Schedule

The tentative schedule for the entire semester will be as follows. This schedule is subject to change to account for events such as snow closings. Links to lectures material or labs will become active on the day of each class and other links are currently disabled. Live lectures and recordings are available on the course YouTube Channel https://youtube.com/UMassOS

Event

Date

Description

Course Material
Lecture

02/06/2023
Monday

Lec 01: Introduction
[slides] [notes] [video]
Suggested Readings:
- OS Architectures
- Linus-Tannenbaum debate
Lecture

02/08/2023
Wednesday

Lec 02: System Architectures
[slides] [video] [notes]
Suggested Readings:
- Chord
- CAN DHT
Lecture

02/13/2023
Monday

Lec 03: Communication in distributed systems
[slides] [video] [notes]

Lablet 1 released (Due 2/20, 23:59)
Assignment

02/13/2023
Monday

Lab 1 released!
Lecture

02/15/2023
Wednesday

Lec 04: Remote method invocation
[slides] [video] [notes]
Lecture

02/17/2023
Friday

Lec 05: Concurrency Models
[slides] [video] [notes]

Lablet 2 released (Due 3/10, 23:59)
Lecture

02/22/2023
Wednesday

Lec 06: Sustainable Computing
[slides] [video] [notes]
Lecture

02/27/2023
Monday

Lec 07: Distributed and cluster scheduling
[slides] [video] [notes]
Due

02/27/2023 23:59
Monday

Lab 1 due
Lecture

03/01/2023
Wednesday

Lec 08: Cluster scheduling, Virtualization
[slides] [video] [notes]
Exam

03/03/2023 19:00
Friday

Midterm 1

Location: ILC N151
Topics: Lectures 1 to 7
Lecture

03/06/2023
Monday

Lec 09: OS Virtualization
[slides] [video] [notes]

Lablet 3 released (Due 3/22, 23:59)
Assignment

03/06/2023
Monday

Lab 2 released!
Lecture

03/08/2023
Wednesday

Lec 10: OS Virtualization and Process Migration
[slides] [video] [notes]
Lecture

03/20/2023
Monday

Lec 11: VM/container Migration and Orchestration
[slides] [video] [notes]
Lecture

03/22/2023
Wednesday

Lec 12: Cloud computing, Clock synchronization
[slides] [video] [notes]
Lecture

03/27/2023
Monday

Lec 13: Clock synchronization and Logical clocks
[slides] [video] [notes]
Due

03/27/2023 23:59
Monday

Lab 2 due
Lecture

03/29/2023
Wednesday

Lec 14: Vector clocks and distributed snapshots
[slides] [video] [notes]

Lablet 4 released (Due 4/06, 23:59)
Lecture

04/03/2023
Monday

Lec 15: Leader election, Distributed locks
[slides] [video] [notes]
Lecture

04/05/2023
Wednesday

Lec 16: Distributed transactions
[slides] [video] [notes]
Assignment

04/05/2023
Wednesday

Lab 3 released!
Lecture

04/10/2023
Monday

Lec 17: Consistency models
[slides] [video] [notes]
Lecture

04/12/2023
Wednesday

Lec 18: Replication in distributed systems
[slides] [video] [notes]

Lablet 5 released (Due 4/22, 23:59)
Exam

04/13/2023 19:00
Thursday

Midterm 2

Topics: Lectures 8 to 15
Lecture

04/19/2023
Wednesday

Lec 19: Byzantine Fault Tolerance (BFT)
[slides] [video] [notes]
Lecture

04/24/2023
Monday

Lec 20: Distributed consensus, paxos, RAFT
[slides] [video] [notes]
Lecture

04/26/2023
Wednesday

Lec 21: Distributed web services
[slides] [video] [notes]
Due

04/27/2023 23:59
Thursday

Lab 3 due
Lecture

05/01/2023
Monday

Lec 22: Edge computing, web caching
[slides] [video] [notes]
Lecture

05/03/2023
Wednesday

Lec 23: Distributed file systems
[slides] [video] [notes]
Lecture

05/08/2023
Monday

Lec 24: xFS, Coda, HDFS, GFS
[slides] [video] [notes]
Lecture

05/10/2023
Wednesday

Lec 25: Distributed middleware
[slides] [video] [notes]
Lecture

05/15/2023
Monday

Lec 26: Distributed systems security
[slides] [video] [notes]
Lecture

05/17/2023
Wednesday

Lec 27: Pervasive computing and Multimedia computing
[slides] [video] [notes]
Exam

05/19/2023 13:00
Friday

Final exam

Location: Marcus 131
Topics: Lectures 16 to 27