Distributed OS: Winter 2008

From Soma-notes

Welcome to the Distributed Operating Systems (COMP 4000/5102) wiki for Winter 2008!

Course Outline

The course outline for COMP 4000/5102 is available here. A backup copy is available here.

Reading Responses

In your reading response, you can reflect on whatever came to mind when reading these papers. The one key requirement is that you demonstrate that you read the papers; however, you have to do so without merely summarizing them! While you may discuss the in-class questions in your response, I'm more interested in your own personal perspective on the readings.

Class Project

Course Notes

Notes for the lectures & discussions are as follows:

Date Topic
January 7 & 9, 2008 0. Distributed OS Overview
January 14 & 16, 2008 1. Early Internet & RPC
January 21 & 23, 2008 2. Locus, V, Mach
January 28 & 30, 2008 3. Sprite, Amoeba, Clouds
February 4 & 6, 2008 4. DSM: IVY
February 11 & 13, 2008 5. DSM Review, NFS, AFS
February 18 & 20, 2008 Winter Break
February 25 & 27, 2008 6. OceanStore & GPFS
March 3 & 5, 2008 7. Bell Labs, project topic discussion Wed.
March 10 & 12, 2008 8. NASD, GoogleFS, Farsite
March 17 & 19, 2008 9. WebOS, PlanetLab, Starfish
March 24 & 26, 2008 10. MapReduce, Globus, BOINC
March 31 & April 2, 2008 Class Review, Future Directions
April 16, 2008 Final Exam (2-4:30 PM) & Final Projects Due