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