Hajussüsteemid 2021/22 kevad

Lectures

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Meeting ID: 955 6711 8456 Passcode: ds2021

Lectures will take place following the (tentative) schedule below.

PART1: BASIC

• Lecture 1 (07.02) - Course overview and fundamentals
  • Course overview (Slides)
  • Introduction to distributed systems (Slides) (Video)
• Lecture 2 (14.02) - RPC and threads
  • Concurrency and scheduling (Slides) (Video) (Video - demo:rpc) (Video - demo:threads)
• Lecture 3 (21.02) - System models
  • Modelling behavior (Slides) (Video)
• Lecture 4 (28.02) - Time, clocks and ordering of events
  • Causality and synchronization (Slides) (Video - part1) (Video - part2)

PART2: INTERMEDIATE

• Lecture 5 (07.03) - Logical time algorithms
  • Broadcast algorithms, Lamport and vector clocks (Slides) (Video)
• Lecture 6 (14.03) - Coordination
  • Election algorithms (Slides) (Video)
  • Mini-project 1 (Description)
• Lecture 7 (21.03) - Replication
  • Quorum (Slides) (Video)
• Lecture 8 (28.03) - Consensus
  • Raft and Chain replication (Slides) (Video)
• Lecture 9 (04.04) - Consistency
  • Consistency models (Slides) (Video)
• Lecture 10 (11.04) - Replica consistency
  • Two (2PC) phase commit protocol (Slides) (Video)
• Lecture 11 (18.04) - Naming - (Lecturer: Mohan Liyanage)
  • Name resolution (Slides) (Video)
  • Mini-project 2 (Description)

PART3: ADVANCED

• Lecture 12 (25.04) - Scalability
  • System architectures, functional decomposition, partitioning and duplication (Slides) (Video)
• Lecture 13 (02.05) - Monitoring
  • System performance metrics (Slides) (Video)
• Lecture 14 (09.05) - (Distributed) Edge computing and intelligence - (Invited lecturer: Xiang Su, University of Oulu, Finland; and NTNU, Norway)
  • Modern system architectures (Slides) (Video)
• Lecture 15 (16.05) - Distributed ledgers - (Invited lecturer: Dimitris Chatzopoulos, University College Dublin, Ireland)
  • Cryptocurrencies (Slides) (Video)
• Lecture 16 (23.05) - Planning
  • System performance models (Slides) (Video)

EVALUATION

Please register in ÕIS for the final/resit exam!

• Final exam - general information: The exam consists of conceptual and practical questions. Conceptual questions are answered online through Moodle (same format as the quizzes), while practical questions are elaborated in written format (Examples). The final exam will take place on-site (Narva mnt 18 - 1021). Exam is answered individually and open book is allowed.
  • Content to be examined (Lectures): 1, 2, 3, 4, 5 ,6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12, 13, and 16 (guests lectures (14,15) are not evaluated)
  • Option1 (May 30)
  • Option2 (June 6)
• The resit exam will take place on-site (Narva mnt 18 - 1022).
  • Resit (June 13) - Exam is fully online (up to 75 questions multiple option) - (10:15 - 12:15)

Starting time: Based on lecture time (sharp 10:15 - as always!)

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