TCSS 558:
Applied Distributed Computing

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Instructor

 Lecture Location
Wes Lloyd
Office: Cherry Parkes, Room 229
Office Hours: Thur 4-5pm, or by appointment
E-mail: wlloyd <@> uw.edu
Tel: (253) 692-5681

Winter Quarter 2020
TR (1:30 - 3:30 PM)
Dou 270
Readings from Distributed Systems book by Maarten van Steen and Andrew Tanenbaum [Version 3.X] Softcover edition, Online edition. Pearson Education [ST]

Additional References (Optional)

(1) George Coulouris, Jean Dollimore, et al. Distributed Systems: Concepts and Design, 5th Edition, Pearson, 2011. [CD]

Source Code Examples

Source code for examples from class are posted [HERE].

Schedule

Key chapters covered in the course are denoted below with underlines and italics:
Schedule is subject to change.

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Week Dates Topics Assignments Chapters
1 Jan 7, 9 Intro, Distributed System Design Goals
Lecture 1 (2-up) (1/7)

Distributed System Design Goals, Types of Distributed Systems
 Lecture 2 (2-up) (1/9)
 Ch 1 [ST]
[CD]
2 Jan 14, 16 Types of Distributed Systems, Assignment #0
Lecture 3 (2-up) (1/14)

Architectural Styles
Lecture 4 (2-up) (1/16)
 A0 1/14 Ch 1 [ST]
[CD]
3 Jan 21, 23 Middleware, System Architectures
Lecture 5 (2-up) (1/21)

System Architectures
Lecture 6 (2-up) (1/23)
 Ch 2 [ST]
[CD]
4 Jan 28, 30 Processes, Threads
Lecture 7 (2-up) (1/28)

Threads, Virtualization, Clients
Lecture 8 (2-up) (1/30)
 A1 TBA Ch 2, 3 [ST]
[CD]
5 Feb 4, 6 Clients, Servers
Lecture 9 (2-up) (2/4)

Servers, Code/Process Migration
Lecture 10 (2-up) (2/6)
 Ch 3 [ST]
[CD]
6 Feb 11, 13 Code/Process Migration, Review, Practice Midterm
Lecture 11 (2-up) (2/11)

Communication, RPC, TPC, UDP
Lecture 12 (2-up) (2/13)
 Ch 1,2,3,4,6 [ST]
[CD]
7 Feb 18, 20 Midterm (2/18)

Message Queueing Systems, IP Multicasting
Lecture 13 (2-up) (2/20)
 A2 TBA

Ch 4 [ST]
[CD]
8 Feb 25, 27 Message Queueing Systems, IP Multicasting, Clock Synchronization
Lecture 14 (2-up) (2/25)

Logical Clocks, Vector Clocks
Lecture 15 (2-up) (2/27)
 Ch 4, 6[ST]
[CD]
9 Mar 3, 5 Vector Clocks, Distributed Mutual Exclusion
Lecture 16 (2-up) (3/3)

Distributed Mutual Exclusion, Election Algorithms
Lecture 17 (2-up) (3/5)
 A3 TBA Ch 6 - [ST]
[CD]
10 Mar 10, 12 ONLINE CLASS: Assignment 2 Q&A
Lecture 18 (2-up) (3/10)

ONLINE CLASS: Election Algorithms, Review
Lecture 19 (2-up) (3/12)
 Ch 6, RAFT Paper [ST]
[CD]
Final Mar 17 Final Exam (3/17)