| Brad Karp | |
7.05 MPEB |
| Steve Hailes | s.hailes@cs.ucl.ac.uk | 7.19 MPEB |
UCL Term 1, Weeks 6-16 (2nd October, 2006 - 12th December, 2006)
N.B. that students are responsible for monitoring the detailed calendar below throughout the term to ensure they are up-to-date on meeting times and readings.
Lecture notes will be posted immediately after each lecture.
Each paper appears in the calendar below on the day when it will be covered in lecture. All papers must be read before that lecture!
N.B. that all assigned readings are examinable.
| Monday | Tuesday | Thursday |
2nd Oct 9 - 10 AM: Course Introduction Lecture Notes: 1 - 2 PM: OS Concepts Lecture Notes: |
3rd Oct Design: Worse Is Better; Concurrent I/O Reading: Worse Is Better Lecture Notes: |
5th Oct No Lecture today! |
9th Oct 1 - 2 PM: NFS Readings: NFS Case Study (handed out in hardcopy), Lecture Notes: |
10th Oct RPC and Transparency Lecture Notes: |
12th Oct Ivy: Distributed Shared Memory Reading: Ivy Lecture Notes: |
16th Oct 1 - 2 PM: Ivy (continued) Lecture Notes: |
17th Oct Two-Phase Commit Lecture Notes: |
19th Oct Paxos Reading: Paxos Lecture Notes: |
23rd Oct
1 - 2 PM: Paxos (continued) Lecture Notes: |
24th Oct Bayou: Weak Connectivity and Update Conflicts Reading: Bayou Lecture Notes: |
26th Oct Programming Coursework Background Coursework 1: Distributed Tickertape |
30th Oct 9 - 10 AM: GFS: The Google File System Reading: GFS Lecture Notes: 1 PM - 2 PM: Programming Coursework Background |
Halloween No lecture today! Hacking Day: Work on Programming Coursework! |
2nd November No lecture today! Hacking Day: Work on Programming Coursework! |