                                        
 
