Distributed Computing Systems (Fall 2013)

• Piazza Discussion Forum 

Lectures:

• 03-09-2013 Week01: Introduction

• 09-09-2013 Week02: Cloud Computing 

• 16-09-2013 Week03: MapReduce

• 23-09-2013 Week04: Clock Synchronization

• 30-09-2013 Week05: Consistency and Replication

• 07-10-2013 Week06: Fault Tolerance

• 22-10-2013 Week 07: Distributed File System

• 29-10-2013 Midterm Exam

• 05-11-2013 Week 09: Distributed Web-based Systems

• 12-11-2013 Week 10: Write Publish and Present a Research Paper

• 19-11-2013 Week 11: NoSQL Systems

• 26-11-2013 Week 12: P2P Systems

• 02-12-2013 Week 13: Distributed Hash Table

• 07-12-2013 Makeup: Resource Management of Cloud Hosted Applications

• 13-12-2013 Week 14: Distributed Coordination-based System

• 20-12-2013 Week 15: Big Data

Assignments:

Presentations: 

Papers List for Presentations: 

1. SPORC: Group Collaboration using Untrusted Cloud Resources (OSDI 2010)

2. Finding a Needle in Haystack: Facebook's Photo Storage (OSDI, 2010)

3. Making Geo-Replicated Systems Fast as Possible, Consistent when Necessary (OSDI 2012)

4. SILT: A Memory-Efficient, High-Performance Key-Value Store (SOSP 2011)

5. CryptDB: Protecting Confidentiality with Encrypted Query Processing (SOSP 2011)

6. Hails: Protecting Data Privacy in Untrusted Web Applications (OSDI 2012)

7. Resilient Distributed Datasets: A fault-tolerant abstraction for in-memory cluster computing (NSDI 2012)

8. DryadLINQ: A System for General-Purpose Distributed Data-Parallel Computing Using a High-Level Language (OSDI 2008)

9. Scalable Progressive Analytics on Big Data in the Cloud  (VLDB 2014)

10. When the Network Crumbles: An Empirical Study of Cloud Network Failures and their Impact on Services (SoCC 13)

11. Scale-up vs Scale-out for Hadoop: Time to rethink? (SoCC 13)

12. An analysis of Facebook photo caching (SOSP 2013)

13. Diglossia: Detecting Code Injection Attacks with Precision and Efficiency (ACM CCS2013)

14. Tolerating Business Failures in Hosted Applications (SoCC 2013)

15. Consistency-based service level agreements for cloud storage (SOSP 2013)

16. Speedy transactions in multicore in-memory databases (SOSP 2013)

17. Virtual Network Diagnosis as a Service (SoCC 2013)

18. Spanner: Google’s Globally-Distributed Database (OSDI 2012)

Credit:

The course contains content from the following Distributed Systems courses taught at:

• CMU [15-440] by David Anderson

• Columbia [W4995-2] by Roxana Geambasu

• UCSD [223B] by Alex C. Snoeren

Instructor: Waheed Iqbal; Faculty Office Room 10; Email: waheed751 at gmail.com.

Lectures: Tuesday 7:30-9:00 Room F-01, Thursday 6:00-7:30 Room F-01.

Textbooks: No mandatory text is required for this course however "Distributed Systems: Principles & Paradigms by Tanenbaum and Steen" may help to grasp the basic concepts