Distributed Operating Systems: Lecture notes, handouts and schedule

Date		Lecture	Topic	Assignment
Wed	Jan 23	1	Introduction [ audio video notes ]	AST Chapter 1 Quiz 1 on moodle.
Mon	Jan 28	2	System Architectures [ audio video screencast notes ]	AST Chapter 2
Wed	Jan 30	3	Processes and Threads [ audio screencast video notes ]	AST Chapter 3; Quiz 2 on moodle.
				additional reading for Ch1: Tanenbaum on ukernels
Mon	Feb 4	4	Distributed Scheduling [ audio screencast video notes ]	AST Chapter 3;
Wed	Feb 6	5	Virtualization [ audio video screencast notes ]	AST Chapter 3; Quiz 3 on moodle.
Mon	Feb 11	6	Process and code migration [ audio video screencast notes ]	AST Chapter 3
				Homework 1 (Due: Feb 19)
Wed	Feb 13	7	Server design [ audio video screencast notes ]
Tue	Feb 19	8	Remote Procedure Calls [ audio video screencast notes ]	AST Ch4; Virtual Monday
Wed	Feb 20	9	Remote Method Invocation [ audio video screencast notes ]	AST Ch 4; Lab 1 handed out
Mon	Feb 25	10	Stream-oriented Communication [ audio video (no screencast) notes ]	AST Ch4;
Wed	Feb 27	11	Naming [ audio video screencast notes ]	AST Ch5;
Mon	Mar 4	12	Clock Syncronization [ audio video screencast notes ]	AST Ch 6
Wed	Mar 6	13	Logical Clocks [ audio video screencast notes ]	AST Ch 6; Homework 2 (Due: Mar 15)
Mon	Mar 11	14	Leader election and mutual exclusion [ audio video screencast notes ]	AST Ch 6
Wed	Mar 13	15	Distributed transactions [ audio video screencast notes ]	AST Ch 7
Mon	Mar 25	16	Consistency and Replication [ audio video screencast notes ]	AST Ch 7 Lab 2 handed out
Wed	Mar 27	17	Conistency Implementation [ audio video screencast notes ]	AST Ch 7
Mon	Apr 1	18	Fault Tolerance [ audio video screencast notes ]	AST Ch 8
Wed	April 3		Midterm Exam, CS Bldg, room 142, 19:00-21:00hrs
Mon	April 8	19	Data Centers and Cloud Computing [ audio video screencast notes ]	Special topics
Wed	April 10	20	World Wide Web [ audio video screencast notes ]
Mon	April 15		No Class- Patriots Day	Cloud Computing Homework
				Lab 3 handed out.
Wed	April 17	21	Guest lec: Green Computing [ audio video screencast notes ]
Mon	April 22	22	Guest lec: Multimedia Streaming [ audio video screencast notes ]
Wed	April 24	23	Distributed file systems [ audio video screencast notes ]	Ch. 11
Mon	April 29	24	Distributed systems security [ audio video screencast notes]	Ch. 9
Wed	May 1	25	Distributed middleware [ audio video screencast notes ]	Ch. 10
Fri	May 3		Take-home Final Exam (available now, due noon, May 4)