Distributed OS: Winter 2015

From Soma-notes

Course Outline

Here is the course outline. It should see only minor modifications during the semester.

Topics

Early Systems (Jan. 12)

The Early Internet:

The Alto:

The Mother of All Demos:

Early Efforts (Jan. 19)

(not finalized)

Changing the Process Model

The Early Web

Plan 9

AFS

GFS and Ceph

Chubby

Oceanstore

Farsite

Public Resource Computing

  • Anderson et al., "SETI@home: An Experiment in Public-Resource Computing" (CACM 2002) (DOI) (Proxy)
  • Anderson, "BOINC: A System for Public-Resource Computing and Storage" (Grid Computing 2004) (DOI) (Proxy)

Distributed Hash Tables

Structured Data

Specialized Storage

Computational Models

Literature Review Help

Notes

Date

Topic

Jan. 5

Session 1

Jan. 12

Session 2

Jan. 19

Session 3

Jan. 26

Session 4

Feb. 2

Session 5

Feb. 9

Session 6

Feb. 23

Session 7

Mar. 2

Session 8

Mar. 9

Session 9

Mar. 16

Session 10

Mar. 23

Session 11

Mar. 30

Session 12

Apr. 6

Final Project Presentations

TBA

Final Exam