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 20 Martin Luther King Jr. Day |
jan 21 | jan 22 LEC 1: Introduction First day of classes |
jan 23 | jan 24 LEC 2: Use case: MapReduce Preparation: Read MapReduce (2004) (Question) Assigned: Lab 1: MapReduce |
| jan 27 Hacking day, no lecture | jan 28 | jan 29 LEC 3: RPC and Threads, lab rpc code Do the Online Go tutorial |
jan 30 |
jan 31 LEC 4: GFS Preparation: Read GFS (2003) (Question) DUE: Lab 1: MapReduce |
| feb 3 LEC 5: Fault Tolerance: Raft Preparation: Read Raft (extended) (2014), through Section 5 (Question) Assigned: Lab 2: Raft |
feb 4 |
feb 5 Hacking day, no lecture |
feb 6 | feb 7 LEC 6: Fault Tolerance: Raft Preparation: Read Raft (extended) (2014), through Section 5 (Question) |
| feb 10 LEC 7: Fault Tolerance: Raft Preparation: Read Raft (extended) (2014), Section 6 to end (Question) | feb 11 |
feb 12 LEC 8: Primary-Backup Replication Preparation: Read Fault-Tolerant Virtual Machines (2010) (Question) |
feb 13 | feb 14 Hacking day, no lecture DUE: Lab 2A: Raft |
| feb 17 Presidents' Day |
feb 18 Hacking day, no lecture |
feb 19 LEC 9: Zookeeper Preparation: Read ZooKeeper (2010) (Question) |
feb 20 | feb 21 Hacking day, no lecture DUE: Lab 2B: Raft |
| feb 24 LEC 10: Optimistic Concurrency Control Preparation: Read Thor (1995) (Question) DROP DATE NO 'W' |
feb 25 |
feb 26 LEC 11: Distributed Transactions Preparation: Read Argus (1988)) (Question) |
feb 27 |
feb 28 Hacking day, no lecture DUE: Lab 2C: Raft |
| mar 2 LEC 12: FaRM Preparation: Read FaRM (2015) (Question) |
mar 3 |
mar 4 Exam 1: Mid-term exam during lecture time Materials: Open book and notes Scope: Lectures 1-12 |
mar 5 | mar 6 LEC 12: FaRM (cont'd) Preparation: Read FaRM (2015) DUE: Grad Project proposal |
| mar 9 Spring Recess |
mar 10 Spring Recess |
mar 11 Spring Recess |
mar 12 Spring Recess |
mar 13 Spring Recess |
| mar 16 LEC 13: Distributed Computing: Relaxed consistency Preparation: Read TreadMarks (1994) (Question) Assigned: Lab 3: Fault Tolerant K/V Service |
mar 17 |
mar 18 LEC 14: Case Studies: Relaxed Consistency Preparation: Read PNUTS (2008) (Question) |
mar 19 | mar 20 LEC 15: Case Studies: Relaxed Consistency Preparation: Read PNUTS (2008) |
| mar 23 LEC 16: Disconnected Operation: Eventual Consistency Preparation: Read Bayou (1995) (Question) |
mar 24 | mar 25 LEC 17: Measuring Consistency Preparation: Read Existential Consistency (2015) (Question) |
mar 26 | mar 27 LEC 18: Measuring Consistency Preparation: Read Existential Consistency (2015) |
| mar 30 LEC 19: Wide-Area Publish/Subscribe Preparation: Read Wormhole (2015) (Question) |
mar 31 | apr 1 LEC 20: Cluster Management Preparation: Read Borg (2015) (Question) |
apr 2 | apr 3 Hacking day, no lecture DROP DATE WITH 'W' |
| apr 6 LEC 21: Case Studies: Spark Preparation: Read Spark (2012) (Question) Assigned: BONUS: Lab 4: Sharded Key/Value Service |
apr 7 | apr 8 LEC 22: Case Studies: Naiad Preparation: Read Naiad (2013) (Question) |
apr 9 | apr 10 LEC 23: Parameter Server Preparation: Read Paremeter Server (2014) (Question) |
| apr 13 LEC 24: Case Studies: Ray Preparation: Read Ray (2018) (Question) |
apr 14 | apr 15 LEC 25: Case Studies: Dynamo Preparation: Read Dynamo (2007) (Question) |
apr 16 | apr 17 LEC 26: Case Studies: Dynamo Preparation: Read Dynamo (2007) |
| apr 20 Patriots' Day |
apr 21 | apr 22 LEC 27: Peer-to-peer: Trackerless Bittorrent and DHTs Preparation: Read Chord (2001) and Trackerless Bittorrent (2008) (Question) |
apr 23 | apr 24 LEC 28: Bitcoin Preparation: Read Bitcoin: A Peer-to-Peer Electronic Cash System (2008) (Question) |
| apr 27 LEC 29: Serverless Computing Preparation: Read Cloud Programming Simplified: A Berkeley View on Serverless Computing |
apr 28 | apr 29
LEC 30: Summary and QA |
apr 30 |
may 1 DUE: Grad project report DUE: Lab 3 DUE: Lab 4 |