You should be sure to be familar with the Official Semester Dates Some of the critical Semester Dates are:
| Monday | Tuesday | Wednesday | Thursday | Friday |
| jan 25 LEC 1: Introduction First day of classes |
jan 26 | jan 27 LEC 2: Use case: MapReduce Preparation: Read MapReduce (2004) (Question) Assigned: Lab 1: MapReduce |
jan 28 | jan 29 |
| feb 1 LEC 3: RPC and Threads, lab rpc code Preparation: (Question) Do the Online Go tutorial |
feb 2 | feb 3 LEC 4: GFS Preparation: Read GFS (2003) (Question) |
feb 4 |
feb 5 DUE: Lab 1: MapReduce |
| feb 8 LEC 5: Fault Tolerance: Raft Preparation: Read Raft (extended) (2014), through Section 5 (Question) Assigned: Lab 2: Raft |
feb 9 |
feb 10 LEC 6: Fault Tolerance: Raft Preparation: Read Raft (extended) (2014), Section 6 to end (Question) |
feb 11 | feb 12 |
| feb 15 Presidents' Day |
feb 16 Hacking day, no lecture |
feb 17 LEC 7: Fault Tolerance: Raft Preparation: Read Raft (extended) (2014) |
feb 18 | feb 19 |
| feb 22 LEC 8: Primary-Backup Replication Preparation: Read Fault-Tolerant Virtual Machines (2010) (Question) |
feb 23 |
feb 24 LEC 9: Zookeeper Preparation: Read ZooKeeper (2010) (Question) |
feb 25 | feb 26 DUE: Lab 2A: Raft |
| mar 1 LEC 10: Optimistic Concurrency Control Preparation: Read Thor (1995) (Question) DROP DATE NO 'W' |
mar 2 |
mar 3 Hacking day, no lecture |
mar 4 |
mar 5 |
| mar 8 LEC 11: Distributed Transactions Preparation: Read Argus (1988)) (Question) |
mar 9 |
mar 10 LEC 12: FaRM Preparation: Read FaRM (2015) (Question) |
mar 11 | mar 12 DUE: Lab 2B: Raft |
| mar 15 Exam 1: Mid-term exam during lecture time Materials: Open book and notes Scope: Lectures 1-12 |
mar 16 | mar 17 LEC 13: Distributed Computing: Relaxed consistency Preparation: Read TreadMarks (1994) (Question) |
mar 18 | mar 19 DUE: Lab 2C: Raft |
| mar 22 LEC 14: Case Studies: Relaxed Consistency Preparation: Read PNUTS (2008) (Question) |
mar 23 | mar 24 LEC 15: Disconnected Operation: Eventual Consistency Preparation: Read Bayou (1995) (Question) |
mar 25 | mar 26 DUE: Lab 2D: Raft |
| mar 29 LEC 16: Measuring Consistency Preparation: Read Existential Consistency (2015) (Question) Assigned: Lab 3: Fault Tolerant K/V Service |
mar 30 | mar 31 Wellness Day |
apr 1 | apr 2 DROP DATE WITH 'W' |
| apr 5 LEC 17: Wide-Area Publish/Subscribe Preparation: Read Wormhole (2015) (Question) |
apr 6 | apr 7 LEC 18: Cluster Management Preparation: Read Borg (2015) (Question) |
apr 8 | apr 9 DUE: Lab 3: KV Raft, Part A |
| apr 12 LEC 19: Case Studies: Spark Preparation: Read Spark (2012) (Question) |
apr 13 | apr 14 LEC 20: Parameter Server Preparation: Read Paremeter Server (2014) (Question) |
apr 15 | apr 16 |
| apr 19 Patriots' Day Assigned: Lab 4: Sharded K/V Raft |
apr 20 | apr 21 LEC 21: Case Studies: Dynamo Preparation: Read Dynamo (2007) (Question) |
apr 22 | apr 23 DUE: Lab 3: KV Raft, Part B |
| apr 26 LEC 22: Peer-to-peer: Trackerless Bittorrent and DHTs Preparation: Read Chord (2001) and Trackerless Bittorrent (2008) (Question) |
apr 27 | apr 28 LEC 23: Bitcoin Preparation: Read Bitcoin: A Peer-to-Peer Electronic Cash System (2008) (Question) |
apr 29 | apr 30 DUE: Lab 4: KV Raft, Part A DUE: Grad project report |