Distributed Systems 2023/24 spring

Lectures

• Message board is just available from Monday to Friday
• Video lectures will be recorded and provided to the best of our extent but they are not guaranteed in case (technical) issues are encountered

Zoom link https://ut-ee.zoom.us/j/95567118456?pwd=NEM2SHFNN0hSdDVNUzRYelk3VGp4dz09

Meeting ID: 955 6711 8456 Passcode: ds2021

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

PART1: BASIC

• Lecture 1 (12.02) - Course overview and fundamentals
  • Course overview (Slides)
  • Getting started - 101 Fundamentals (Slides) (Video)
• Lecture 2 (19.02) - Communications: RPC and threads
  • Concurrency and scheduling (Slides) (Video) (Video - demo:rpc) (Video - demo:rypc) (Video - demo:threads)
• Lecture 3 (26.02) - System models
  • Expected behavior and assumptions (Slides) (Video)
• Lecture 4 (04.03) - Time, clocks and ordering of events
  • Computer synchronization and causality (Slides) (Video)

PART2: INTERMEDIATE

• Lecture 5 (11.03) - Logical time algorithms
  • Broadcast algorithms, Lamport and vector clocks (Slides) (Video)
• Lecture 6 (18.03) - Coordination
  • Election algorithms (Slides) (Video)(Video-demo1) (Video-demo2)
• Lecture 7 (25.03) - Replication
  • Quorum (Slides) (Video)
• Lecture 8 (01.04) - Consistency
  • Consistency models (Slides) (Video)
• Lecture 9 (08.04) - Consensus and conflict resolution
  • Raft and Chain replication (Slides) (Video)
• Lecture 10 (15.04) - Distributed transactions
  • ACID, isolation, serializability, and linearizability (Slides) (Video)
• Lecture 11 (22.04) - Modern system architectures
  • From classic (client/server) to explainable and distributed architectures (Slides) (Video)

PART3: ADVANCED

• Lecture 12 (29.04) - Scalability
  • Functional decomposition, partitioning and duplication (Slides) (Video)
• Lecture 13 (06.05) - Monitoring
  • System execution and behavior(Slides) (Video)
• No Lecture (13.05)
• Lecture 14 (20.05) - Distributed ledgers - (Invited lecturer: Dimitris Chatzopoulos, University College Dublin, Ireland)
  • Cryptocurrencies (Slides) (Video)
• Lecture 15 (27.05) - Planning
  • System performance metrics (Slides) (Video)

EVALUATION

Please register in ÕIS for the final/resit exam!

• Final exam - general information: Exams are on-site and closed book. Please register to the exam in õis2.

Dates

• [Completed] June 10 (option 1) - 10:15 (1019) [Results in Moodle]
• [Completed] June 14 (option 2) - 10:15 (1019) [Results in Moodle]
• [Upcoming] June 28 (Resit) - 10:15 [Please register]

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