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

02/03/2025
Monday

Lec 01: Introduction
[slides] [video] [notes]
Readings:
- AST 4th ed, Ch 1.1, 1.2, 1.3
- OS Architectures
- Linus-Tannenbaum debate
Lecture

02/05/2025
Wednesday

Lec 02: System Architectures
[slides] [video] [notes]
Readings:
- AST 4th ed, Ch 2.1, 2.3.1, 2.3.2, 2.4
- Chord
- CAN DHT
Lecture

02/10/2025
Monday

Lec 03: Communication in distributed systems
[slides] [video] [notes]
- AST 4th ed, Ch 4.1, 4.2, 4.3, 8.3
Lecture

02/12/2025
Wednesday

Lec 04: Remote method invocation
[slides] [video] [notes]
- AST 4th ed, Ch 4.1, 4.2, 4.3
- gRPC overview
Assignment

02/14/2025
Friday

Lab 1 released!
Holiday

02/17/2025 13:00
Monday

Presidents Day - No Class
Lecture

02/19/2025
Wednesday

Lec 05: Concurrency Models
[slides] [video] [notes]
- AST 4th ed, Ch 3.1, 3.4
Lecture

02/20/2025
Thursday

Lec 06: Distributed and cluster scheduling
[slides] [video] [notes]
Lecture

02/24/2025
Monday

Lec 07: Virtualization
[slides] [video] [notes]
- AST 4th ed, Ch 3.2, 3.3
Lecture

02/26/2025
Wednesday

Lec 08: OS Virtualization
[slides] [video] [notes]
Lecture

03/03/2025
Monday

Lec 09: Code, Process and VM Migration
[slides] [video] [notes]
- AST 4th ed, Ch 3.5
Due

03/03/2025 23:59
Monday

Lab 1 due
Lecture

03/05/2025
Wednesday

Lec 10: Cloud Computing and Cloud Orchestration
[slides] [video] [notes]
- AST 4th ed, Ch 3.2.4
Assignment

03/06/2025
Thursday

Lab 2 released!
Lecture

03/10/2025
Monday

Lec 11: Clock synchronization
[slides] [video] [notes]
- AST 4th ed, Ch 5.1, 5.2, 5.7
Lecture

03/12/2025
Wednesday

Lec 12: Vector clocks and distributed snapshots
[slides] [video] [notes]
- AST 4th ed, Ch 5.2.2
No Class

03/17/2025 19:00
Monday

Spring Break
No Class

03/19/2025 19:00
Wednesday

Spring Break
Lecture

03/24/2025
Monday

Lec 13: Leader election, Distributed locks
[slides] [video] [notes]
- AST 4th ed, Ch 5.3, 5.4
Lecture

03/26/2025
Wednesday

Lec 14: Sustainable Computing
[slides] [video] [notes]
Exam

03/27/2025 19:00
Thursday

Midterm 1

Location: TBD Topics: Lectures 1 - 13
Lecture

03/31/2025
Monday

Lec 15: Distributed transactions
[slides] [video] [notes]
Lecture

04/02/2025
Wednesday

Lec 16: Consistency models and Replication
[slides] [video] [notes]
- AST 4th ed, Ch 5.5, 7.1, 7.2, 7.3
Due

04/03/2025 23:59
Thursday

Lab 2 due
Lecture

04/07/2025
Monday

Guest lecture
[slides] [video] [notes]
Lecture

04/09/2025
Wednesday

Lec 17: Replication in distributed systems
[slides] [video] [notes]
- AST 4th ed, Ch 7.4, 7.4
Assignment

04/10/2025
Thursday

Lab 3 released!
Lecture

04/14/2025
Monday

Lec 18: Byzantine Fault Tolerance (BFT)
[slides] [video] [notes]
- AST 4th ed, Ch 8
Lecture

04/16/2025
Wednesday

Lec 19: Distributed consensus, paxos, RAFT
[slides] [video] [notes]
- AST 4th ed, Ch 8
Lecture

04/18/2025
Friday

Lec 20: Distributed web services
[slides] [video] [notes]
Holiday

04/21/2025 19:00
Monday

Patriots Day - No Class
Lecture

04/23/2025
Wednesday

Lec 21: Edge computing, web caching
[slides] [video] [notes]
Lecture

04/28/2025
Monday

Lec 22: Distributed file systems
[slides] [video] [notes]
Lecture

04/30/2025
Wednesday

Lec 23: xFS, Coda, HDFS, GFS
[slides] [video] [notes]
Due

05/03/2025 23:59
Saturday

Lab 3 due
Lecture

05/05/2025
Monday

Lec 24: Distributed middleware
[slides] [video] [notes]
Lecture

05/07/2025
Wednesday

Lec 25: Distributed systems security
[slides] [video] [notes]
- AST 4th ed, Ch 9
Exam

05/13/2025 13:00
Tuesday

Final exam

Location: Marcus Hall room 131 Topics: Lectures 1 - 25