Course Calendar

This is a tentative schedule of lectures and due dates. Content for future dates may change.

Monday	Tuesday	Wednesday	Thurday	Friday
Aug 22	Aug 23 Introduction Preparation: Skim MapReduce Lab 1 Assigned	Aug 24	Aug 25 RPC and Threading Models slides Preparation: Do the Online Go Tutorial Do the Lab Setup	Aug 26
Aug 29	Aug 30 SMR for Fault-tolerance Watch the Raft User Study Video	Aug 31	Sep 1 Fault-tolerance: Consensus Preparation: Read Raft Watch the Raft User Study Video Lab 2 Assigned Lab 1 Due	Sep 2
Sep 5 Labor Day	Sep 6 No class	Sep 7	Sep 8 No class	Sep 9
Sep 12	Sep 13 Primary/Backup FS Preparation: Watch GFS Pre-reading Video Read GFS	Sep 14	Sep 15 GFS Continued Preparation: None	Sep 16
Sep 19	Sep 20 Batch Processing: MapReduce Preparation: Read MapReduce Watch Spark Pre-reading Video	Sep 21	Sep 22 Batch Processing: Spark Preparation: Read Spark	Sep 23 Lab 2 Due
Sep 26	Sep 27 Organick Lecture @ 15:50 in WEB 1230	Sep 28	Sep 29 Eventual Consistency Preparation: Read Bayou	Sep 30
Oct 3	Oct 4 Eventual Consistency: Dynamo Preparation: Read Dynamo	Oct 5	Oct 6 More Dynamo	Oct 7
Oct 10 - 14 Fall Break
Oct 17	Oct 18 Review, Data Center Overview, and Dynamo	Oct 19	Oct 20 Distributed Transactions and 2PC	Oct 21
Oct 24	Oct 25 Atomcity: Optimistic Concurrency Control Preparation: Read Thor	Oct 26	Oct 27	Oct 28 Project Proposal Due
Oct 31	Nov 1 Lab 3 Assigned	Nov 2	Nov 3 The Kitchen Sink Preparation: Read Spanner	Nov 4
Nov 7	Nov 8 Election Day Please Vote	Nov 9	Nov 10 In-memory Data at Scale Preparation: Read Memcached at Facebook	Nov 11
Nov 14	Nov 15	Nov 16	Nov 17 Byzantine Fault-Tolerance Preparation: Read PBFT	Nov 18
Nov 21	Nov 22 Lab 3a Due	Nov 23	Nov 24 & 25 Thanksgiving Break
Nov 28	Nov 29 Peer-to-peer: Bitcoin Preparation: Read Bitcoin	Nov 30	Dec 1 Scalability Preparation: Read COST	Dec 2
Dec 5	Dec 6 Deuteronomy/RAMCloud No Reading	Dec 7	Dec 8 Project Report Due	Dec 9 Reading Day
Dec 12 - 16 Finals Final Exam (Final Presentations): Thursday, Dec 15, 2016 15:30 - 17:30 in WEB L102