Distributed OS: Fall 2008

Welcome to the Distributed Operating Systems (COMP 4000/5102) wiki for Fall 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.

Course Notes

Notes for the lectures & discussions are as follows:

Date	Topic
September 8 & 10, 2008	1. Distributed OS Overview, Origins of the Internet
September 15 & 17, 2008	2. Early RPC & the Alto
September 22 & 24, 2008	3. Distributed Shared Memory (no lecture)
Sept. 29 & Oct. 1, 2008	4. UNIX, Plan9, Inferno
October 6 & 8, 2008	5. NFS, AFS, Sprite FS
October 15, 2008	6. Project topic discussions
October 20 & 22, 2008	7. Google OS
October 27 & 29, 2008	8. Trusted Distributed Storage
November 3 & 5, 2008	9. Untrusted Distributed Storage
November 10 & 12, 2008	10. Distributed Programming Models
November 17 & 19, 2008	11. VM-based Distributed Systems
November 24 & 26, 2008	12. Web Mashups
December 1, 2008	13. Class Review
Dec. 13, 2008, 2 PM	Final Exam & Final Projects Due