| August 27 |
Course introduction
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| August 29 |
Virtual computing utilities
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| September 3 |
Clustered Web services, service quality, SLAs
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| September 5 |
Storage utilities, volumes, and end-to-end service quality
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| September 10 |
Service state and availability
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| September 12 |
Atomic state updates in file systems
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| September 17 |
Atomic state updates, snapshots, and mirroring
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| September 19 |
Transactional storage
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| September 24 |
Network File System (NFS)
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| September 26 |
NFS cache consistency and leases
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| October 1 |
Scalable storage systems
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| October 3 |
Scalable storage systems (Frangipani)
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| October 8 |
No class: Fall break.
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| October 10 |
Introduction to consensus and consensus results.
Example: two-phase commit.
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| October 15 |
Visiting speaker (SOSP)
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| October 17 |
Visiting speaker (SOSP)
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| October 22 |
Consensus and highly available services
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| October 24 |
Consensus and highly available services
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| October 29 |
Inside Google services: MapReduce and BigTable
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| October 31 |
Inside Google services: Chubby lock service
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| November 5 |
Asynchronous replication, clocks, and consistency (Bayou)
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| November 7 |
Asynchronous replication, clocks, and consistency (Bayou)
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| November 12 |
Other uses of vector clocks, state machine
model and and causal multicast.
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| November 14 |
Virtual synchrony and group communication
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| November 19 |
Virtual synchrony and group communication
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| November 21 |
No class: Thanksgiving break
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| November 26 |
Consensus and Paxos algorithm
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| November 28 |
Finish Paxos, Byzantine consensus, and course conclusion
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| December 11 |
Final exam, 9:00 AM.
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