CMPS 290S : Schedule

CMPS 290S: Topics in Computer Systems
Spring 2002: Distributed Systems

Date	Topic	Readings	Due
26 Mar	Introduction to distributed systems	None (lecture)	-
28 Mar	No class (Passover)
2 Apr	Communication mechanisms	"Implementing remote procedure calls" "An efficient implementation of Java's remote method invocation" "Active messages: a mechanism for integrated communication and computation"	-
4 Apr	Process migration & mobile code	"Process Migration" "Agent Tcl..." [optional]: "Exploiting Process Lifetime..."	Project proposal
9 Apr	Naming	"Designing a Global Name Service" "Decentralizing a Global Naming Service..."	-
11 Apr	Naming	"Active Names" "Intentional Naming System" "Locating Objects in Wide-Area Systems"	-
16 Apr	Clocks & logical ordering	See the reading list	-
18 Apr	Synchronization	See the reading list	Bibliography
23 Apr	Consistency, caching & replication	See the reading list	-
25 Apr	Consistency, caching & replication	See the reading list	Project research plan
30 Apr	Fault tolerance & recovery	See the reading list	-
2 May	Fault tolerance & recovery	See the reading list	-
7 May	Security	See the reading list	-
9 May	Special guest: Dr. Jim Gray	See the reading list	-
14 May	Distributed file systems	See the reading list	-
16 May	Distributed file systems	See the reading list	Progress report
21 May	Peer-to-peer systems	See the reading list	-
23 May	Peer-to-peer systems	See the reading list	-
28 May	Class project presentations	-	-
30 May	Class project presentations	-	-
4 Jun	Class project papers due at 5 PM (by email to elm@cs.ucsc.edu)
5 Jun	Final exam due at 11:30 PM (by email to elm@cs.ucsc.edu)

Last modified Sunday, 02-Jun-2002 13:59:18 PDT by Ethan L. Miller (elm@cs.ucsc.edu)